Lincoln’s 2025 City General Election featured six city council candidates, several school board seats, an airport authority seat, and a ballot question on whether source-of-income discrimination should be illegal in the city.
The top three vote getters in the race for city council will take at-large seats on the board.
The first election results dropped at 8:00 PM as the polls close, consisting of early vote ballots. Another batch of counted ballots releases at 9:15 p.m., 10:15 p.m., and the last at 11:15 p.m.
The Lancaster County Election Office noted the 10 p.m. batch release as unofficial final results. They say approximately 7,700 Early Vote Ballots will be counted on Friday, May 9th. All Provisional Ballots (216 regular and 4 voter identification) will be counted on Wednesday, May 14th.
Available results are available below.
— Last Updated at 10:00 p.m. —
* [candidate/subject] – [vote total] | incumbents marked with ‘*’ | sorted high to low | winners
City Council
- Sändra Washington* (D) – 22,736
- Tom Beckius* (D) – 22,418
- Bennie Shobe* (D) – 21,113
- Stan Parker (R) – 18,301
- Jerry Shoecraft (R) – 17,904
- Maher Aurang Zeb (R) – 6,977
LPS Board
District 1
- John Goodwin (D) – 2,746
- John Cartier (D) – 1,372
District 3
- Barbara Baier* (D) – 2,007
- Seth Duncan (R) – 931
District 7
- Marilyn Johnson-Farr (D) – 2,788
- Cheryl Meyer-Thompson (R) – 2,321
Lincoln Airport Authority
- Vanessa Emlich (D) – 20,353
- Tom Trumble (R) – 16,025
Lincoln for Fair Housing
Lincoln voters will decide whether to ban housing discrimination based on a renter or buyer’s source of income. The measure made it onto the ballot after supporters gathered enough signatures from Lincoln residents earlier this year.
- A vote “FOR” will implement the ban – 25,450
- A vote “AGAINST” will maintain the status quo – 13,216
Raw results can be found below.