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Election 1936 Results

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1936 presidential election in South Dakota

Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) beat Alf Landon (Republican) in South Dakota in 1936, 54.0% to 42.5%, a margin of 11.5 points and 34,160 votes.

South Dakota voted 12.7 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+24.3.

The Democratic hold continued from 1932, when Franklin D. Roosevelt also won.

Democrats led in 53 of the 68 counties as they stood then and Republicans in 15. The largest, Minnehaha, cast 26,508 votes and went to the Democrat by 2.9 points. The closest was Butte, where 6 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt won Democratic 160,137 54.0%
Alf Landon Republican 125,977 42.5%
All other candidates 10,358 3.5%
Total296,472

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Minnehaha 13,174 49.7% 12,418 46.8% 916 26,508 D+2.9
Brown 9,177 65.6% 4,505 32.2% 311 13,993 D+33.4
Pennington 5,557 53.3% 4,442 42.6% 429 10,428 D+10.7
Beadle 5,843 64.8% 2,965 32.9% 203 9,011 D+31.9
Lawrence 3,809 43.0% 4,974 56.2% 69 8,852 R+13.2
Davison 4,983 63.8% 2,510 32.2% 312 7,805 D+31.7
Codington 4,256 55.9% 3,005 39.4% 359 7,620 D+16.4
Yankton 4,349 58.5% 2,702 36.3% 387 7,438 D+22.1
Brookings 3,161 43.3% 3,899 53.4% 242 7,302 R+10.1
Charles Mix 4,628 67.0% 2,209 32.0% 75 6,912 D+35.0
Turner 2,923 44.8% 3,214 49.2% 389 6,526 R+4.5
Lincoln 2,541 42.2% 2,918 48.4% 567 6,026 R+6.3
Lake 2,520 41.9% 3,182 53.0% 307 6,009 R+11.0
Roberts 3,820 64.2% 1,934 32.5% 197 5,951 D+31.7
Spink 3,569 60.8% 2,078 35.4% 224 5,871 D+25.4
Hutchinson 2,500 43.1% 2,804 48.3% 497 5,801 R+5.2
Union 3,520 60.8% 1,845 31.9% 420 5,785 D+29.0
Day 3,335 58.2% 2,113 36.9% 281 5,729 D+21.3
Bon Homme 2,959 55.8% 2,236 42.2% 104 5,299 D+13.6
Kingsbury 2,037 40.1% 2,813 55.4% 226 5,076 R+15.3
Clay 3,070 61.0% 1,692 33.6% 273 5,035 D+27.4
McCook 2,536 52.3% 2,117 43.6% 198 4,851 D+8.6
Meade 2,304 49.9% 2,064 44.7% 248 4,616 D+5.2
Moody 2,366 51.9% 1,992 43.7% 202 4,560 D+8.2
Gregory 2,603 57.3% 1,868 41.1% 74 4,545 D+16.2
Tripp 2,708 60.4% 1,693 37.7% 84 4,485 D+22.6
Clark 2,036 49.8% 1,883 46.1% 168 4,087 D+3.7
Grant 2,101 51.8% 1,847 45.5% 111 4,059 D+6.3
Fall River 1,927 48.4% 1,876 47.1% 179 3,982 D+1.3
Edmunds 2,030 52.2% 1,818 46.8% 40 3,888 D+5.5
Walworth 2,212 60.3% 1,420 38.7% 34 3,666 D+21.6
Hamlin 1,622 45.6% 1,857 52.3% 75 3,554 R+6.6
Miner 2,051 57.7% 1,377 38.8% 124 3,552 D+19.0
McPherson 1,556 44.4% 1,921 54.8% 28 3,505 R+10.4
Perkins 1,940 56.6% 1,408 41.1% 77 3,425 D+15.5
Marshall 2,220 65.5% 1,105 32.6% 62 3,387 D+32.9
Brule 2,274 68.6% 982 29.6% 61 3,317 D+39.0
Hughes 1,662 50.2% 1,547 46.7% 103 3,312 D+3.5
Corson 1,781 54.1% 1,408 42.7% 106 3,295 D+11.3
Hand 1,721 53.2% 1,289 39.8% 227 3,237 D+13.3
Sanborn 1,919 59.9% 1,174 36.6% 111 3,204 D+23.3
Douglas 1,680 53.0% 1,418 44.7% 71 3,169 D+8.3
Deuel 1,440 45.7% 1,595 50.6% 118 3,153 R+4.9
Butte 1,519 48.3% 1,525 48.5% 101 3,145 R+0.2
Aurora 1,801 60.8% 1,082 36.5% 80 2,963 D+24.3
Custer 1,519 52.2% 1,365 46.9% 28 2,912 D+5.3
Hanson 1,530 56.5% 1,090 40.3% 88 2,708 D+16.2
Faulk 1,404 55.0% 1,111 43.5% 40 2,555 D+11.5
Jerauld 1,343 53.6% 1,075 42.9% 86 2,504 D+10.7
Lyman 1,321 54.1% 1,090 44.7% 29 2,440 D+9.5
Potter 1,338 58.0% 914 39.6% 54 2,306 D+18.4
Dewey 1,216 53.2% 1,012 44.3% 59 2,287 D+8.9
Campbell 736 36.3% 1,236 61.0% 55 2,027 R+24.7
Todd 1,318 67.0% 624 31.7% 24 1,966 D+35.3
Haakon 948 48.5% 933 47.7% 75 1,956 D+0.8
Mellette 808 52.9% 711 46.6% 8 1,527 D+6.4
Hyde 683 45.1% 795 52.5% 36 1,514 R+7.4
Harding 819 59.3% 524 37.9% 39 1,382 D+21.3
Bennett 807 59.8% 530 39.3% 12 1,349 D+20.5
Shannon 634 47.5% 667 49.9% 35 1,336 R+2.5
Ziebach 737 55.9% 561 42.5% 21 1,319 D+13.3
Jones 620 49.1% 608 48.1% 36 1,264 D+0.9
Stanley 629 53.5% 495 42.1% 52 1,176 D+11.4
Sully 437 38.4% 667 58.6% 34 1,138 R+20.2
Jackson 593 53.7% 481 43.6% 30 1,104 D+10.1
Buffalo 410 51.6% 368 46.3% 17 795 D+5.3
Washabaugh (Ext) 313 55.8% 238 42.4% 10 561 D+13.4
Washington (Ext) 234 59.7% 158 40.3% 392 D+19.4

Counties as they stood in 1936; 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