Nebraska

Nebraska, home to the indigenous Omaha, Missouria, Ponca, Pawnee, Lakota, and Otoe tribes for thousands of years before European exploration, became a state of the US in March 1867, 13 years after it was established as a US territory under the Kansas-Nebraska Act. It was the first state admitted to the Union after the end of the Civil War. The state is a landlocked region in the Midwestern United States.

Nebraska last voted for a Democrat in 1964 and has been largely Republican in presidential elections since then. It is one of two states, along with Maine, that do not use the winner-takes-all approach when awarding its electoral votes. Nebraska allocates two electoral votes to the winner of the statewide popular vote and one electoral vote to the winner of each of its three congressional districts.

This approach was first used in the 1992 election and has been applied twice when a Democrat won the second congressional district, in 2008 and 2020. Donald Trump won the state in 2020 over Joe Biden by a margin of 19%.

Nebraska's rural population has not increased as much as in other parts of the country. The state previously had eight electoral votes before the Great Depression (1929-1939) and now has five electoral votes in the Electoral College.