1928 United States presidential election in Nebraska

The 1928 United States presidential election in Nebraska was held on November 6, 1928. Nebraska voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

1928 United States presidential election in Nebraska

November 6, 1928

Nominee Herbert Hoover Al Smith Party Republican Democratic Home state California New York Running mate Charles Curtis Joseph T. Robinson Electoral vote 8 0 Popular vote 345,745 197,959 Percentage 63.19% 36.18%

County Results Hoover   50-60%   60-70%   70-80%   80-90% Smith   50-60%   60-70%

President before election Calvin Coolidge Republican Elected President Herbert Hoover Republican

The Republican candidate Herbert Hoover won the state by 147,786 votes or close to 27.01 percentage points against Al Smith.[1]

Results

1928 United States presidential election in Nebraska
Party		Candidate	Running mate	Popular vote		Electoral vote
				Count	%	Count	%
	Republican	Herbert Hoover of California	Charles Curtis of Kansas	345,745	63.19%	8	100%
	Democratic	Al Smith of New York	Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas	197,959	36.18%	0	0.00%
	Socialist	Norman Thomas of New York	James Hudson Maurer of Pennsylvania	3,434	0.63%	0	0.00%
	Various	Write-ins	Various	6[lower-alpha 1]	0.00%	0	0
Total				547,144	100%	8	100%

Results by county

County[2]	Herbert Clark Hoover Republican		Alfred Emmanuel Smith Democratic		Norman Mattoon Thomas Socialist		Margin		Total votes cast
	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
Adams	7,194	70.63%	2,926	28.73%	66	0.65%	4,268	41.90%	10,186
Antelope	4,277	67.80%	2,016	31.96%	15	0.24%	2,261	35.84%	6,308
Arthur	402	69.43%	169	29.19%	8	1.38%	233	40.24%	579
Banner	548	86.30%	81	12.76%	6	0.94%	467	73.54%	635
Blaine	484	73.11%	175	26.44%	3	0.45%	309	46.68%	662
Boone	3,816	62.57%	2,260	37.06%	23	0.38%	1,556	25.51%	6,099
Box Butte	3,028	70.71%	1,238	28.91%	16	0.37%	1,790	41.80%	4,282
Boyd	1,653	58.72%	1,143	40.60%	19	0.67%	510	18.12%	2,815
Brown	1,907	74.06%	636	24.70%	32	1.24%	1,271	49.36%	2,575
Buffalo	7,460	72.22%	2,801	27.12%	68	0.66%	4,659	45.11%	10,329
Burt	3,551	66.34%	1,783	33.31%	19	0.35%	1,768	33.03%	5,353
Butler	2,930	45.65%	3,465	53.99%	23	0.36%	-535	-8.34%	6,418
Cass	4,970	63.91%	2,739	35.22%	68	0.87%	2,231	28.69%	7,777
Cedar	3,206	49.57%	3,241	50.12%	20	0.31%	-35	-0.54%	6,467
Chase	1,540	71.90%	579	27.03%	23	1.07%	961	44.86%	2,142
Cherry	2,905	69.04%	1,285	30.54%	18	0.43%	1,620	38.50%	4,208
Cheyenne	2,618	62.29%	1,563	37.19%	22	0.52%	1,055	25.10%	4,203
Clay	4,105	69.27%	1,767	29.82%	54	0.91%	2,338	39.45%	5,926
Colfax	1,432	34.14%	2,746	65.47%	16	0.38%	-1,314	-31.33%	4,194
Cuming	2,418	47.95%	2,597	51.50%	28	0.56%	-179	-3.55%	5,043
Custer	8,379	76.40%	2,506	22.85%	82	0.75%	5,873	53.55%	10,967
Dakota	1,709	49.35%	1,754	50.65%	0	0.00%	-45	-1.30%	3,463
Dawes	3,276	73.32%	1,173	26.25%	19	0.43%	2,103	47.07%	4,468
Dawson	5,125	74.25%	1,718	24.89%	59	0.85%	3,407	49.36%	6,902
Deuel	1,197	74.39%	403	25.05%	9	0.56%	794	49.35%	1,609
Dixon	2,982	64.81%	1,607	34.93%	12	0.26%	1,375	29.88%	4,601
Dodge	6,250	60.59%	4,030	39.07%	35	0.34%	2,220	21.52%	10,315
Douglas	47,551	52.60%	42,267	46.75%	587	0.65%	5,284	5.84%	90,405
Dundy	1,575	76.42%	472	22.90%	14	0.68%	1,103	53.52%	2,061
Fillmore	3,479	60.55%	2,235	38.90%	32	0.56%	1,244	21.65%	5,746
Franklin	2,533	63.44%	1,443	36.14%	17	0.43%	1,090	27.30%	3,993
Frontier	2,335	71.76%	879	27.01%	40	1.23%	1,456	44.74%	3,254
Furnas	3,760	73.17%	1,339	26.06%	40	0.78%	2,421	47.11%	5,139
Gage	8,378	69.83%	3,526	29.39%	94	0.78%	4,852	40.44%	11,998
Garden	1,470	77.82%	404	21.39%	15	0.79%	1,066	56.43%	1,889
Garfield	1,180	83.04%	235	16.54%	6	0.42%	945	66.50%	1,421
Gosper	875	64.10%	480	35.16%	10	0.73%	395	28.94%	1,365
Grant	398	70.94%	160	28.52%	3	0.53%	238	42.42%	561
Greeley	1,457	40.88%	2,098	58.87%	9	0.25%	-641	-17.99%	3,564
Hall	6,862	66.58%	3,391	32.90%	53	0.51%	3,471	33.68%	10,306
Hamilton	3,634	68.77%	1,606	30.39%	44	0.83%	2,028	38.38%	5,284
Harlan	2,702	69.98%	1,055	27.32%	104	2.69%	1,647	42.66%	3,861
Hayes	917	65.83%	440	31.59%	36	2.58%	477	34.24%	1,393
Hitchcock	2,022	73.71%	698	25.45%	23	0.84%	1,324	48.27%	2,743
Holt	3,746	54.43%	3,126	45.42%	10	0.15%	620	9.01%	6,882
Hooker	355	76.02%	110	23.55%	2	0.43%	245	52.46%	467
Howard	1,937	46.60%	2,197	52.85%	23	0.55%	-260	-6.25%	4,157
Jefferson	4,359	65.96%	2,193	33.18%	57	0.86%	2,166	32.77%	6,609
Johnson	2,632	63.67%	1,485	35.92%	17	0.41%	1,147	27.75%	4,134
Kearney	2,426	68.28%	1,093	30.76%	34	0.96%	1,333	37.52%	3,553
Keith	1,715	67.10%	832	32.55%	9	0.35%	883	34.55%	2,556
Keya Paha	989	79.76%	232	18.71%	19	1.53%	757	61.05%	1,240
Kimball	1,296	74.01%	438	25.01%	17	0.97%	858	49.00%	1,751
Knox	3,668	55.46%	2,914	44.06%	32	0.48%	754	11.40%	6,614
Lancaster	30,523	75.17%	9,840	24.23%	242	0.60%	20,683	50.94%	40,605
Lincoln	5,946	70.58%	2,381	28.26%	98	1.16%	3,565	42.31%	8,425
Logan	595	74.38%	195	24.38%	10	1.25%	400	50.00%	800
Loup	594	83.78%	106	14.95%	9	1.27%	488	68.83%	709
Madison	6,229	64.32%	3,407	35.18%	48	0.50%	2,822	29.14%	9,684
McPherson	419	84.31%	69	13.88%	9	1.81%	350	70.42%	497
Merrick	3,269	69.57%	1,403	29.86%	27	0.57%	1,866	39.71%	4,699
Morrill	2,318	74.27%	765	24.51%	38	1.22%	1,553	49.76%	3,121
Nance	2,299	63.28%	1,318	36.28%	16	0.44%	981	27.00%	3,633
Nemaha	3,777	68.08%	1,767	31.85%	4	0.07%	2,010	36.23%	5,548
Nuckolls	3,299	65.63%	1,684	33.50%	44	0.88%	1,615	32.13%	5,027
Otoe	5,063	62.68%	2,959	36.63%	55	0.68%	2,104	26.05%	8,077
Pawnee	2,825	64.29%	1,547	35.21%	22	0.50%	1,278	29.09%	4,394
Perkins	1,461	69.37%	631	29.96%	14	0.66%	830	39.41%	2,106
Phelps	3,297	77.56%	927	21.81%	27	0.64%	2,370	55.75%	4,251
Pierce	2,542	61.45%	1,586	38.34%	9	0.22%	956	23.11%	4,137
Platte	3,435	41.84%	4,748	57.83%	27	0.33%	-1,313	-15.99%	8,210
Polk	3,096	67.17%	1,494	32.41%	19	0.41%	1,602	34.76%	4,609
Red Willow	3,559	66.10%	1,770	32.88%	55	1.02%	1,789	33.23%	5,384
Richardson	5,833	65.09%	3,072	34.28%	57	0.64%	2,761	30.81%	8,962
Rock	1,034	77.11%	305	22.74%	2	0.15%	729	54.36%	1,341
Saline	3,347	45.67%	3,955	53.97%	26	0.35%	-608	-8.30%	7,328
Sarpy	2,011	51.04%	1,900	48.22%	29	0.74%	111	2.82%	3,940
Saunders	5,356	58.31%	3,793	41.29%	37	0.40%	1,563	17.02%	9,186
Scotts Bluff	6,677	81.76%	1,403	17.18%	87	1.07%	5,274	64.58%	8,167
Seward	3,539	59.68%	2,367	39.92%	24	0.40%	1,172	19.76%	5,930
Sheridan	3,030	70.22%	1,226	28.41%	59	1.37%	1,804	41.81%	4,315
Sherman	1,675	48.76%	1,733	50.45%	27	0.79%	-58	-1.69%	3,435
Sioux	1,178	72.54%	435	26.79%	11	0.68%	743	45.75%	1,624
Stanton	1,211	48.17%	1,296	51.55%	7	0.28%	-85	-3.38%	2,514
Thayer	3,552	61.80%	2,173	37.80%	23	0.40%	1,379	23.99%	5,748
Thomas	406	72.24%	152	27.05%	4	0.71%	254	45.20%	562
Thurston	1,538	45.33%	1,837	54.14%	18	0.53%	-299	-8.81%	3,393
Valley	2,768	69.27%	1,205	30.16%	23	0.58%	1,563	39.11%	3,996
Washington	2,750	58.71%	1,912	40.82%	22	0.47%	838	17.89%	4,684
Wayne	2,354	64.88%	1,235	34.04%	39	1.07%	1,119	30.84%	3,628
Webster	2,924	68.22%	1,342	31.31%	20	0.47%	1,582	36.91%	4,286
Wheeler	534	64.18%	293	35.22%	5	0.60%	241	28.97%	832
York	5,769	74.16%	1,979	25.44%	31	0.40%	3,790	48.72%	7,779
Totals	345,745	63.19%	197,959	36.18%	3,434	0.63%	147,786	27.01%	547,144

Notes

1. There write-in votes were not listed by county but as a state-wide total.[2]

References

1. "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
2. "NE US President Race, November 06, 1928". Our Campaigns.