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Election 1976 Results

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1976 presidential election in South Dakota

Gerald Ford (Republican) beat Jimmy Carter (Democrat) in South Dakota in 1976, 50.4% to 48.9%, a margin of 1.5 points and 4,437 votes.

South Dakota voted 3.5 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+2.1.

The Republican hold continued from 1972, when Richard Nixon won.

Republicans led in 36 of the 67 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 31. The largest, Minnehaha, cast 45,556 votes and went to the Republican by 2.7 points. The closest was Ziebach, 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
Gerald Ford won Republican 151,505 50.4%
Jimmy Carter Democratic 147,068 48.9%
All other candidates 2,105 0.7%
Total300,678

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Minnehaha 22,068 48.4% 23,286 51.1% 202 45,556 R+2.7
Pennington 10,058 42.4% 13,352 56.3% 289 23,699 R+13.9
Brown 8,888 53.4% 7,609 45.7% 136 16,633 D+7.7
Brookings 4,685 46.7% 5,278 52.6% 63 10,026 R+5.9
Beadle 4,846 50.1% 4,758 49.2% 62 9,666 D+0.9
Codington 4,680 50.8% 4,504 48.9% 29 9,213 D+1.9
Davison 4,510 54.7% 3,688 44.7% 50 8,248 D+10.0
Yankton 3,987 49.3% 4,029 49.8% 71 8,087 R+0.5
Lawrence 3,102 41.6% 4,206 56.5% 141 7,449 R+14.8
Hughes 2,506 38.3% 3,997 61.2% 33 6,536 R+22.8
Lincoln 2,957 48.6% 3,105 51.0% 22 6,084 R+2.4
Meade 2,478 43.6% 3,096 54.4% 116 5,690 R+10.9
Lake 2,930 53.5% 2,530 46.2% 16 5,476 D+7.3
Clay 2,593 48.9% 2,647 49.9% 61 5,301 R+1.0
Hutchinson 2,062 42.0% 2,822 57.5% 22 4,906 R+15.5
Union 2,540 52.3% 2,297 47.3% 23 4,860 D+5.0
Roberts 2,890 60.0% 1,915 39.7% 15 4,820 D+20.2
Spink 2,650 56.6% 2,003 42.8% 26 4,679 D+13.8
Turner 1,906 41.3% 2,694 58.3% 18 4,618 R+17.1
Grant 2,398 53.7% 2,051 45.9% 15 4,464 D+7.8
Charles Mix 2,593 59.0% 1,779 40.5% 22 4,394 D+18.5
Day 2,610 61.3% 1,617 38.0% 30 4,257 D+23.3
Bon Homme 2,154 52.9% 1,897 46.6% 22 4,073 D+6.3
Tripp 1,822 47.7% 1,980 51.9% 15 3,817 R+4.1
Walworth 1,516 40.7% 2,187 58.7% 25 3,728 R+18.0
Kingsbury 1,762 48.7% 1,844 51.0% 11 3,617 R+2.3
Fall River 1,537 42.5% 2,046 56.6% 32 3,615 R+14.1
McCook 1,822 50.9% 1,744 48.7% 12 3,578 D+2.2
Butte 1,366 39.3% 2,055 59.2% 51 3,472 R+19.8
Moody 1,942 56.7% 1,475 43.0% 11 3,428 D+13.6
Gregory 1,658 52.7% 1,475 46.9% 12 3,145 D+5.8
Hand 1,477 49.3% 1,510 50.4% 7 2,994 R+1.1
Marshall 1,721 58.0% 1,233 41.6% 13 2,967 D+16.4
Edmunds 1,629 55.6% 1,294 44.1% 9 2,932 D+11.4
Hamlin 1,402 48.9% 1,452 50.7% 12 2,866 R+1.7
Clark 1,376 48.5% 1,449 51.1% 13 2,838 R+2.6
Brule 1,534 56.3% 1,175 43.2% 14 2,723 D+13.2
Deuel 1,465 55.2% 1,177 44.4% 10 2,652 D+10.9
Perkins 1,262 48.7% 1,298 50.1% 32 2,592 R+1.4
Custer 995 41.4% 1,373 57.1% 37 2,405 R+15.7
McPherson 693 29.3% 1,662 70.2% 12 2,367 R+40.9
Douglas 975 42.5% 1,315 57.3% 5 2,295 R+14.8
Miner 1,289 60.2% 839 39.2% 12 2,140 D+21.0
Aurora 1,269 60.2% 831 39.4% 9 2,109 D+20.8
Potter 908 44.2% 1,136 55.4% 8 2,052 R+11.1
Faulk 1,063 54.9% 868 44.8% 6 1,937 D+10.1
Sanborn 1,025 53.6% 881 46.1% 6 1,912 D+7.5
Corson 967 53.0% 846 46.4% 10 1,823 D+6.6
Lyman 831 47.8% 892 51.3% 16 1,739 R+3.5
Hanson 1,005 58.9% 693 40.6% 9 1,707 D+18.3
Jerauld 845 50.6% 821 49.2% 3 1,669 D+1.4
Dewey 706 46.0% 820 53.5% 8 1,534 R+7.4
Todd 826 57.6% 583 40.7% 25 1,434 D+16.9
Campbell 489 35.2% 897 64.5% 5 1,391 R+29.3
Haakon 477 36.4% 812 61.9% 23 1,312 R+25.5
Hyde 572 45.3% 687 54.4% 4 1,263 R+9.1
Stanley 548 46.1% 637 53.6% 4 1,189 R+7.5
Sully 505 44.3% 630 55.3% 4 1,139 R+11.0
Bennett 481 43.3% 610 54.9% 20 1,111 R+11.6
Shannon 756 69.9% 301 27.8% 24 1,081 D+42.1
Mellette 429 45.2% 508 53.5% 12 949 R+8.3
Harding 459 48.6% 470 49.7% 16 945 R+1.2
Jones 374 42.0% 515 57.9% 1 890 R+15.8
Jackson 313 36.2% 532 61.5% 20 865 R+25.3
Ziebach 370 48.6% 369 48.5% 22 761 D+0.1
Washabaugh (Ext) 276 37.6% 229 31.2% 229 734 D+6.4
Buffalo 240 55.3% 194 44.7% 434 D+10.6

Counties as they stood in 1976; 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