Nebraska presidential election results 2016

Donald J. Trump carried Nebraska by 25.05 points (211,467 votes), winning 2 of its 5 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 5
Votes counted: 844,227
NE result: R+25.1
Compared with the nation: 27.1 pts more Republican
Swing since 2012: 3.3 pts to R

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
Donald J. Trump	Republican	495,961	58.70%	2
Hillary Clinton	Democratic	284,494	33.70%	—
Gary Johnson	Libertarian	38,946	4.60%	—
Total votes		844,227

Nebraska CD-1

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
Donald J. Trump	Republican	158,626	56.20%	1
Hillary Clinton	Democratic	100,126	35.50%	—
Gary Johnson	Libertarian	14,031	5.00%	—
Total votes		282,338

Nebraska CD-2

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
Donald J. Trump	Republican	137,564	47.20%	1
Hillary Clinton	Democratic	131,030	44.90%	—
Gary Johnson	Libertarian	13,245	4.50%	—
Total votes		291,680

Nebraska CD-3

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
Donald J. Trump	Republican	199,657	73.90%	1
Hillary Clinton	Democratic	53,290	19.70%	—
Gary Johnson	Libertarian	11,657	4.30%	—
Total votes		270,109

Nebraska gives two electoral votes to the statewide winner and one to the winner of each congressional district.

Sources: ne.pdf · 2016

County resultsCertified

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Nebraska Secretary of State, Official Results of Nebraska General Election November 8, 2016 (canvass book, 59 pages): President and Vice President of the United States by county (pages 9-10)
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All 4 tickets as printed in the document

Ticket (as printed)	Code	Votes	Share
Donald J. Trump & Michael R. Pence (Republican)	Republican	495,961	59.89%
Hillary Clinton & Tim Kaine (Democratic)	Democratic	284,494	34.35%
Gary Johnson & Bill Weld (Libertarian)	Libertarian	38,946	4.70%
Jill Stein & Ajamu Baraka (By Petition)	By Petition	8,775	1.06%
Write-in / scattering		16,051

Each county coloured by its winner and shaded by margin. Tap one for its history.

County	Donald J. Trump	Hillary Clinton	Gary Johnson	Jill Stein & Ajamu Baraka	Total	Margin
Adams	9,287	3,302	594	111	13,294	45.0
Antelope	2,732	383	105	19	3,239	72.5
Arthur	244	17	11	0	272	83.5
Banner	357	19	14	3	393	86.0
Blaine	276	30	10	0	316	77.8
Boone	2,299	414	137	17	2,867	65.7
Box Butte	3,617	965	230	36	4,848	54.7
Boyd	983	128	23	13	1,147	74.5
Brown	1,385	153	39	7	1,584	77.8
Buffalo	14,569	4,763	1,174	227	20,733	47.3
Burt	2,367	930	197	39	3,533	40.7
Butler	3,079	691	129	27	3,926	60.8
Cass	8,452	3,484	639	132	12,707	39.1
Cedar	3,532	571	224	31	4,358	67.9
Chase	1,648	171	54	6	1,879	78.6
Cherry	2,623	317	127	15	3,082	74.8
Cheyenne	3,665	711	213	46	4,635	63.7
Clay	2,422	477	116	15	3,030	64.2
Colfax	2,171	859	118	26	3,174	41.3
Cuming	3,122	719	157	26	4,024	59.7
Custer	4,695	641	206	37	5,579	72.7
Dakota	3,616	2,314	229	50	6,209	21.0
Dawes	2,632	801	191	52	3,676	49.8
Dawson	5,984	2,136	381	58	8,559	45.0
Deuel	809	120	47	1	977	70.5
Dixon	2,041	556	130	17	2,744	54.1
Dodge	9,933	4,544	624	162	15,263	35.3
Douglas	108,077	113,798	10,402	2,882	235,159	2.4
Dundy	823	89	31	6	949	77.3
Fillmore	2,130	613	151	21	2,915	52.0
Franklin	1,347	250	54	7	1,658	66.2
Frontier	1,110	161	36	8	1,315	72.2
Furnas	1,921	304	85	11	2,321	69.7
Gage	6,380	2,935	492	104	9,911	34.8
Garden	869	153	39	2	1,063	67.4
Garfield	821	121	23	5	970	72.2
Gosper	794	166	38	6	1,004	62.5
Grant	367	20	6	1	394	88.1
Greeley	912	210	38	6	1,166	60.2
Hall	14,408	6,282	895	192	21,777	37.3
Hamilton	3,783	878	224	43	4,928	58.9
Harlan	1,496	254	62	7	1,819	68.3
Hayes	472	30	8	1	511	86.5
Hitchcock	1,232	161	61	7	1,461	73.3
Holt	4,354	531	162	27	5,074	75.3
Hooker	355	40	16	3	414	76.1
Howard	2,284	544	108	22	2,958	58.8
Jefferson	2,399	837	182	30	3,448	45.3
Johnson	1,355	563	122	22	2,062	38.4
Kearney	2,531	550	148	26	3,255	60.9
Keith	3,235	571	164	25	3,995	66.7
Keya Paha	460	40	17	0	517	81.2
Kimball	1,330	230	78	18	1,656	66.4
Knox	3,188	720	137	29	4,074	60.6
Lancaster	61,588	61,898	7,109	1,974	132,569	0.2
Lincoln	12,164	2,913	711	107	15,895	58.2
Logan	400	32	18	1	451	81.6
Loup	323	48	10	1	382	72.0
Madison	10,628	2,711	669	126	14,134	56.0
McPherson	257	14	14	1	286	85.0
Merrick	2,926	602	165	29	3,722	62.4
Morrill	1,802	284	84	14	2,184	69.5
Nance	1,261	281	48	14	1,604	61.1
Nemaha	2,116	785	180	27	3,108	42.8
Nuckolls	1,726	353	88	20	2,187	62.8
Otoe	4,860	2,025	375	58	7,318	38.7
Pawnee	974	279	55	10	1,318	52.7
Perkins	1,217	161	54	5	1,437	73.5
Phelps	3,849	572	190	18	4,629	70.8
Pierce	3,052	382	125	21	3,580	74.6
Platte	10,965	2,646	495	86	14,192	58.6
Polk	2,028	413	102	6	2,549	63.4
Red Willow	4,258	645	191	26	5,120	70.6
Richardson	2,769	818	159	27	3,773	51.7
Rock	687	70	33	4	794	77.7
Saline	3,004	1,733	284	52	5,073	25.1
Sarpy	45,143	28,033	4,682	836	78,694	21.7
Saunders	7,555	2,523	515	97	10,690	47.1
Scotts Bluff	10,076	3,207	683	126	14,092	48.7
Seward	5,454	1,875	337	84	7,750	46.2
Sheridan	2,211	287	70	18	2,586	74.4
Sherman	1,150	340	59	13	1,562	51.9
Sioux	616	81	28	4	729	73.4
Stanton	2,187	417	144	14	2,762	64.1
Thayer	2,051	499	124	10	2,684	57.8
Thomas	344	30	10	3	387	81.1
Thurston	1,043	919	56	49	2,067	6.0
Valley	1,780	339	53	12	2,184	66.0
Washington	7,424	2,623	513	97	10,657	45.1
Wayne	2,693	835	202	35	3,765	49.3
Webster	1,330	306	51	10	1,697	60.3
Wheeler	377	62	17	4	460	68.5
York	4,700	1,186	345	52	6,283	55.9

Candidate votes as printed in the document. “Total” is the document’s total where it prints one, otherwise the sum of the candidate columns. Margin is the leading ticket’s lead in points over the second.

Notes on how this document was read

Column headers are printed over four lines (names, running mates, party); joined as listed in columns.

Method: text layer: words grouped by baseline (pdfplumber), numeric tokens taken as the row's values under the spec's column labels; each row's digits matched against PyMuPDF's words (second extraction)

Congressional district resultsCertified

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Nebraska Secretary of State, canvass book 2016: President and Vice President, Results by Congressional District (pages 11-12), the Total line of each district
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Congressional district	Donald J. Trump & Michael R. Pence	Hillary Clinton & Tim Kaine	Gary Johnson & Bill Weld	Jill Stein & Ajamu Baraka	Total	Margin
Cd-1	158,626	100,126	14,031	3,374	276,157	21.2
Cd-2	137,564	131,030	13,245	3,347	285,186	2.3
Cd-3	199,657	53,290	11,657	2,054	266,658	54.9

Notes on how this document was read

One row per congressional district (the district's Total line); the county rows under each district are in the document.

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Questions and answers

Who won Nebraska in 2016?

Donald J. Trump won Nebraska by 25.05 percentage points (211,467 votes).

How many electoral votes did Nebraska have in 2016?

Nebraska cast 5 electoral votes in 2016.

How many people voted for president in Nebraska in 2016?

844,227 votes were counted for president.

How many counties did each candidate win in Nebraska in 2016?

Donald J. Trump 91, Hillary Clinton 2 (out of 93 counties with results).

How did Nebraska change from 2012 to 2016?

The margin moved 3.3 points toward the Republican ticket, from Republican by 21.8 points to Republican by 25.1 points.

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