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Election 1932 Results

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1932 presidential election in South Dakota

Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) beat Herbert Hoover (Republican) in South Dakota in 1932, 63.6% to 34.4%, a margin of 29.2 points and 84,303 votes.

South Dakota voted 11.5 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+17.8.

South Dakota changed party: in 1928 it went Republican, for Herbert Hoover.

Democrats led in 68 of the 69 counties as they stood then and Republicans in 1. The largest, Minnehaha, cast 23,273 votes and went to the Democrat by 10.1 points. The closest was Brookings, where 16 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

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Franklin D. Roosevelt won	Democratic	183,515	63.6%
Herbert Hoover	Republican	99,212	34.4%
All other candidates		5,711	2.0%
Total		288,438

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
Minnehaha	12,646 54.3%	10,288 44.2%	339	23,273	D+10.1
Brown	8,669 63.7%	4,639 34.1%	293	13,601	D+29.6
Beadle	6,246 66.8%	2,995 32.0%	105	9,346	D+34.8
Pennington	5,178 58.3%	3,638 41.0%	59	8,875	D+17.4
Davison	5,233 70.0%	2,147 28.7%	100	7,480	D+41.3
Codington	4,806 65.0%	2,538 34.3%	52	7,396	D+30.7
Lawrence	3,106 45.2%	3,708 54.0%	54	6,868	R+8.8
Charles Mix	5,399 78.9%	1,397 20.4%	50	6,846	D+58.5
Yankton	4,930 73.3%	1,693 25.2%	107	6,730	D+48.1
Spink	4,046 61.0%	2,433 36.7%	156	6,635	D+24.3
Brookings	3,247 49.2%	3,231 49.0%	121	6,599	D+0.2
Roberts	4,440 69.7%	1,381 21.7%	547	6,368	D+48.0
Day	3,910 63.2%	1,983 32.0%	298	6,191	D+31.1
Lincoln	3,300 59.4%	2,160 38.8%	100	5,560	D+20.5
Lake	3,090 57.1%	2,222 41.1%	95	5,407	D+16.1
Turner	3,170 58.6%	2,172 40.2%	63	5,405	D+18.5
Hutchinson	3,630 69.9%	1,504 29.0%	58	5,192	D+40.9
Kingsbury	2,808 55.8%	2,135 42.4%	90	5,033	D+13.4
Union	3,530 71.2%	1,381 27.9%	46	4,957	D+43.4
Bon Homme	3,504 71.7%	1,354 27.7%	28	4,886	D+44.0
Tripp	3,647 75.3%	1,147 23.7%	52	4,846	D+51.6
Clay	3,040 65.7%	1,514 32.7%	70	4,624	D+33.0
Meade	2,687 58.3%	1,735 37.7%	186	4,608	D+20.7
Grant	2,887 64.6%	1,515 33.9%	70	4,472	D+30.7
Gregory	3,278 73.3%	1,169 26.1%	25	4,472	D+47.2
McCook	2,884 65.2%	1,436 32.5%	102	4,422	D+32.7
Clark	2,649 61.6%	1,572 36.6%	79	4,300	D+25.0
Hand	2,658 64.8%	1,394 34.0%	53	4,105	D+30.8
Fall River	2,603 64.6%	1,351 33.5%	75	4,029	D+31.1
Moody	2,547 65.2%	1,289 33.0%	70	3,906	D+32.2
Edmunds	2,588 67.5%	1,183 30.8%	65	3,836	D+36.6
Corson	2,403 69.0%	946 27.2%	135	3,484	D+41.8
Marshall	2,137 62.0%	935 27.1%	374	3,446	D+34.9
Perkins	1,852 53.9%	1,406 40.9%	180	3,438	D+13.0
Miner	2,332 68.3%	976 28.6%	108	3,416	D+39.7
Butte	1,684 50.5%	1,594 47.8%	59	3,337	D+2.7
Walworth	2,221 66.9%	1,049 31.6%	50	3,320	D+35.3
Brule	2,465 74.4%	797 24.0%	53	3,315	D+50.3
McPherson	2,650 80.3%	606 18.4%	46	3,302	D+61.9
Sanborn	2,398 73.1%	860 26.2%	23	3,281	D+46.9
Hughes	1,852 56.6%	1,374 42.0%	44	3,270	D+14.6
Hamlin	1,920 59.4%	1,267 39.2%	43	3,230	D+20.2
Aurora	2,304 71.6%	860 26.7%	55	3,219	D+44.9
Douglas	2,005 65.4%	1,045 34.1%	16	3,066	D+31.3
Faulk	1,743 59.5%	1,141 38.9%	46	2,930	D+20.5
Deuel	1,658 59.0%	1,131 40.2%	23	2,812	D+18.7
Lyman	1,879 68.8%	811 29.7%	40	2,730	D+39.1
Jerauld	1,773 66.3%	836 31.3%	64	2,673	D+35.1
Hanson	1,783 67.3%	845 31.9%	22	2,650	D+35.4
Custer	1,548 60.3%	977 38.0%	43	2,568	D+22.2
Potter	1,668 71.0%	660 28.1%	22	2,350	D+42.9
Dewey	1,591 68.4%	710 30.5%	26	2,327	D+37.9
Mellette	1,583 70.2%	657 29.1%	15	2,255	D+41.1
Haakon	1,245 55.7%	797 35.7%	192	2,234	D+20.1
Todd	1,485 73.0%	533 26.2%	16	2,034	D+46.8
Bennett	1,410 73.9%	453 23.7%	45	1,908	D+50.2
Campbell	1,116 58.6%	770 40.4%	18	1,904	D+18.2
Hyde	895 56.1%	678 42.5%	23	1,596	D+13.6
Sully	961 61.2%	559 35.6%	49	1,569	D+25.6
Ziebach	982 66.7%	462 31.4%	29	1,473	D+35.3
Jones	929 63.8%	472 32.4%	54	1,455	D+31.4
Harding	715 49.5%	625 43.3%	104	1,444	D+6.2
Jackson	812 60.4%	499 37.1%	33	1,344	D+23.3
Stanley	757 56.7%	553 41.4%	26	1,336	D+15.3
Shannon	798 63.2%	463 36.7%	1	1,262	D+26.5
Buffalo	634 69.6%	270 29.6%	7	911	D+40.0
Washabaugh (Ext)	612 80.4%	134 17.6%	15	761	D+62.8
Washington (Ext)	342 68.0%	157 31.2%	4	503	D+36.8
Armstrong (Ext)	17 100.0%	0 0.0%		17	D+100.0

Counties as they stood in 1932; 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

Year	Winner	Margin
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

1932 presidential election in South Dakota

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