LINCOLN - Though the urgency has significantly lessened, several Nebraska lawmakers remain steadfast in their effort to switch Nebraska’s presidential elections back to a winner-take-all approach.

State Sen. Loren Lippincott of Central City confirmed he plans to bring back a bill he introduced in 2023 that would reinstate winner-take-all as the system Nebraska uses to award all five of its electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the state’s popular vote. Nebraska is one of two states, alongside Maine, that divides its electoral votes by congressional districts, although two of the five votes are distributed based on the statewide winner.

Lippincott’s original bill, Legislative Bill 764, went largely ignored through the 2023 and 2024 sessions, until Gov. Jim Pillen released a statement supporting the bill in the final weeks of the 2024 session, past the point when the bill had a serious chance of passing. He considered calling a special session to debate the issue, but there was not enough support among lawmakers to pass the measure.

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