Political party strength in Nebraska
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Nebraska (including its time as a territory):
- Governor
- Lieutenant Governor
- Secretary of State
- Attorney General
- State Auditor of Public Accounts
- State Treasurer
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- State Legislature (technically non-partisan since 1937)
- State delegation to the U.S. Senate
- State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives (including non-voting delegate)
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
Pre-statehood (1853–1866)
| Year | Executive offices | Legislature | United States Congress |
|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | Delegate | ||
| 1853 | William Walker (I)[lower-alpha 1] | no legislature | Napoleon Bonaparte Giddings (D) |
| 1854 | Francis Burt (D) | ||
| 1855 | Mark W. Izard (D) | Territorial legislature | Bird Beers Chapman (D) |
| 1856 | |||
| 1857 | Fenner Ferguson (D) | ||
| 1858 | William Alexander Richardson (D) | ||
| 1859 | Samuel W. Black (D) | Experience Estabrook (D) | |
| 1860 | Samuel Gordon Daily (R) | ||
| 1861 | Alvin Saunders (R) | ||
| … | |||
| 1864 | |||
| 1865 | Phineas Hitchcock (R) | ||
| 1866 | |||
| Year | Governor | Legislature | Delegate |
| Executive offices | United States Congress |
1867–1936
| Year | Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | Electoral votes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | Lieutenant Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | Auditor | Treasurer | Senate | House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. House | ||
| 1867 | David Butler (R)[lower-alpha 2] | no such office | Thomas P. Kennard House (R) | Champion S. Chase (R) | John Gillespie (R) | Augustus Kountze (R) | R maj. | R maj. | Thomas Tipton (R) | John Milton Thayer (R) | Turner M. Marquett (R) | |
| John Taffe (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1868 | Grant/ Colfax (R)  | |||||||||||
| 1869 | Seth Robinson (R) | James Sweet (R) | ||||||||||
| 1870 | ||||||||||||
| 1871 | William H. James (R) | George H. Roberts (R) | Henry A. Koenig (R) | Phineas Hitchcock (R) | ||||||||
| William H. James (R)[lower-alpha 3] | ||||||||||||
| 1872 | Grant/ Wilson (R) | |||||||||||
| 1873 | Robert Wilkinson Furnas (R) | John J. Gosper (R) | Joseph R. Webster (R) | Jefferson B. Weston (R) | Lorenzo Crounse (R) | |||||||
| 1874 | ||||||||||||
| 1875 | Silas Garber (R) | Bruno Tzschuck (R) | George H. Roberts (R) | J. C. McBride (R) | Algernon Paddock (R) | |||||||
| 1876 | Hayes/ Wheeler (R) | |||||||||||
| 1877 | Othman A. Abbott (R) | Alvin Saunders (R) | Frank Welch (R)[lower-alpha 4] | |||||||||
| 1878 | ||||||||||||
| Thomas Jefferson Majors (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1879 | Albinus Nance (R) | Edmund C. Carns (R) | S. J. Alexander (R) | C. J. Dilworth (R) | F. W. Liedtke (R) | George M. Bartlett (R) | Edward K. Valentine (R) | |||||
| 1880 | Garfield/ Arthur (R)  | |||||||||||
| 1881 | John Wallichs (R) | Charles Van Wyck (R) | ||||||||||
| 1882 | ||||||||||||
| 1883 | James W. Dawes (R) | Alfred W. Agee (R) | Edward P. Roggen (R) | Isaac Powers, Jr. (R) | Phelps D. Sturdevant (D/A-Mo) |
D/A-Mo maj.[lower-alpha 5] | R maj. | Charles F. Manderson (R) | 3R | |||
| 1884 | Blaine/ Logan (R) | |||||||||||
| 1885 | Hibbard H. Shedd (R) | William Leese (R) | H. A. Babcock (R) | Charles H. Willard (R) | R maj. | R maj. | ||||||
| 1886 | ||||||||||||
| 1887 | John Milton Thayer (R)[lower-alpha 6] | Gilbert L. Laws (R)[lower-alpha 7] | Algernon Paddock (R) | 2R, 1D | ||||||||
| 1888 | Harrison/ Morton (R) | |||||||||||
| 1889 | George de Rue Meiklejohn (R) |
Thomas H. Benton (R) | John E. Hill (R) | 3R | ||||||||
| 1890 | Benjamin R. Cowdery (R)[lower-alpha 8] | |||||||||||
| 1891 | Thomas Jefferson Majors (R) |
John Clayton Allen (R) | George H. Hastings (R) | Pop maj. | Pop maj. | 2Pop, 1D | ||||||
| 1892 | James E. Boyd (D)[lower-alpha 6] | Harrison/ Reid (R) | ||||||||||
| 1893 | Lorenzo Crounse (R) | Eugene Moore (R) | Joseph S. Bartley (R) | D/Pop maj. | D/Pop maj.[lower-alpha 9] | William V. Allen (Pop) | 3R, 2Pop, 1D | |||||
| 1894 | ||||||||||||
| 1895 | Silas A. Holcomb (D/Pop) | Robert E. Moore (D/Pop) | Joel A. Piper (R) | Arthur S. Churchill (R) | R maj. | R maj. | John M. Thurston (R) | 5R, 1Pop | ||||
| 1896 | 4 – Bryan/ Sewall (D/Sv) 4 – Bryan/ Watson (Pop) | |||||||||||
| 1897 | James E. Harris (D/Pop) | William F. Porter (D/Pop) | Constantine Joseph Smyth (D/Pop) |
John F. Cornell (D/Pop) | John B. Meserve (D/Pop) | D/Pop/SvR maj. | D/Pop/SvR maj.[lower-alpha 10] | 4Pop, 2R | ||||
| 1898 | ||||||||||||
| 1899 | William A. Poynter (D/Pop) | Edward A. Gilbert (R) | R maj. | R maj. | Monroe Hayward (R)[lower-alpha 4] | 3Pop, 2R, 1D | ||||||
| 1900 | William V. Allen (Pop)[lower-alpha 11] | McKinley/ Roosevelt (R) | ||||||||||
| 1901 | Charles H. Dietrich (R)[lower-alpha 12] | Ezra P. Savage (R) | George W. Marsh (R) | Frank N. Prout (R) | Charles Weston (R) | William Stuefer (R) | Joseph Millard (R) | 2D, 2Pop, 2R | ||||
| Ezra P. Savage (R)[lower-alpha 13] | vacant | Charles H. Dietrich (R) | ||||||||||
| 1902 | ||||||||||||
| 1903 | John H. Mickey (R) | Edmund G. McGilton (R) | Peter Mortensen (R) | 5R, 1D | ||||||||
| 1904 | Roosevelt/ Fairbanks (R) | |||||||||||
| 1905 | A. Galusha (R) | Norris Brown (R) | Edward N. Searle Jr. (R) | Elmer Burkett (R) | 6R | |||||||
| 1906 | ||||||||||||
| 1907 | George L. Sheldon (R) | Melville R. Hopewell (R)[lower-alpha 4] | George C. Junkin (R) | William T. Thompson (R)[lower-alpha 14] | L. G. Brian (R) | Norris Brown (R) | 5R, 1D | |||||
| 1908 | Bryan/ Kern (D) | |||||||||||
| 1909 | Ashton C. Shallenberger (D) | Silas Reynolds Barton (R) |
D maj. | D maj. | 3D, 3R | |||||||
| 1910 | Arthur F. Mullen (D)[lower-alpha 8] | |||||||||||
| 1911 | Chester Hardy Aldrich (R) | Addison Wait (R) | Grant G. Martin (R) | Walter A. George (R) | Gilbert Hitchcock (D) | |||||||
| 1912 | vacant | Wilson/ Marshall (D) | ||||||||||
| 1913 | John H. Morehead (D) | Samuel Roy McKelvie (R) | W. B. Howard (R) | R maj. | D maj. | George W. Norris (R) | ||||||
| 1914 | ||||||||||||
| 1915 | James Pearson (D) | Charles W. Pool (D) | Willis E. Reed (D) | William H. Smith (D) | George E. Hall (D) | D maj. | D maj. | |||||
| 1916 | ||||||||||||
| 1917 | Keith Neville (D) | Edgar Howard (D) | ||||||||||
| 1918 | ||||||||||||
| 1919 | Samuel Roy McKelvie (R) | Pelham A. Barrows (R) | Darius M. Amsberry (R) | Clarence A. Davis (R) | George W. Marsh (R) | Daniel B. Cropsey (R) | R maj. | R maj. | 6R | |||
| 1920 | Harding/ Coolidge (R) | |||||||||||
| 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 1923 | Charles W. Bryan (D) | Fred Gustus Johnson (R) | Charles W. Pool (D) | Ora S. Spillman (R) | Charles D. Robinson (R) | Robert B. Howell (R)[lower-alpha 4] | 3D, 3R | |||||
| 1924 | Coolidge/ Dawes (R) | |||||||||||
| 1925 | Adam McMullen (R) | George A. Williams (R) | ||||||||||
| 1926 | ||||||||||||
| 1927 | Frank Marsh Sr. (R) | L. B. Johnson (R) | W. M. Stebbins (R) | 4D, 2R | ||||||||
| 1928 | Hoover/ Curtis (R) | |||||||||||
| 1929 | Arthur J. Weaver (R) | Christian A. Sorensen (R) | 4R, 2D | |||||||||
| 1930 | ||||||||||||
| 1931 | Charles W. Bryan (D) | Theodore W. Metcalfe (R) | George W. Marsh (R) | Truman W. Bass (R) | 4D, 2R | |||||||
| 1932 | Roosevelt/ Garner (D) | |||||||||||
| 1933 | Walter H. Jurgensen (D) | Harry R. Swanson (D) | Paul F. Good (D) | William B. Price (D)[lower-alpha 15] | George E. Hall (D)[lower-alpha 16] | D maj. | D maj. | 5D | ||||
| William H. Thompson (D)[lower-alpha 11] | ||||||||||||
| 1934 | ||||||||||||
| Richard C. Hunter (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1935 | Robert Leroy Cochran (D) | William H. Wright (D) | Edward R. Burke (D) | 4D, 1R | ||||||||
| Fred C. Ayres (D)[lower-alpha 8] | ||||||||||||
| 1936 | George W. Norris (I)[lower-alpha 17] | |||||||||||
| H. J. Murray (D)[lower-alpha 8] | ||||||||||||
| Year | Governor | Lieutenant Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | Auditor | Treasurer | Senate | House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. House | Electoral votes |
| Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | ||||||||||
1937–present
- Provisional
- Impeached and removed from office for misappropriation of state funds; the impeachment was expunged six years later.
- As state secretary of state, acted as governor for unexpired term.
- Died in office.
- The Coalition elected an Anti-Monopolist as Senate President Pro Tempore.[1]
- James E. Boyd won the 1890 election and was sworn in on January 8, 1891. However, due to a question of his U.S. citizenship and eligibility for the office, he did not take office until February 8, 1892.
- Resigned on November 20, 1889 to take an elected seat in the United States House of Representatives.
- Appointed to fill vacancy.
- A Republican was elected as Senate President Pro Tempore, but the chamber was organized by the coalition of Democrats and Populists.[2]
- A Silver Republican was elected as Senate President Pro Tempore, and the Silver Republicans were in coalition with the Democrats and Populists in organizing both chambers.[3]
- Appointed to fill vacancy; did not seek election.
- Resigned on May 1, 1901 to take an elected seat in the United States Senate.
- As lieutenant governor, acted as governor for unexpired term.
- Resigned in 1910 to take office as Solicitor of the United States Treasury.
- Died in office on August 19, 1935.
- Died in office on December 21, 1936.
- Changed party affiliation from Republican to Independent in 1936.
- Due to a constitutional amendment passed in 1934, effective with the 1936 election, the Nebraska Legislature became a non-partisan unicameral body with 43 elected members.
- Died in office on August 21, 1939.
- Died in office on February 9, 1951.
- Resigned on December 31, 1945.
- Appointed to fill vacancy; subsequently elected.
- Resigned.
- Died in office on July 13, 1958.
- Died in office on April 5, 1964.
- Due to the mandate of "one man, one vote" in Baker v. Carr and Reynolds v. Sims in redistricting, the Legislature expanded to 49 members.
- Appointed to fill vacancy; lost election to a full term.
- Resigned on October 4, 1993 to take office as director of the Nebraska Department of Economic Development.
- Resigned on December 15, 2000 to take a position with Union Pacific Railroad.
- Changed party affiliation from Democratic to Republican in November 1994 after winning reelection as a Democrat.
- Resigned on October 1, 2001 to take office as Lieutenant Governor.
- Resigned on January 20, 2005 to take office as United States Secretary of Agriculture.
- Resigned on October 1, 2001 to take office as director of Federal Emergency Management Agency Region VIII.
- Resigned on January 6, 2004.
- As lieutenant governor, acted as governor for unexpired term and was later elected in his own right.
- Changed party affiliation from Republican to Democratic in August 2006.
- McCain and Palin received the state's two at-large votes and one vote each in the First and Third Congressional Districts while Obama and Biden received one vote in the Second District.
- Resigned on September 18, 2023 to lead the Nebraska Public Employees Retirement Systems.
- Trump and Pence received the state's two at-large votes and one vote each in the First and Third Congressional Districts while Biden and Harris received one vote in the Second District.
References
- "Senate journal of the Legislature of the State of Nebraska. 1883". HathiTrust. p. 14. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
- "Senate journal of the Legislature of the State of Nebraska. 1893". HathiTrust. p. ii, viii–x. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
- "Senate journal of the Legislature of the State of Nebraska. 1897". HathiTrust. p. vi, viii. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
See also
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