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1876–2024
Garden County, Nebraska
Garden County·Nebraska

Garden County has voted Republican for as long as anyone can remember.

One of Nebraska's least-populated counties, and among its most lopsided

18762024·38 elections
Garden County, Nebraska · Ammodramus · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+70
in 2024
Archetype
Republican loyalist
since the recent cycles
Population
1,761
2024 ACS
Most similar
Keith County
NE · similarity 1.00
4 precincts · 1,120 votes cast
Trump · R+70
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−70.3%
1629491,120
2020R
−71.3%
1611,0161,200
2016R
−66.6%
1538691,075
2012R
−53.8%
2428291,091
2008R
−49.3%
2838441,138
2004R
−65.0%
2019701,183
2000R
−62.3%
2039631,219
1996R
−44.1%
2798511,297
1992R
−37.2%
2126971,303
1988R
−45.5%
3669861,362
1984R
−72.4%
1801,1581,351
1980R
−69.3%
2021,2971,580
1976R
−33.5%
4459281,442
1972R
−70.1%
2041,1611,365
1968R
−64.1%
2061,1201,425
1964R
−32.9%
5591,1061,665
1960R
−52.7%
4261,3761,802
1956R
−55.4%
3351,1671,502
1952R
−62.1%
3411,4571,798
1948R
−28.0%
5199231,442
1944R
−39.5%
5411,2481,789
1940R
−29.5%
7361,3512,087
1936R
−0.5%
9869962,007
1932D
+21.7%
1,2047682,010
1928R
−56.4%
4041,4701,889
1924R
−17.1%
4597251,553
1920R
−36.1%
4219241,395
1916D
+30.5%
598306956
1912D
+17.1%
282136853
1908
No data
1904
No data
1900
No data
1896
No data
1892
No data
1888
No data
1884
No data
1880
No data
1876
No data
Demographics
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
American
100.0%
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
0.0%
speak English only
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Catholic & Orthodox
13.5%
Pentecostal & Holiness
11.2%
Mainline Protestant
11.0%
Methodist
8.9%
Other Christian
2.4%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 53.0% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Garden County sits in the Nebraska Sandhills, where ranching defines both the economy and the electorate — its 2024 presidential margin of R+70.5 reflects a degree of partisan uniformity common to the region's most sparsely settled communities.

The Republican margin in Garden County reached its widest at seventy-two points in 1984. The margin in 2024 was seventy points, in line with the county's deep historical pattern.

Garden County's loyalty is rooted in its place. Median household income of $41,882, a 94% non-Hispanic-white share, and a population of 1,761 together describe a community whose political habits are deeply settled. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Keith County and Stanton County.