2022 Nebraska Election Results
The Nebraska Board of State Canvassers certified the 2022 general election. The report is available here.
Below you will find some key data related to voter turnout:
›› The 682,714 ballots cast in the general election ranked second-most for a midterm election in Nebraska. We fell just short of 2018’s high-water mark of 706,652. This year’s voter participation represented 55 percent of our state’s 1.2 million registered voters.
›› Eleven of our state’s 93 counties are all-vote-by-mail. These counties – Boone, Cedar, Cherry, Clay, Knox, Morrill, Dixon, Dawes, Garden, Merrick, and Stanton – send mail-in ballots to all registered voters every election. The “All-Mail 11” have consistently outpaced the Nebraska average in terms of turnout, and that didn’t change in 2022 (69 percent vs. 55 percent). In total, those counties tallied 38,525 ballots this year.
›› Of Nebraska’s 82 remaining counties, two – Douglas and Gage – had more early voters than day-of in-person voters. That’s interesting: Fifty-two percent of Gage County voters and 51 percent of Douglas County voters cooled their heels on Election Day, having already done their civic duties before Nov. 8. The next-highest early vote county was Lancaster, with 41 percent (48,305 of 115,977 total votes cast).
›› Provisional ballots, often referred to as the “ballot of last resort,” declined from 8,446 in 2018’s midterm general election to 6,025 in 2022.