The 1928 United States presidential election in Nebraska was held on November 6, 1928 as part of the 1928 United States presidential election. State voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
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County Results
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Nebraska was won by the Republican candidate Herbert Hoover, who won the state by 147,786 votes or 27.01 percentage points against Al Smith.[1]
1928 United States presidential election in Nebraska | ||||||||
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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[a] | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | ||
Total | 547,144 | 100% | 8 | 100% |
County[2] | Herbert Clark Hoover Republican |
Alfred Emmanuel Smith Democratic |
Norman Mattoon Thomas Socialist |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
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 |