Nebraska 1st District
Where this race stands
| Rater | Rating | Added |
|---|---|---|
| Cook Political Report | Likely R | |
| Sabato's Crystal Ball | Safe R | |
| Split Ticket | Likely R | |
| FiftyPlusOne | Lean R |
Our model's lean sits inside the range of the raters covering this race.
Model output from our win-odds simulation, under calibration review. Methodology
The full district profile is still being assembled. Candidate details appear here once an official source confirms them.
See the full forecast →We do not carry Nebraska's certified primary result.
Nebraska Secretary of State publishes the certified primary result on its official results page.
Nebraska's published terms restrict reuse of its election data, and we honor that.
Nebraska held its primary on May 12, 2026.
What we know
- Per Wikipedia, Chris Backemeyer won the Democratic primary.
- Per Wikipedia, Mike Flood won the Republican primary.
Campaign finance · FEC
- Raised
- $658.9K
- Cash on hand
- $288.5K
Campaign finance · FEC
- Raised
- $2.4M
- Cash on hand
- $1.6M
Federal Election Commission filings, as of Jun 30, 2026.
District demographics · Census ACS
- Median household income
- $79,326 (±$1,375)
- Median gross rent, monthly
- $1,103 (±$13)
- People below the poverty line
- 9.9% (±0.5%)
- People without health insurance
- 6.2% (±0.3%)
- Renter households paying 30% or more of income on rent
- 43.9% (±1.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates 2020-2024 , 119th Congress district lines (this district is unchanged for 2026); the survey window ends Dec 31, 2024. Survey estimates; the figure after ± is the 90% margin of error. The renter-burden share is derived by Thin Gold from two published Census percentages. This product uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.
Election information
- Voter registration deadline
- October 16, 2026, per the federal form; confirm with your state (U.S. Election Assistance Commission, National Mail Voter Registration Form, as of October 10, 2026)
- Early voting
- Not shown. We have not yet built a reader for this state's election office, so no state-published date is shown.
What is not on this page
- Candidate issue positions are not shown. We list a position only when it is tied to a named, dated source.
- No individual poll results are compiled for this race.
- The previous result for this seat is not shown: we hold no certified results record for it yet.