Webster County, Nebraska

2024 results by precinct

5 precincts · 1,765 votes cast

Trump · R+65

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−65.3%	296	1,449	1,765
2020	R	−62.7%	335	1,511	1,876
2016	R	−60.0%	306	1,330	1,708
2012	R	−46.8%	442	1,258	1,742
2008	R	−37.5%	552	1,233	1,817
2004	R	−42.3%	557	1,403	2,002
2000	R	−36.9%	584	1,302	1,945
1996	R	−24.2%	621	1,094	1,955
1992	R	−15.4%	625	973	2,264
1988	R	−19.0%	891	1,314	2,226
1984	R	−44.5%	645	1,694	2,355
1980	R	−47.0%	547	1,676	2,403
1976	R	−5.6%	1,130	1,267	2,441
1972	R	−40.2%	696	1,631	2,327
1968	R	−29.7%	781	1,521	2,488
1964	D	+16.4%	1,657	1,191	2,848
1960	R	−29.5%	1,103	2,026	3,129
1956	R	−41.2%	956	2,298	3,254
1952	R	−49.2%	925	2,719	3,644
1948	R	−18.0%	1,365	1,964	3,329
1944	R	−39.5%	1,094	2,523	3,617
1940	R	−36.4%	1,329	2,847	4,176
1936	D	+11.4%	2,408	1,912	4,368
1932	D	+22.9%	2,632	1,627	4,389
1928	R	−36.9%	1,342	2,924	4,286
1924	R	−24.5%	1,207	2,194	4,033
1920	R	−45.9%	913	2,599	3,675
1916	D	+10.0%	1,469	1,191	2,771
1912	D	+23.0%	1,168	532	2,764
1908	R	−1.9%	1,354	1,408	2,898
1904	R	−45.3%	424	1,585	2,563
1900	R	−1.2%	1,322	1,355	2,728
1896	D	+7.6%	1,328	1,137	2,526
1892	D	+37.5%	1,023	169	2,275
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.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 44.5 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

1.2%

85+

1.9%

2.2%

75–84

3.7%

7.3%

65–74

6.7%

7.5%

55–64

7.7%

6.3%

45–54

4.9%

5.4%

35–44

5.2%

6.6%

25–34

5.1%

2.7%

18–24

3.4%

9.1%

5–17

7.9%

2.7%

2.4%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$64,347

Webster County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Webster County$64,347

Nebraska$76,475

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

9.6%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1818.0%

Working age (18–64)100.0%

Seniors (65+)18.0%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

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

Mainline Protestant

18.1%

Methodist

17.3%

Other Christian

3.6%

Pentecostal & Holiness

2.5%

Catholic & Orthodox

1.7%

Baptist

0.3%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 56.5% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Webster County delivered a 65-point Republican margin in 2024, reflecting the deep-red consolidation typical of sparsely populated Great Plains counties where agriculture and small-town demographics dominate the electorate.

The Democratic margin in Webster County peaked at thirty-eight points in 1892. By 1968 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was sixty-five points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Webster County's median household income of $64,347 sits well below state and national norms, and 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The shift here is part of a broader realignment of working-class places across the country. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Slope County and Elk County.

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Webster County was solidly one party for decades. In the last twenty years, it flipped.