A whopping 73 percent of Democrats who ran for office in the General Election across Nebraska won according to preliminary calculations by the Nebraska Democratic Party.
In all, 850 Democrats ran statewide. Election results will be officially certified by the Board of State Canvassers on Dec. 3. But of the 794 races that the NDP checked the results of, 580 — or 73 percent — of the Democrats won.
Highlights include:
Three legislative districts flipped, sending Steve Lathrop, Machaela Cavanaugh and Wendy DeBoer to the capital while all of our Democratic State Senators won re-election.
Two women won University of Nebraska Board of Regents races — Barbara Weitz and Elizabeth O’Connor. Before their election, no women were currently represented on the critical board.
Two women — Deborah Neary and Maureen Nickels — were elected to the State Board of Education, bringing the total of Democrats on the board to four out of eight.
Forty-one Democrats winning in 47 of the Natural Resource District races.
Democrats also won in large margins for local and county races in rural areas, including:
— 18-of-21 in Butler County
— 31-of- 40 in Knox County
— 12-of-12 in Sherman County
Democratic candidates and the NDP all worked to get Medicaid Expansion across the finish line from collecting petition signatures to including the ballot on our Voter Guides and candidate materials.
“We showed up strong on Nov. 6 and elected Democrats to key races in the Legislature, Board of Regents, Board of Education and local offices across Nebraska who will make critical decisions that impact our families every day,” said Nebraska Democratic Party Chair Jane Kleeb. “The NDP will continue building our bench, listening to our base and working to create a better Nebraska for all of us. Building the party is going to take hard work in rural, suburban and urban communities across our state — with all shades of blue at the table.”
كان حزب Nebraska Democratic Party فخورًا بتقديم أكثر من 850 مرشحًا في انتخابات عام 2018، مقارنة بالرقم القياسي السابق البالغ 515. ومن السباقات لمجلس الشيوخ ومجلس النواب الأمريكي، والمكاتب على مستوى الولاية، والهيئة التشريعية وعشرات السباقات المحلية، قدم الحزب الوطني الديمقراطي قائمة رائعة من المرشحين التي بدت وكأنها مجتمعاتهم.
Lancaster County became Nebraska’s new “Blue Dot” as Democrats won every county race where a Democrat was on the ballot.
Nebraska Democrats made significant gains in the Legislature — flipping three seats from the GOP and protecting every single Democrat who ran for re-election.
في المنطقة 26، فاز السناتور مات هانسن بولاية ثانية، ولم يكن هناك معارضة للسيناتور باتي بانسينج بروكس وفاز بفترة ولاية ثانية في المنطقة 28، كما فعل السناتور آدم مورفيلد في المنطقة 46.
وقادت المكاسب التشريعية الديمقراطية by the return of Lathrop, who beat incumbent Sen. Merv Riepe in the 12th District race. Lathrop served two terms in the Legislature before leaving because of term limits and sitting out a term.
بالإضافة إلى ذلك، فازت ميغان هانت بسباقها في المنطقة 8 وأصبحت first member of the LBGTQ+ community elected to the Legislature in Nebraska.
Headed into the 2018 election, Republicans maintained control of the chamber, with a 32-15 majority. When the 2019 sessions convenes in January, Democrats now control 18 seats — a complete game-changer for property tax reform, health care and education funding.
ويعكس العدد الهائل من المرشحين الديمقراطيين هذا العام الجهود النشطة التي يبذلها الحزب الوطني الديمقراطي في بناء الحزب. نحن نركز على جهود البنية التحتية الحيوية التي تنعكس في حقيقة أن لدينا الآن 73 رئيسًا للحزب في المقاطعات، مقارنة بـ 41 في عام 2016.
كانت جهود الحزب لـ "الخروج من التصويت" أيضًا مثيرة للإعجاب وقوية وعلى مستوى الولاية:
— For the first time, the NDP created Voter Guides listing all the Democratic candidates in each of Nebraska’s 93 counties this year. Those were mailed to each Democratic household in Nebraska and also were listed online. More than 325,000 Voter Guides were delivered at the door and by the mail.
- بالإضافة إلى ذلك، أرسل الحزب الوطني الديمقراطي حوالي 200000 طلب تصويت عبر البريد ووزعها على الناخبين المحتملين في جميع أنحاء نبراسكا.
— طلب ما مجموعه 67.774 ديمقراطيًا التصويت عبر البريد في عام 2018 – بزيادة قدرها 59 بالمائة عن عام 2014.
— اعتبارًا من 5 نوفمبر، تم إعادة 67673 بطاقة اقتراع للحزب الديمقراطي على مستوى الولاية، وفقًا لمكتب وزير خارجية نبراسكا. ويمثل هذا زيادة بنسبة 81% تقريبًا عن عام 2014، عندما صوت 37403 ديمقراطيًا مبكرًا.
— The NDP sent 280,665 texts to 260,462 voters.
— New voter contact technology was available to candidates up and down the ballot, who made an impressive 760,832 text contacts with voters and utilized a state of the art Voter File to win elections.
— The NDP contacted an additional 19,090 voters thru robo and live calls to support the entire Democratic ballot.
— The NDP’s virtual phone bank also was available to candidates up and down the ballot, who made an impressive 77,895 phone calls to voters.
— The NDP opened 6 offices across Nebraska hiring over 16 canvassers in CD2 alone.
— The NDP founded a Candidates of Color Fund distributing money to candidates representing African American, Asian, Latinx and Native American communities adding needed diversity to our ticket.
— The NDP recruited and trained over 550 volunteer “Block Captains” to encourage people to vote in the Nov. 6 election and to register voters in their communities. Block Captains were each assigned 50 voters in their neighborhood knocking on their doors at least two times this election cycle resulting in over 55,000 volunteer contacts with voters.
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