Nebraska state legislative election results, 2024
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The sections below contain analysis of election results in the state legislative elections for Nebraska in 2024.
General election results
Senate
- See also: Nebraska State Senate elections, 2024
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Retiring incumbents
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Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on state legislative primary election competitiveness in Nebraska. These totals include data from all regularly-scheduled House and Senate elections. For more information about Ballotpedia's competitiveness analysis of state legislative elections, please click here.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all state legislative districts up for election in Nebraska in 2024. Information below was calculated on April 18, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
There were 25 legislative seats up for election this year in Nebraska's unicameral legislature. Fifteen incumbents (5 Democrats and 10 Republicans) did not run for re-election. This was the highest retirement rate since 2014, when 17 incumbents (8 Democrats, 8 Republicans, and one independent) retired. The average number of retirements each year from 2010 to 2022 was 10.
Nebraska legislators are limited to serving two four-year terms. Fourteen of the 15 retiring incumbents were term-limited. The other, Fred Meyer (R-41), was appointed to fill a vacancy in 2023 but said he would not seek a full term. Two other retiring incumbents, Carol Blood (D-3) and Tony Vargas (D-7), ran for Congress.
Elections for Nebraska's legislature are officially nonpartisan, and the candidates do not run with party labels. However, almost all legislators are affiliated with the state affiliate of either the Democratic or the Republican Party. Both parties explicitly endorse candidates for legislative seats. Ballotpedia collects information from numerous sources and cross-matches the information for each candidate to determine his or her political affiliation.
Senate
The table below shows the number and percentage of open seats in the Nebraska State Senate from 2010 to 2024.[1]
| Open Seats in Nebraska State Senate elections: 2010 - 2024 | |||
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| Year | Total seats | Open seats | Seats with incumbents running for re-election |
| 2024 | 25 | 15 (60%) | 10 (40%) |
| 2022 | 24 | 13 (54%) | 11 (46%) |
| 2020 | 25 | 6 (24%) | 19 (76%) |
| 2018 | 24 | 8 (33%) | 16 (67%) |
| 2016 | 25 | 11 (44%) | 14 (56%) |
| 2014 | 25 | 17 (68%) | 8 (32%) |
| 2012 | 26 | 9 (35%) | 17 (65%) |
| 2010 | 24 | 3 (13%) | 21 (87%) |
See also
- Elections
- Elections calendar
- Elections by state and year
- State Poll Opening and Closing Times
- State legislative elections, 2024
Footnotes
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines a seat as open if the incumbent did not file to run for re-election or filed but withdrew and did not appear on any ballot for his or her seat. If the incumbent withdrew from or did not participate in the primary but later chose to seek re-election to his or her seat as a third party or independent candidate, the seat would not be counted as open. If the incumbent retired or ran for a different seat in the same chamber, his or her original seat would be counted as open unless another incumbent from the same chamber filed to run for that seat, in which case it would not be counted as open due to the presence of an incumbent.
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