Friday 1 April - Sunday 10 April 2016 (presumably): County Conventions elect delegates to the State Convention.

This Presidential Primary coincides with a state/local primary. These coinciding primaries tend to have an impact upon voter turnout.

Tuesday 10 May 2016: Nebraska Presidential Primary. Hours 8:00a-8:00p CDT / 7:00a-7:00p MDT (1300-0100 UTC). The polls open and close at the same GMT/UTC time, that is, polls open and close at a particular local time in the advanced time zone and open and close one hour earlier local time in the lagging time zone. Delegate Selection: Winner-Take-All Primary. Voter Eligibility: Closed Primary.

Presidential Primary
Source: Nebraska Secretary of State.
Status: Official. Retrieved: Tuesday 21 June 2016.
Included in Nationwide vote.

Tuesday 10 May 2016: All 36 of Nebraska's delegates to the Republican National Convention are pledged to in today's Nebraska Presidential Primary [Nebraska Republican Party State Constitution Article VII (3)(a); Proposed Rules 2016 Nebraska Republican Party State Convention, Rule 14].

Saturday 14 May 2016 (presumably): The Nebraska State Republican Convention convenes.

• Congressional District Caucuses made up of the State Convention delegates from each of Nebraska's 3 congressional districts elect the 9 district National Convention delegates (3 per congressional district) according to the results of the primary.
• The State Convention as a whole selects 24 (10 base at-large plus 14 bonus) at-large delegates to the Republican National Convention according to the results of the primary. [NEBRASKA REPUBLICAN PARTY CONSTITUTION, Article VII Section 3., Amended 6 June 2015].
• The 3 party leaders, the National Committeeman, the National Committeewoman, and the chairman of Nebraska's Republican Party, will attend the convention as pledged delegates by virtue of their position. [In each year when a President of the United States is to be elected, the State Convention shall elect a National Committeeman and a National Committeewoman to take office at the close of the succeeding National Convention. - NEBRASKA REPUBLICAN PARTY CONSTITUTION, Article IV Section 1, Amended 6 June 2015]

National Convention delegates are bound to vote for the candidate they pledged support for the first 2 ballots at the National Convention unless the candidate received less than 35% of the vote.

LB1048 was signed into law on 9 April 2014. The bill requires:

• state parties to file their delegate selection plan with the Secretary of State by 1 December of the year before [32-701 (1)];
• that at least 80% of the party's delegates are committed to a candidate based on the results of a caucus, the primary, or both [32-701 (1)(a) and (b)];
• that the plan specifies how delegates are committed [32-701 (1)(c)];
• that the plan specify whether the delegates are bound proportionally(with a threshold of at least 15%) or winner take all [32-701 (1)(c)].

11 January 2016: Nebraska state Senator John Murante introduced LB 871 which would create a presidential preference primary on the 1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday in March.