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.”
Nebraska Democratic Party 很自豪能够在 2018 年选举中派出超过 850 名候选人，而之前的最高候选人数量为 515 名。从美国参议院和众议院、州级办公室、立法机构和数十个地方竞选的竞选中，新民主党派出了令人印象深刻的候选人名单看起来和听起来都像他们的社区。
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.
在第 26 区，参议员马特·汉森 (Matt Hansen) 赢得了第二个任期，参议员帕蒂·潘辛·布鲁克斯 (Patty Pansing Brooks) 在 28 区无人反对并赢得了第二个任期，第 46 区的参议员亚当·莫菲尔德 (Adam Morfeld) 也赢得了第二个任期。
民主党立法成果领先 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.
此外，梅根·亨特 (Megan Hunt) 赢得了第 8 区的比赛，并成为 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.
今年民主党候选人的庞大数量反映了新民主党积极的党建努力。我们专注于关键的基础设施建设，这体现在我们现在有 73 名县党主席，而 2016 年有 41 名。
该党在全州范围内的投票努力也令人印象深刻、强劲：
— 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.
— 此外，新民主党还向内布拉斯加州各地的潜在选民邮寄并分发了约 200,000 份邮寄投票申请。
— 2018 年，共有 67,774 名民主党人要求邮寄选票，比 2014 年增加了 59%。
— 据内布拉斯加州国务卿办公室称，截至 11 月 5 日，全州共退回 67,673 张民主党选票。这比 2014 年提前投票的民主党人增加了近 81%，当时有 37,403 名民主党人提前投票。
— 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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