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South Dakota

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President margin by year

Place winner margin

1892–2024 · D minus R

Full record · 1892 → 2024

2024StatewideR+29.2

66 counties by 2024 margin · County presidential returns

County results66 areas · 2024 President vote · select an area for its full record

Oglala LakotaD+70.6Dem 2,567Rep 406Other 89Total 3,062ToddD+50.5Dem 1,570Rep 497Other 59Total 2,126BuffaloD+27.3Dem 291Rep 164Other 11Total 466DeweyD+12.8Dem 1,032Rep 793Other 46Total 1,871ClayD+6.5Dem 2,944Rep 2,574Other 139Total 5,657ZiebachR+2.8Dem 366Rep 388Other 27Total 781CorsonR+11.9Dem 495Rep 631Other 17Total 1,143MinnehahaR+12.7Dem 39,923Rep 51,842Other 2,221Total 93,986BrookingsR+17.4Dem 5,978Rep 8,575Other 386Total 14,939MelletteR+20.1Dem 285Rep 434Other 21Total 740RobertsR+23.0Dem 1,560Rep 2,514Other 75Total 4,149MarshallR+24.0Dem 782Rep 1,288Other 39Total 2,109YanktonR+25.5Dem 3,883Rep 6,650Other 299Total 10,832BennettR+26.4Dem 389Rep 676Other 23Total 1,088PenningtonR+26.4Dem 20,051Rep 35,009Other 1,520Total 56,580LincolnR+26.5Dem 12,981Rep 22,621Other 791Total 36,393BrownR+26.8Dem 6,075Rep 10,645Other 323Total 17,043DayR+29.9Dem 1,000Rep 1,876Other 56Total 2,932HughesR+30.1Dem 2,838Rep 5,379Other 218Total 8,435LakeR+31.2Dem 1,978Rep 3,819Other 109Total 5,906LawrenceR+31.3Dem 5,074Rep 9,904Other 431Total 15,409MoodyR+31.9Dem 1,052Rep 2,068Other 69Total 3,189JacksonR+35.1Dem 357Rep 753Other 19Total 1,129DavisonR+37.8Dem 2,743Rep 6,208Other 226Total 9,177SpinkR+39.0Dem 921Rep 2,145Other 73Total 3,139LymanR+39.5Dem 422Rep 993Other 32Total 1,447BeadleR+40.1Dem 2,017Rep 4,826Other 167Total 7,010UnionR+40.7Dem 2,548Rep 6,160Other 168Total 8,876CodingtonR+40.8Dem 3,840Rep 9,349Other 321Total 13,510BruleR+42.4Dem 666Rep 1,694Other 63Total 2,423Charles MixR+42.9Dem 1,000Rep 2,551Other 64Total 3,615JerauldR+43.2Dem 276Rep 708Other 15Total 999KingsburyR+43.9Dem 760Rep 1,989Other 52Total 2,801GrantR+45.4Dem 946Rep 2,594Other 90Total 3,630CusterR+45.8Dem 1,567Rep 4,313Other 121Total 6,001StanleyR+46.9Dem 447Rep 1,260Other 28Total 1,735MinerR+47.0Dem 293Rep 841Other 33Total 1,167Fall RiverR+49.3Dem 1,030Rep 3,135Other 109Total 4,274McCookR+49.3Dem 733Rep 2,227Other 71Total 3,031MeadeR+50.9Dem 3,421Rep 10,887Other 364Total 14,672TurnerR+51.3Dem 1,044Rep 3,374Other 120Total 4,538Bon HommeR+51.4Dem 697Rep 2,236Other 59Total 2,992DeuelR+51.7Dem 528Rep 1,717Other 53Total 2,298ClarkR+52.5Dem 415Rep 1,382Other 45Total 1,842AuroraR+54.1Dem 302Rep 1,056Other 35Total 1,393HydeR+55.0Dem 148Rep 530Other 17Total 695SanbornR+55.3Dem 259Rep 929Other 24Total 1,212HandR+57.3Dem 365Rep 1,376Other 23Total 1,764HutchinsonR+57.9Dem 755Rep 2,918Other 63Total 3,736WalworthR+59.2Dem 481Rep 1,940Other 45Total 2,466HansonR+59.2Dem 399Rep 1,611Other 36Total 2,046GregoryR+60.2Dem 426Rep 1,790Other 51Total 2,267HamlinR+60.4Dem 610Rep 2,560Other 56Total 3,226ButteR+60.6Dem 942Rep 4,024Other 116Total 5,082EdmundsR+60.8Dem 384Rep 1,618Other 29Total 2,031SullyR+60.8Dem 168Rep 716Other 17Total 901TrippR+63.3Dem 470Rep 2,150Other 34Total 2,654PotterR+65.1Dem 214Rep 1,059Other 25Total 1,298FaulkR+65.2Dem 183Rep 920Other 27Total 1,130McPhersonR+69.2Dem 188Rep 1,087Other 24Total 1,299PerkinsR+70.0Dem 228Rep 1,342Other 21Total 1,591CampbellR+70.1Dem 120Rep 706Other 10Total 836DouglasR+72.4Dem 219Rep 1,419Other 20Total 1,658JonesR+75.8Dem 60Rep 477Other 13Total 550HaakonR+79.9Dem 105Rep 1,004Other 16Total 1,125HardingR+86.1Dem 48Rep 754Other 18Total 820

People and households

Who lives here

Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.

Race · ethnicity · ancestry

Communities and origins

German33.1%12.5%

Norwegian10.4%—

Irish9.9%9.4%

English7.7%9.5%

American4.4%5.3%

Dutch3.4%—

Swedish2.5%—

Danish0.8%—

Oglala Sioux2.0%—

Rosebud Sioux1.1%—

Mexican2.6%11.3%

Guatemalan0.5%0.5%

Puerto Rican0.4%1.8%

Salvadoran0.3%0.7%

African American†1.1%9.9%

Ethiopian0.3%—

African0.2%0.5%

Burmese0.2%—

Filipino0.2%0.9%

Asian Indian0.2%1.4%

Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.

Age and life stage

Measure	South Dakota	United States
Median age	38.2	39.1
Age 18–24	9.2%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	18.0%	17.2%

Household economy

Measure	South Dakota	United States
Median household income	$75,081	$84,427
Poverty rate	12.0%	12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	31.9%	35.6%

Housing and tenure

Measure	South Dakota	United States
Owner-occupied homes	68.6%	65.2%
Renter-occupied homes	31.4%	34.8%
Median home value	$257,400	$332,700
Median gross rent (monthly)	$946	$1,413
Renters paying 30%+ of income	39.8%	51.1%
Vacant housing units	10.5%	10.1%

Getting to work

Measure	South Dakota	United States
Mean commute	17.8 min	26.4 min
Commutes 60 minutes or more	3.6%	8.6%
Drives alone to work	77.0%	68.8%
Takes public transit	0.5%	3.2%
Works from home	9.7%	15.1%

Languages at home

Measure	South Dakota	United States
Speaks a non-English language at home	7.1%	22.3%
Spanish	2.6%	13.6%
Other languages	1.9%	0.8%

Religious landscape

Measure	South Dakota	United States
Catholic	14.8%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	20.1%	16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted	44.9%	51.5%
Mainline Protestant	18.0%	5.2%

Origins and service

Measure	South Dakota	United States
Foreign-born residents	4.0%	14.1%
Naturalized citizens	1.7%	7.4%
Not U.S. citizens	2.3%	6.8%
Veterans (18+)	7.9%	6.2%
Income inequality (Gini)	0.449	0.483

American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations · American Community Survey 2024 — housing and tenure (B25003, B25002, B25077, B25064, B25070), commuting (B08013, B08303, B08301), origins and service (B05002, B21001, B19083).

President results by year

2024 turnout 65.1% of 669,731 citizens 18+

HarrisDemocratic34.2%146,859TrumpRepublican63.4%272,081KennedyOther1.7%7,204

R+29.2

Lead: 125,222
Total: 428,922
vs nation: R+27.7
Turnout: 65.1%

BidenDemocratic35.6%150,471TrumpRepublican61.8%261,043JorgensenLibertarian2.6%11,095

R+26.2

Lead: 110,572
Total: 422,609
vs nation: R+30.6
Turnout: 66.3%

ClintonDemocratic31.7%117,466TrumpRepublican61.5%227,731JohnsonLibertarian5.6%20,850

R+29.8

Lead: 110,265
Total: 370,111
vs nation: R+31.9
Turnout: 59.5%

ObamaDemocratic39.9%145,039RomneyRepublican57.9%210,610JohnsonLibertarian1.6%5,795

R+18.0

Lead: 65,571
Total: 363,815
vs nation: R+21.9
Turnout: —

ObamaDemocratic44.7%170,924MccainRepublican53.2%203,054NaderIndependent1.1%4,267

R+8.4

Lead: 32,130
Total: 381,975
vs nation: R+15.7
Turnout: —

KerryDemocratic38.6%149,974BushRepublican59.8%232,646NaderIndependent1.1%4,320

R+21.3

Lead: 82,672
Total: 389,007
vs nation: R+18.8
Turnout: —

GoreDemocratic37.6%118,804BushRepublican60.3%190,700BuchananReform Party1.1%3,322

R+22.7

Lead: 71,896
Total: 316,269
vs nation: R+23.3
Turnout: —

ClintonDemocratic43.0%139,333DoleRepublican46.5%150,543OtherAll other candidates10.0%32,389

R+3.5

Lead: 11,210
Total: 323,737
vs nation: R+12.0
Turnout: —

South Dakota voted Republican by 29.2 points in 2024, Donald Trump taking 272,081 votes to 146,859, one of the widest state margins in the country. It is settled ground: the state has gone Republican in every presidential election since 1968, and the 2024 result moved three points further that way from R+26.2 in 2020. Sixty-one of its sixty-six counties went Republican. The reddest is Harding County, in the far northwest corner, which voted Republican by 86.1 points. Across the agricultural counties the floor sits deep, and the margins widen the farther the map runs from the cities.

The only Democratic ground is the Native American reservation. American Indian residents make up most of the 7.5 percent of South Dakotans counted outside the larger race groups, concentrated on the Pine Ridge, Rosebud, Cheyenne River, and Standing Rock reservations. Oglala Lakota County, which is Pine Ridge, voted Democratic by 70.6 points — 2,567 votes to 406 — among the widest margins of any county in the United States. Todd County, on the Rosebud Reservation, ran D+50.5; Buffalo County, on Crow Creek, D+27.3; and Dewey County, on Cheyenne River, D+12.8. Those four, plus Clay County around the University of South Dakota, are the state’s only five Democratic counties.

Everything else holds near the Republican floor, including the cities. Minnehaha County, which holds Sioux Falls and casts more than one in five South Dakota votes, is the largest county in the state and still voted Republican by 12.7 points — its narrowest ground anywhere on the urban map. Pennington County, around Rapid City, ran R+26.4, and fast-growing Lincoln County, in the Sioux Falls suburbs, R+26.5. The profile underneath is middle-income and evangelical: 31.9 percent of adults hold a bachelor’s degree, 30th of the fifty states, and the state ranks 14th in evangelical Protestant adherents. Sen. Mike Rounds (R) seeks a third term in 2026 against Democrat Julian Beaudion.

current representation

Current officeholders

RLarry RhodenGovernor

RTony VenhuizenLieutenant Governor

RMonae JohnsonSecretary of State

RMarty JackleyAttorney General

RJosh HaederTreasurer

RRich SattgastAuditor

RBrock GreenfieldCommissioner of School and Public Lands

RGary HansonPublic Utilities Commissioner

RKristie FiegenPublic Utilities Commissioner

RChris NelsonPublic Utilities Commissioner

RJohn ThuneU.S. Senate+0.43

RMike RoundsU.S. Senate+0.35

U.S. House1 seat · R 1

RSD-01Dusty Johnson

Statewide officers curated as of 2026-06-27 (Ballotpedia / state SoS); U.S. delegation from Voteview HSall_members.csv.

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