Forty-eight states and Washington, D.C., award all their presidential electoral votes to the candidate who wins statewide. And then there’s Nebraska and Maine.

Reliably conservative Nebraska had been in the spotlight because it splits its five electoral votes. The state’s Second Congressional District voted Democratic.

In Nebraska's general elections, Harris took the state's 2nd Congressional District while Fischer retained her seat in a challenge against Osborn.

Nebraskans passed medical marijuana legalization, solidified the state’s 12-week abortion ban in the constitution, implemented paid sick leave for workers, and repealed a voucher program for private schools on Election Day.

A top Democratic dark money group poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into an unsuccessful effort to oust Sen. Deb Fischer (D-NE), records show. Sixteen Thirty Fund, which is registered under a section of the IRS code called 501(c)(4) that allows “social welfare” groups to avoid disclosing their donors,

Former President Trump is projected to win four out of five of Nebraska’s electoral votes, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ. Nebraska is one of two states that does not use a winner-take-all system for awarding its electoral votes.

Representative Don Bacon, a Republican, is facing a rematch challenge from Democrat Tony Vargas, a state senator, whom he beat by just 6,000 votes in 2022, to represent Omaha and the surrounding suburbs ⎯ a swing district in an otherwise solidly red state.

Voters in seven states restored, protected or expanded the right to abortion care in their state. Many of them also voted for the man who ended Roe v. Wade.

Senator Deb Fischer, the two-term Republican from Nebraska, survived a dark horse challenge from Dan Osborn, a mechanic and labor leader who ran as an independent.