Your feedback ensures we stay focused on the facts that matter to you most—take our survey
Jen Day (Nebraska)
Jen Day (Democratic Party) was a member of the Nebraska State Senate, representing District 49. She assumed office on January 6, 2021. She left office on January 8, 2025.
Day ran for re-election to the Nebraska State Senate to represent District 49. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Biography
Jen Day was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Day graduated from Papillion-La Vista High School in 1999. She earned a B.S. in political science from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 2016. Day's career experience includes working as a fitness coach and owning a business.[1]
Committee assignments
Note: This membership information was last updated in September 2023. Ballotpedia completes biannual updates of committee membership. If you would like to send us an update, email us at: editor@ballotpedia.org.
2023-2024
Day was assigned to the following committees:
2021-2022
Day was assigned to the following committees:
Sponsored legislation
The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.
Elections
2024
See also: Nebraska State Senate elections, 2024
General election
General election for Nebraska State Senate District 49
Bob Andersen defeated incumbent Jen Day in the general election for Nebraska State Senate District 49 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Bob Andersen (Nonpartisan) | 52.1 | 11,155 |
 | Jen Day (Nonpartisan) | 47.9 | 10,247 | |
| Total votes: 21,402 | |||
 = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Nebraska State Senate District 49
Incumbent Jen Day and Bob Andersen defeated Caleb Muhs in the primary for Nebraska State Senate District 49 on May 14, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jen Day (Nonpartisan) | 42.9 | 2,264 |
| ✔ | | Bob Andersen (Nonpartisan) | 34.7 | 1,835 |
| Caleb Muhs (Nonpartisan) | 22.4 | 1,184 | ||
| Total votes: 5,283 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Day in this election.
2020
See also: Nebraska State Senate elections, 2020
General election
General election for Nebraska State Senate District 49
Jen Day defeated incumbent Andrew La Grone in the general election for Nebraska State Senate District 49 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jen Day (Nonpartisan) | 50.5 | 12,524 |
 | Andrew La Grone (Nonpartisan) | 49.5 | 12,258 | |
| Total votes: 24,782 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Nebraska State Senate District 49
Jen Day and incumbent Andrew La Grone advanced from the primary for Nebraska State Senate District 49 on May 12, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jen Day (Nonpartisan) | 53.1 | 5,414 |
| ✔ | | Andrew La Grone (Nonpartisan) | 46.9 | 4,787 |
| Total votes: 10,201 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jen Day did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2019
Jen Day completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Day's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
| Collapse all
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
Campaign finance summary
Note: The finance data shown here comes from the disclosures required of candidates and parties. Depending on the election or state, this may represent only a portion of all the funds spent on their behalf. Satellite spending groups may or may not have expended funds related to the candidate or politician on whose page you are reading this disclaimer. Campaign finance data from elections may be incomplete. For elections to federal offices, complete data can be found at the FEC website. Click here for more on federal campaign finance law and here for more on state campaign finance law.
Scorecards
A scorecard evaluates a legislator’s voting record. Its purpose is to inform voters about the legislator’s political positions. Because scorecards have varying purposes and methodologies, each report should be considered on its own merits. For example, an advocacy group’s scorecard may assess a legislator’s voting record on one issue while a state newspaper’s scorecard may evaluate the voting record in its entirety.
Ballotpedia is in the process of developing an encyclopedic list of published scorecards. Some states have a limited number of available scorecards or scorecards produced only by select groups. It is Ballotpedia’s goal to incorporate all available scorecards regardless of ideology or number.
Click here for an overview of legislative scorecards in all 50 states. To contribute to the list of Nebraska scorecards, email suggestions to editor@ballotpedia.org.
2024
In 2024, the Nebraska State Legislature was in session from January 3 to April 18. A special session took place from July 25, 2024 to August 14, 2024.
- Legislators are scored on children's issues.
- Legislators are scored on their votes on bills related to business issues.
2023
| To view all the scorecards we found for this legislator in 2023, click [show]. |
|---|
|
In 2023, the Nebraska State Legislature was in session from January 4 to June 1.
|
2022
| To view all the scorecards we found for this legislator in 2022, click [show]. |
|---|
|
In 2022, the Nebraska State Legislature was in session from January 5 to April 20.
|
2021
| To view all the scorecards we found for this legislator in 2021, click [show]. |
|---|
|
In 2021, the Nebraska State Legislature was in session from January 6 to May 27.
|
See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Andrew La Grone (R) |
Nebraska State Senate District 49 2021-2025 |
Succeeded by Bob Andersen (R) |
