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Election 1952 Results

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1952 presidential election in South Dakota

Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican) beat Adlai Stevenson II (Democrat) in South Dakota in 1952, 69.3% to 30.7%, a margin of 38.5 points and 113,431 votes.

South Dakota voted 27.7 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+10.9.

The Republican hold continued from 1948, when Thomas E. Dewey won.

Republicans led in 68 of the 68 counties as they stood then. The largest, Minnehaha, cast 32,949 votes and went to the Republican by 43.0 points. The closest was Armstrong (Ext), where 1 vote 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
Dwight D. Eisenhower won Republican 203,857 69.3%
Adlai Stevenson II Democratic 90,426 30.7%
Total294,283

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Minnehaha 9,390 28.5% 23,559 71.5% 32,949 R+43.0
Brown 6,140 39.1% 9,581 60.9% 15,721 R+21.9
Pennington 4,470 28.8% 11,029 71.2% 15,499 R+42.3
Beadle 3,443 34.7% 6,487 65.3% 9,930 R+30.7
Codington 2,974 34.1% 5,750 65.9% 8,724 R+31.8
Davison 3,227 40.3% 4,774 59.7% 8,001 R+19.3
Brookings 1,861 23.7% 5,988 76.3% 7,849 R+52.6
Lawrence 1,701 23.4% 5,559 76.6% 7,260 R+53.1
Yankton 2,220 31.6% 4,802 68.4% 7,022 R+36.8
Charles Mix 2,790 45.7% 3,316 54.3% 6,106 R+8.6
Roberts 2,524 41.4% 3,566 58.6% 6,090 R+17.1
Day 2,351 39.2% 3,648 60.8% 5,999 R+21.6
Spink 1,983 34.9% 3,693 65.1% 5,676 R+30.1
Lincoln 1,212 21.6% 4,387 78.4% 5,599 R+56.7
Turner 984 17.6% 4,604 82.4% 5,588 R+64.8
Lake 1,466 26.7% 4,020 73.3% 5,486 R+46.6
Hutchinson 875 16.8% 4,322 83.2% 5,197 R+66.3
Union 1,645 32.7% 3,393 67.3% 5,038 R+34.7
Bon Homme 1,658 34.4% 3,157 65.6% 4,815 R+31.1
Grant 1,500 31.7% 3,234 68.3% 4,734 R+36.6
Kingsbury 1,029 21.7% 3,703 78.3% 4,732 R+56.5
Clay 1,412 30.0% 3,302 70.0% 4,714 R+40.1
Meade 1,334 30.0% 3,109 70.0% 4,443 R+40.0
Tripp 1,445 34.1% 2,790 65.9% 4,235 R+31.8
McCook 1,127 27.4% 2,991 72.6% 4,118 R+45.3
Fall River 1,008 26.0% 2,863 74.0% 3,871 R+47.9
Hughes 933 24.1% 2,932 75.9% 3,865 R+51.7
Gregory 1,372 35.8% 2,463 64.2% 3,835 R+28.4
Moody 1,089 28.5% 2,728 71.5% 3,817 R+42.9
Clark 1,076 28.6% 2,692 71.4% 3,768 R+42.9
Walworth 1,262 34.8% 2,369 65.2% 3,631 R+30.5
Butte 837 23.7% 2,689 76.3% 3,526 R+52.5
Marshall 1,135 33.6% 2,248 66.4% 3,383 R+32.9
McPherson 436 13.0% 2,915 87.0% 3,351 R+74.0
Hamlin 954 28.5% 2,391 71.5% 3,345 R+43.0
Hand 937 29.3% 2,262 70.7% 3,199 R+41.4
Edmunds 1,013 31.7% 2,178 68.3% 3,191 R+36.5
Deuel 879 27.8% 2,279 72.2% 3,158 R+44.3
Perkins 849 28.2% 2,160 71.8% 3,009 R+43.6
Miner 1,029 34.4% 1,964 65.6% 2,993 R+31.2
Brule 1,392 46.9% 1,578 53.1% 2,970 R+6.3
Sanborn 905 33.9% 1,761 66.1% 2,666 R+32.1
Douglas 528 20.1% 2,103 79.9% 2,631 R+59.9
Corson 789 31.0% 1,757 69.0% 2,546 R+38.0
Aurora 997 40.6% 1,458 59.4% 2,455 R+18.8
Custer 652 27.4% 1,725 72.6% 2,377 R+45.1
Faulk 738 31.3% 1,619 68.7% 2,357 R+37.4
Lyman 666 29.9% 1,561 70.1% 2,227 R+40.2
Potter 579 26.3% 1,625 73.7% 2,204 R+47.5
Jerauld 677 30.8% 1,520 69.2% 2,197 R+38.4
Hanson 773 36.9% 1,320 63.1% 2,093 R+26.1
Dewey 660 33.7% 1,301 66.3% 1,961 R+32.7
Shannon 774 44.7% 957 55.3% 1,731 R+10.6
Campbell 168 9.9% 1,536 90.1% 1,704 R+80.3
Todd 611 37.3% 1,025 62.7% 1,636 R+25.3
Haakon 396 25.2% 1,176 74.8% 1,572 R+49.6
Hyde 393 27.2% 1,051 72.8% 1,444 R+45.6
Bennett 516 37.1% 873 62.9% 1,389 R+25.7
Sully 352 29.0% 860 71.0% 1,212 R+41.9
Ziebach 372 32.3% 779 67.7% 1,151 R+35.4
Mellette 347 30.6% 787 69.4% 1,134 R+38.8
Harding 294 26.7% 809 73.3% 1,103 R+46.7
Jones 323 30.4% 739 69.6% 1,062 R+39.2
Stanley 289 29.4% 695 70.6% 984 R+41.3
Jackson 254 29.5% 607 70.5% 861 R+41.0
Buffalo 259 38.5% 413 61.5% 672 R+22.9
Washabaugh (Ext) 147 31.5% 319 68.5% 466 R+36.9
Armstrong (Ext) 5 45.5% 6 54.5% 11 R+9.1

Counties as they stood in 1952; 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