Who is ahead in the 2026 Nebraska Secretary of State race?

Name: Secretary of State, Nebraska, Vugol Vector & Vugol Attention
Creator: Vugol Me
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Scott Petersen (R) won the NE Secretary of State race. No verified poll average yet. The Vugol Vector model rates it Held (R), a snapshot of today, not a probability. Updated 2026-11-14.

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Secretary of State · Nebraska · 2026

General election · 4 on the certified November ballot · Open seat (no incumbent)

VecR 46 · HeldTenR 94%Att42

TV graphic Vugol race poll

Result

Called

Scott Petersen (R) won this race.

Scott PetersenRepublicanWinnerno count in the source

Also on the ballot, no count in the source: Bob Krist (I), Paul Rumbaugh (I), Sarah Slattery (D).

Called: Called by Wikipedia editors, Nov 4, 4:10 PM ET (revision)
Last updated: Nov 5, 1:33 AM ET
Source: Wikipedia (race summary table) · official results page

Unofficial until the state certifies the result.

Before the election

Polls, ratings and the Vugol Tensor below were published before votes were counted. They are not results.

Certified ballotSecretary of State · Nebraska

Sarah Slattery

DEM

Scott Petersen

REP

No verified poll yet · Vugol Vector: R Held

R · HeldVugol Vector model

Model rating Leans Republican (Held) on the Vugol Vector model, a snapshot of today, not a probability.

No polls on file for this race. Model inputs: 2 of 7, updated today. Page updated 2026-11-14. Sources · What is validated

ExperimentalNews attention 42/100, how much coverage the race gets, not who is winning. Updated yesterday. How it works

On the Nebraska ballot, Nov 3, 2026 Election Day has passed; see the ballot as it was.Voting in Nebraska? Check your registration, get a mail ballot, find your polling place.

On the November ballot (4)

Certified by the state on 2026-09-11, checked 2026-11-13.

Bob KristSecretary of State - NEOtherOn the ballotFEC raisednot on file Paul RumbaughSecretary of State - NEOtherOn the ballotFEC raisednot on file Sarah SlatterySecretary of State - NEDemocraticOn the ballotFEC raisednot on file Scott PetersenSecretary of State - NERepublicanOn the ballotFEC raisednot on file

Lost the primary (1)

Lost the 2026 primary for this seat, so not on the November ballot. Kept on the record, not deleted.

Bob EvnenSecretary of State - NERepublicanLost primaryFEC raisednot on file

Official source: https://sos.nebraska.gov/sites/default/files/doc/elections/2026/Final_Statewide_General_Candidate_Filing_List_9.11.26.pdf

Latest verified field polling

Verified = published by the pollster that conducted it, with a public source we link to.

none yet

No verified poll has been published for this race. The Vugol Vector call from our model is below, it is not a poll.

Polling average

no polls yet

No polls on file for this race yet. See latest polls across every race.

Key dates

Official federal election dates for this state from the FEC. Registration deadlines and early voting: see the state election office.

2026-05-12, Primary election: U.S. House
2026-11-03, General election: U.S. House

Source: FEC election dates (public domain).

Lab

Vugol Vector & Vugol Attention

Vugol Attention 42 Vugol Vector R · Held

Vugol Me model signals, not polls. Verified polling is in the Polls section above.

Vugol Me Attention (attention intensity)

Vugol Attention intensity index 0–100 · not a poll · normalized nightly

attention-1.0.0

42OUT OF 100Moderate attention

Vugol Attention percentile50th

7-day momentum24 / 100

Source breadth50% of tracked

Vugol Vector

Proprietary ensemble model · a call, not a probability · model confidence: medium

vector-1.1.0

Democratic leanOpen centerRepublican lean

AnchoredHeldTiltingOpenTiltingHeldAnchored

Completeness2 of 7 inputs (national, pres) · missing: prior, incumbent, money, pulse, poll

Evidenceno audit release · fundamentals only

Freshnessoldest input 2026-11-13 (yesterday)

The breakdown of this call (the model's multi-signal input matrix, input by input) is on Ultra Pro plans.

Vugol Tensor

How far this call can miss · a range, not a prediction · no verified poll here, so the range is wider and untested

tensor-1.0.0

Centre R+11.5. Four times in five the result lands between R+2.1 and R+20.9; nine in ten between D+0.6 and R+23.6. Chance the Democrat finishes ahead: 6%.

Polls have missed by about four points in a typical race and they miss together. How Tensor works →

Desk data: daily telemetry

Per-source daily series, CSV export and the Vugol Vector breakdown · paid plans

Sources

Roster, official filings; fundraising from FEC datapoints where on file (https://api.open.fec.gov/).
Vugol Attention inputs, Wikipedia pageviews (https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/) and GDELT news volume and tone (https://www.gdeltproject.org/).
Polls and results, individual polls and primary results listed on the Wikipedia election article (CC BY-SA 4.0), each poll linked to the pollster's release; money and election dates from the FEC (public domain). How rows are checked.
Models attention-1.0.0 · vector-1.1.0 · attention inputs SHA-256 e815f6157269 · methodology · license CC BY 4.0 (data license).

Vugol Vector band: R · Held. Have a say in the Vugol race poll; it is open to signed-in voters and never feeds these numbers.

The four Vugol signals, side by side

They answer different questions and are kept apart. Full method: Methodology.

Vugol Vector: Our call for every race if today’s polls hold. A snapshot, not a win probability or a vote share.
Vugol Tensor: How sure we are: ranges and chamber-control odds around the Vector, built from past polling error. An experiment about uncertainty, not a better guess.
Vugol Attention: How much news and online noise a race gets, 0 to 100. It measures noise, not support: a high score says nothing about who is ahead.
Vugol Pulse: Our daily thumbs-up or thumbs-down question for readers. Anyone can answer, so it describes our readers, not the public. It is not a vote and never enters a poll average or any other signal.