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The Nebraska Legislature Nonpartisan

This is one of our least certain forecasts — state-legislative races have almost no district polling and many of these maps were redrawn. Read the range, not the midpoint. How this is modeled →

Outside the two-party model · facts, not a forecast

Nebraska's Legislature is officially nonpartisan — candidates run without party labels, so there is no D/R control to forecast.

Seats up in 202624 of 49

Call the Map lists what is factually known — officially nonpartisan; 24 of 49 seats up in 2026.

Chamber size49
District by district

49 seats, one per district. Hover a district for its seat; the table below opens with the closest races and carries the exact values.

Rating band
Striped = seat changes partyModeled seats use forecast paint; legal carries and terrain remain explicitly distinct
Terrain lean, 2024 pres. — NOT a forecast Not on the 2026 ballot (staggered term)

Census Bureau 2025 1:500,000 cartographic boundaries — simplified geometry for thematic mapping, not legal district lines. Terrain vote counts join the 2024 presidential vote to these district lines by estimated-boundary allocation.

DemocratRepublican
1Not on the 2026 ballotNot on the 2026 ballot
2Nonpartisan — terrain onlyNone — nonpartisan seat · Dean Helmick (O) · Caitlin Knutson (O) · Jayden L. Speed (O)R+25.2 · 26,124 votes · estimated-boundary allocation
3Not on the 2026 ballotNot on the 2026 ballot
4Nonpartisan — terrain onlyNone — nonpartisan seat · R. Brad von Gillern (O) · Cindy Maxwell-Ostdiek (O)R+5.8 · 24,623 votes · estimated-boundary allocation
5Not on the 2026 ballotNot on the 2026 ballot
6Nonpartisan — terrain onlyNone — nonpartisan seat · Patrick Leahy (O) · Nate Ostdiek (O)D+16.0 · 20,788 votes · estimated-boundary allocation
7Not on the 2026 ballotNot on the 2026 ballot
8Nonpartisan — terrain onlyNone — nonpartisan seat · Terry Brewer (O) · Erin Feichtinger (O) · Josh Livingston (O)D+37.4 · 19,287 votes · estimated-boundary allocation
9Not on the 2026 ballotNot on the 2026 ballot
10Nonpartisan — terrain onlyNone — nonpartisan seat · Cindy Johnson (O) · Rebecca Rens (O)D+8.3 · 20,954 votes · estimated-boundary allocation
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