NEBRASKA CITY – Counties that favored governor candidate Charles Herbster by the highest percentage in this year’s primary election, also favored Donald Trump for president in 2020 by margins as high as 97 percent.

Herbster won 30 of Nebraska’s 93 counties, but lost the Republican nomination to Jim Pillen by just over 10,000 votes.

The county with the most votes for Herbster was Scotts Bluff with 1,697. Counties with the highest percentage of Republican voters were Sheridan with 58.2 percent, followed by Keya Paha, Richardson, Morrill and Cherry counties.

Scotts Bluff, Sheridan and Morrill counties are all in Nebraska’s panhandle, and Cherry is adjacent in the Sand Hills.

Herbster won his home county of Richardson by 55.7 percent of the vote.

By comparison, Trump won the presidential vote in Richardson and Morrill counties by 97 percent of the vote and won in Keya Paha and Cherry by over 90 percent.

 

Here are the county-by-county results

Statewide

Jim Pillen, 91,206

Charles Herbster, 80,420

Brett Lindstrom, 70,192

Theresa Thibodeau, 16,361

Pillen wins

Adams, Buffalo, Cheyenne, Custer, Dodge, Frontier, Furnas, Gage, Hall, Hamilton, Harlan, Hooker, Howard, Jefferson, Kearney, Keith, Lancaster, Lincoln, Logan, Nemaha, Pawnee, Seward, Thurston, Valley, Wheeler,

Pillen wins by 40 percent or more

Antelope, Arthur, Banner,Boone, Butler, Cedar, Chase, Clay, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota, Dawson, Deuel, Dundy, Fillmore, Franklin, Gosper, Grant, Greeley, Kimball, Knox, Madison, Merrick, Nance, Perkins, Phelps, Pierce, Platte, Polk, Stanton, Wayne, Webster, York

Herbster wins

Blaine, Cass, Dawes, Dixon, Hitchcock, Johnson, Loup, McPherson, Otoe, Red Willow, Saline, Saunders, Sherman, Thayer,

Herbster wins by 40 percent or more

Box Butte, Boyd, Brown, Cherry, Garden, Garfield, Holt, Keya Paha, Morrill, Nuckolls, Richardson, Rock, Scotts Bluff, Sheridan, Sioux, Thomas.

Lindstrom wins

Burt, Douglas, Sarpy, Washington.