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Election 1928 Results

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1928 presidential election in South Dakota

Herbert Hoover (Republican) beat Al Smith (Democrat) in South Dakota in 1928, 60.2% to 39.2%, a margin of 21.0 points and 54,943 votes.

South Dakota voted 3.6 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+17.4.

The Republican hold continued from 1924, when Calvin Coolidge won.

Republicans led in 63 of the 69 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 6. The largest, Minnehaha, cast 20,608 votes and went to the Republican by 33.7 points. The closest was Armstrong (Ext), where 7 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Herbert Hoover won Republican 157,603 60.2%
Al Smith Democratic 102,660 39.2%
All other candidates 1,594 0.6%
Total261,857

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Minnehaha 6,805 33.0% 13,741 66.7% 62 20,608 R+33.7
Brown 5,065 40.4% 7,266 58.0% 191 12,522 R+17.6
Beadle 3,168 38.2% 5,094 61.4% 31 8,293 R+23.2
Codington 3,299 46.6% 3,762 53.1% 26 7,087 R+6.5
Pennington 2,266 32.7% 4,645 67.0% 25 6,936 R+34.3
Davison 2,729 41.5% 3,821 58.1% 21 6,571 R+16.6
Brookings 1,915 29.3% 4,586 70.0% 46 6,547 R+40.8
Spink 2,451 38.6% 3,868 60.9% 33 6,352 R+22.3
Charles Mix 3,039 49.5% 3,087 50.3% 14 6,140 R+0.8
Lawrence 1,785 30.0% 4,141 69.6% 21 5,947 R+39.6
Day 2,642 45.0% 3,180 54.2% 43 5,865 R+9.2
Yankton 2,841 48.7% 2,971 50.9% 27 5,839 R+2.2
Roberts 2,619 46.6% 2,966 52.7% 40 5,625 R+6.2
Kingsbury 1,352 27.8% 3,499 71.9% 17 4,868 R+44.1
Lincoln 1,364 28.1% 3,463 71.4% 23 4,850 R+43.3
Lake 1,744 36.3% 3,048 63.4% 15 4,807 R+27.1
Turner 1,380 29.0% 3,362 70.6% 17 4,759 R+41.6
Union 2,106 46.4% 2,415 53.2% 19 4,540 R+6.8
Tripp 2,099 46.4% 2,396 53.0% 24 4,519 R+6.6
Bon Homme 2,166 48.8% 2,262 50.9% 13 4,441 R+2.2
Meade 1,441 33.4% 2,845 66.0% 22 4,308 R+32.6
Gregory 2,001 46.7% 2,274 53.0% 12 4,287 R+6.4
Grant 1,656 39.3% 2,508 59.5% 52 4,216 R+20.2
Hutchinson 1,898 46.6% 2,145 52.6% 34 4,077 R+6.1
Clark 1,370 33.7% 2,665 65.5% 36 4,071 R+31.8
Clay 1,474 36.3% 2,573 63.4% 10 4,057 R+27.1
McCook 1,758 43.9% 2,234 55.8% 13 4,005 R+11.9
Hand 1,397 36.4% 2,430 63.3% 14 3,841 R+26.9
Moody 1,416 40.1% 2,108 59.6% 11 3,535 R+19.6
Fall River 1,258 36.1% 2,216 63.5% 15 3,489 R+27.5
Edmunds 1,597 47.6% 1,743 52.0% 15 3,355 R+4.4
Miner 1,341 40.0% 1,990 59.4% 21 3,352 R+19.4
Perkins 1,010 30.6% 2,262 68.6% 27 3,299 R+38.0
Marshall 1,315 40.4% 1,858 57.1% 79 3,252 R+16.7
Corson 1,374 42.3% 1,847 56.9% 24 3,245 R+14.6
Hughes 1,171 37.7% 1,912 61.6% 23 3,106 R+23.9
Hamlin 1,088 35.1% 1,959 63.2% 53 3,100 R+28.1
Walworth 1,216 39.3% 1,854 60.0% 22 3,092 R+20.6
Brule 1,599 51.9% 1,431 46.5% 50 3,080 D+5.5
Faulk 1,135 37.2% 1,907 62.5% 11 3,053 R+25.3
Aurora 1,426 47.5% 1,552 51.7% 23 3,001 R+4.2
Sanborn 1,321 45.3% 1,576 54.1% 17 2,914 R+8.8
Deuel 999 34.4% 1,869 64.4% 34 2,902 R+30.0
Butte 840 29.3% 1,988 69.4% 38 2,866 R+40.1
Douglas 879 31.0% 1,949 68.7% 10 2,838 R+37.7
Lyman 1,222 45.0% 1,488 54.7% 8 2,718 R+9.8
Hanson 1,129 41.6% 1,576 58.1% 6 2,711 R+16.5
McPherson 1,468 54.1% 1,234 45.5% 9 2,711 D+8.6
Jerauld 875 36.2% 1,517 62.7% 28 2,420 R+26.5
Potter 1,100 46.8% 1,240 52.8% 10 2,350 R+6.0
Dewey 996 43.4% 1,293 56.4% 4 2,293 R+13.0
Custer 715 32.6% 1,464 66.8% 11 2,190 R+34.2
Haakon 663 34.0% 1,255 64.3% 33 1,951 R+30.3
Campbell 588 30.2% 1,346 69.1% 13 1,947 R+38.9
Mellette 927 49.3% 943 50.1% 11 1,881 R+0.9
Todd 831 51.0% 789 48.4% 9 1,629 D+2.6
Hyde 608 38.5% 961 60.8% 11 1,580 R+22.3
Harding 368 26.0% 1,032 72.8% 18 1,418 R+46.8
Sully 415 29.3% 999 70.5% 3 1,417 R+41.2
Ziebach 615 44.6% 759 55.0% 6 1,380 R+10.4
Bennett 544 41.3% 766 58.2% 7 1,317 R+16.9
Jones 422 32.7% 857 66.4% 11 1,290 R+33.7
Stanley 437 36.9% 739 62.4% 8 1,184 R+25.5
Jackson 417 37.1% 704 62.6% 3 1,124 R+25.5
Shannon 601 55.9% 469 43.6% 5 1,075 D+12.3
Buffalo 387 48.7% 405 51.0% 2 794 R+2.3
Washabaugh (Ext) 282 48.6% 294 50.7% 4 580 R+2.1
Washington (Ext) 228 52.7% 205 47.3% 433 D+5.3
Armstrong (Ext) 7 100.0% 0 0.0% 7 D+100.0

Counties as they stood in 1928; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

South Dakota in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+29.2
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+26.2
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+29.8
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+18.0
2008 John McCain (R) R+8.4
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+21.5
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+22.7
1996 Bob Dole (R) R+3.5
1992 George H. W. Bush (R) R+3.5
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+6.3
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+26.5
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+28.8
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+1.5
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+8.6
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+11.3
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+11.2
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+16.4
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+16.8
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+38.5
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.8
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+16.7
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+14.8
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+11.5
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+29.2
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+21.0
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+36.3
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+41.0
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+3.9
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+23.8
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+49.4
1900 William McKinley (R) R+15.6
1896 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+0.2
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+36.6