Northwest Omaha

The last area in Douglas County that I spent a lot of time has been Northwest Omaha. There’s not any significant difference between most of West Omaha and Northwest Omaha. The main difference is that large portions of West Omaha are in the Millard School District and many of the high school graduates continue onto Millard University (University of Nebraska – Lincoln).

For the most part, I’ve designated Northwest Omaha as West of I-80 which is roughly 108^th St and North of Dodge St. I tried to not go too far north or west in order to not to run into Bennington or Elkhorn.

There were 37,771 votes cast for one of the four Presidential candidates.

	Trump	Clinton	Johnson	Stein
# of votes	19,228	16,327	1,818	398
% of votes cast	50.9	43.2	4.8	1.1

 

This is a pretty conservative area with the Presidential votes. But even still, there were a number of voters in the area that did not want to vote for Trump, for whatever reason, but would still want to vote for a Republican for Congress. There were 38,253 votes cast for one of the three Congressional candidates. So there were about 500 voters in the area who could not find it within themselves to vote for one of the four Presidential candidates. As we’ll see from their Congressional votes, there’s even more voters who did not feel comfortable voting for Trump at the top of the ticket. Here is their Congressional votes with the net votes.

	Bacon	Ashford	Laird
Net votes	+1,037	+533	-690

 

There were a number of Ashford supporters who could not find it within themselves to vote for Clinton. The largest section, though, by far, was non Trump supporting Republicans.

There were a number of precincts in the area that Clinton won. Most of her victories were in the more Eastern part of the precinct. She won precincts 07-19 (120^th-125^th Dodge-Parker); 07-18 (104^th-118^th Dodge-Parker); 07-15 (104^th-122^nd Parker-Maple); 07-05 (108^th-120^th Hilltop-Fort); 07-09 (102^nd=108^th Maple-Fort); 07-02 (106^th-109^th Military-Newport); 07-25 (120^th-125^th Ohio-Maple); 07-10 (108^th-120^th Maple-Hilltop); 07-23 (90^th-96^th Maple-Boyd); 07-11 (120^th-132^nd Maple – Fort) and 07-03 109^th-120^th Fort-Redick). It is simply amazing to see the divide crop up between the Eastern part of NW Omaha compared to the rest of the precincts. There is a clear line between about 125^th and the rest of the area. Those areas have a high population of African-Americans. This area primarily goes to Burke High School. Even still, there is one precinct that also voted for Don Bacon.

These precincts cast 13,192 votes for one of the four Presidential candidates and 13,369 votes for one of the three Congressional candidates:

	Trump	Clinton	Johnson	Stein
# of votes	5,675	6,624	717	176
% of votes	43.0	50.2	5.4	1.3

 

	Bacon	Ashford	Laird
# of votes	5,901	6,932	536
% of votes	44.1	51.9	4.0
Net votes	+226	+308	-181

 

07-02: This precinct is located in the Northeast part of the precinct from 106^th-109^th Military-Newport. There were 1,278 votes cast for one of the four presidential candidates:

	Trump	Clinton	Johnson	Stein
# of votes	578	624	68	8
% of votes cast	45.2	48.8	5.3	0.6

 

There were a few voters who could not bring themselves to vote for one of the four presidential candidate but who still voted for one of the three Congressional candidates. There were 1,298 votes cast for one of the three Congressional candidates. Here is how they voted with the candidates’ net votes.

	Bacon	Ashford	Laird
Net votes	+64	-4	-32

 

Trump may not have been acceptable to a number of the voters there. But Bacon only won the precinct by 22 votes.

One of the nicer parts in all of Douglas County includes the neighborhood of Huntington Park. Houses in this neighborhood have an average list price of $375,000 and range from $275,000 – $500,000. When I think of the rich suburbs of NW Omaha, I think of Huntington Park. It is roughly west of 156^th and Blondo. The precinct that best encapsulates this area id 07-34 which is located from 156^th-162^nd Parker- Maple.

There were 1,002 votes cast in this precinct for one of the four Presidential candidates.

	Trump	Clinton	Johnson	Stein
# of votes	585	367	43	7
% of votes cast	58.4	36.6	4.3	0.7

 

As we see, this is a pretty conservative area. There were 1,030 votes cast for one of the three candidates running for Congress.

	Bacon	Ashford	Laird
Net votes	+80	-10	-25

 

In the nicer parts of Douglas County, time and time again, we see that the areas are very conservative but still have a problem voting for Trump. Maybe there is a social stigma with voting for Trump but they feel comfortable supporting Republicans, anyway. For many, party id simply outweighs social stigma.