Lincoln, NE 68503 is a politically active city with many opportunities for residents to get involved in their local government. The City of Lincoln has an elected Mayor and City Council in charge of making decisions on the city’s budget, infrastructure projects, public transit, and other vital services. Residents can become involved by attending public meetings or volunteering for various community organizations. There are multiple political parties represented in the city council chambers as well as numerous candidates running for office each election cycle. Additionally, Lincoln residents have a range of options when it comes to voting in elections including absentee ballots and mail-in ballots. Allowing everyone a fair chance to voice their opinion is important to the people of Lincoln and a key factor in creating an engaged citizenry that knows how to make informed decisions about their representation at the local level.
The political climate in Zip 68503 (Lincoln, NE) is somewhat liberal.
Lancaster County, NE is leaning liberal. In Lancaster County, NE 52.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 44.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Lancaster county remained moderately Democratic, 52.3% to 44.6%.
Lancaster county voted Democratic in 2020, 2016 and 2008, and voted Republican in 2012, 2004 and 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 68503 (Lincoln, NE) is somewhat liberal.
Lincoln, Nebraska is somewhat liberal.
Lancaster County, Nebraska is leaning liberal.
Lincoln Metro Area is leaning liberal.
Nebraska is moderately conservative.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Lincoln, Nebraska: R R d r d d
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D for the Democrat and I for the Independent. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in zip 68503 (Lincoln)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 661 contributions totaling $50,424 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $76 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 50 contributions totaling $4,580 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $92 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)