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Election 1944 Results

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1944 presidential election in South Dakota

Thomas E. Dewey (Republican) beat Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) in South Dakota in 1944, 58.3% to 41.7%, a margin of 16.7 points and 38,654 votes.

South Dakota voted 24.1 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+7.5.

The Republican hold continued from 1940, when Wendell Willkie won.

Republicans led in 58 of the 68 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 10. The largest, Minnehaha, cast 24,136 votes and went to the Republican by 15.3 points. The closest was Armstrong (Ext), where 4 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
Thomas E. Dewey won Republican 135,365 58.3%
Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic 96,711 41.7%
Total232,076

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Minnehaha 10,216 42.3% 13,920 57.7% 24,136 R+15.3
Brown 6,352 53.1% 5,611 46.9% 11,963 D+6.2
Pennington 3,517 40.1% 5,246 59.9% 8,763 R+19.7
Beadle 3,842 51.6% 3,610 48.4% 7,452 D+3.1
Codington 3,120 48.2% 3,348 51.8% 6,468 R+3.5
Brookings 2,073 33.4% 4,136 66.6% 6,209 R+33.2
Davison 3,222 52.4% 2,929 47.6% 6,151 D+4.8
Roberts 3,024 52.6% 2,721 47.4% 5,745 D+5.3
Yankton 2,359 41.6% 3,313 58.4% 5,672 R+16.8
Lawrence 1,866 34.6% 3,528 65.4% 5,394 R+30.8
Day 2,487 49.0% 2,593 51.0% 5,080 R+2.1
Lincoln 1,625 33.0% 3,298 67.0% 4,923 R+34.0
Charles Mix 2,701 55.4% 2,171 44.6% 4,872 D+10.9
Turner 1,304 26.9% 3,549 73.1% 4,853 R+46.3
Spink 2,285 49.1% 2,365 50.9% 4,650 R+1.7
Union 2,057 45.1% 2,501 54.9% 4,558 R+9.7
Bon Homme 1,981 43.7% 2,553 56.3% 4,534 R+12.6
Lake 1,543 34.3% 2,956 65.7% 4,499 R+31.4
Hutchinson 699 15.5% 3,799 84.5% 4,498 R+68.9
Clay 1,796 47.7% 1,970 52.3% 3,766 R+4.6
Grant 1,475 39.3% 2,278 60.7% 3,753 R+21.4
Kingsbury 1,156 31.3% 2,541 68.7% 3,697 R+37.5
Gregory 1,613 43.8% 2,067 56.2% 3,680 R+12.3
McCook 1,163 31.6% 2,516 68.4% 3,679 R+36.8
Tripp 1,640 46.2% 1,911 53.8% 3,551 R+7.6
Moody 1,420 40.6% 2,080 59.4% 3,500 R+18.9
Clark 1,209 38.4% 1,936 61.6% 3,145 R+23.1
Deuel 1,180 38.2% 1,910 61.8% 3,090 R+23.6
Meade 1,164 37.8% 1,912 62.2% 3,076 R+24.3
Fall River 1,122 36.7% 1,938 63.3% 3,060 R+26.7
Marshall 1,363 47.4% 1,511 52.6% 2,874 R+5.1
Hamlin 1,020 36.0% 1,811 64.0% 2,831 R+27.9
Walworth 1,222 44.4% 1,533 55.6% 2,755 R+11.3
Butte 928 33.7% 1,824 66.3% 2,752 R+32.6
Edmunds 961 35.3% 1,762 64.7% 2,723 R+29.4
Hand 1,146 42.4% 1,558 57.6% 2,704 R+15.2
McPherson 410 15.2% 2,290 84.8% 2,700 R+69.6
Miner 1,090 41.4% 1,544 58.6% 2,634 R+17.2
Hughes 938 35.9% 1,676 64.1% 2,614 R+28.2
Brule 1,412 58.5% 1,002 41.5% 2,414 D+17.0
Perkins 995 42.9% 1,325 57.1% 2,320 R+14.2
Sanborn 998 45.2% 1,212 54.8% 2,210 R+9.7
Douglas 719 32.7% 1,483 67.3% 2,202 R+34.7
Aurora 1,011 46.5% 1,163 53.5% 2,174 R+7.0
Custer 712 35.6% 1,288 64.4% 2,000 R+28.8
Faulk 896 45.1% 1,090 54.9% 1,986 R+9.8
Jerauld 731 37.5% 1,217 62.5% 1,948 R+24.9
Hanson 864 44.7% 1,070 55.3% 1,934 R+10.7
Corson 786 43.8% 1,008 56.2% 1,794 R+12.4
Potter 717 41.7% 1,001 58.3% 1,718 R+16.5
Lyman 630 42.1% 867 57.9% 1,497 R+15.8
Dewey 511 35.9% 913 64.1% 1,424 R+28.2
Todd 683 48.1% 737 51.9% 1,420 R+3.8
Hyde 454 35.0% 842 65.0% 1,296 R+29.9
Campbell 208 16.6% 1,047 83.4% 1,255 R+66.9
Bennett 566 53.4% 494 46.6% 1,060 D+6.8
Harding 493 47.2% 552 52.8% 1,045 R+5.6
Shannon 480 46.1% 562 53.9% 1,042 R+7.9
Haakon 381 37.4% 638 62.6% 1,019 R+25.2
Mellette 410 43.0% 544 57.0% 954 R+14.0
Sully 300 32.9% 612 67.1% 912 R+34.2
Jones 264 36.2% 465 63.8% 729 R+27.6
Ziebach 354 51.7% 331 48.3% 685 D+3.4
Stanley 234 37.9% 384 62.1% 618 R+24.3
Buffalo 250 43.6% 324 56.4% 574 R+12.9
Jackson 213 38.5% 340 61.5% 553 R+23.0
Washabaugh (Ext) 146 51.2% 139 48.8% 285 D+2.5
Armstrong (Ext) 4 100.0% 0 0.0% 4 D+100.0

Counties as they stood in 1944; 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