Jim Pillen leads Nebraska's governor's race with 50.8% to Lynne Walz's 42.2%, an 8.6-point margin (unofficial results, 100% of precincts reporting)
What's new Jim Pillen and Joe Kelly (REP) leads Nebraska's governor's race with 376,242 votes (50.76%) against 312,633 (42.18%) for Lynne Walz and Ben Steffen (DEM) in the count of the Nov. 3 vote: unofficial results, 100% of precincts reporting (1322/1322 precincts; the state's final flag is not set).
Why it matters The state certifies its results later; in this count the gap is 8.58 percentage points, or 63,609 votes.
PostNewz holds no poll average for these two candidates in this race, so this story gives no poll comparison.
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Records: election_results #3697 and #3698, election_polls #45674.
Room for disagreement
A vote count says who won and by how much; it does not say why voters chose as they did, and a poll average measures intentions before the vote, not the result.
About the data
Every figure in this story is read from PostNewz's election_results, election_polls tables (17 rows read Nov 6, 4:32 PM UTC): Official count for Nebraska's governor's race: Jim Pillen and Joe Kelly 376,242 votes (election_results #3697), Lynne Walz and Ben Steffen 312,633 (election_results #3698); unofficial results, 100% of precincts reporting (1322/1322), state final flag not set, election_results #3700, as of 11/4/2026 1:59:53 PM (state time) (state election office electionresults.nebraska.gov, https://electionresults.nebraska.gov/resultsCSV.aspx?text=All&type=SW&map=CTY); poll average election_polls #45674 (3 polls, computed 2026-11-06T15:16:14.928Z). Written by code from those rows (pnsplit1-pnj-v24, US race result story; no model prose); neutrality check passed. All dates and times are UTC.