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Election 1996 Results

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1996 presidential election in South Dakota

Bob Dole (Republican) beat Bill Clinton (Democrat) in South Dakota in 1996, 46.5% to 43.0%, a margin of 3.5 points and 11,210 votes.

South Dakota voted 12.0 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+8.5.

The Republican hold continued from 1992, when George H. W. Bush won.

Republicans led in 41 of the 66 counties and Democrats in 25. The largest, Minnehaha, cast 62,004 votes and went to the Democrat by 3.8 points. The closest was Corson, 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
Bob Dole won Republican 150,543 46.5%
Bill Clinton Democratic 139,333 43.0%
Ross Perot Reform 31,250 9.7%
All other candidates 2,700 0.8%
Total323,826

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Minnehaha 29,790 48.0% 27,432 44.2% 4,782 62,004 D+3.8
Pennington 12,784 36.0% 19,293 54.3% 3,439 35,516 R+18.3
Brown 7,913 48.1% 6,801 41.4% 1,733 16,447 D+6.8
Brookings 5,105 45.3% 5,112 45.4% 1,055 11,272 R+0.1
Codington 4,722 42.7% 4,995 45.2% 1,338 11,055 R+2.5
Lawrence 3,568 37.8% 4,430 46.9% 1,444 9,442 R+9.1
Meade 2,960 32.3% 4,984 54.3% 1,232 9,176 R+22.1
Yankton 3,775 42.8% 3,885 44.0% 1,166 8,826 R+1.2
Lincoln 3,643 42.4% 4,201 48.9% 743 8,587 R+6.5
Beadle 3,984 46.4% 3,670 42.8% 927 8,581 D+3.7
Hughes 2,788 35.4% 4,469 56.8% 611 7,868 R+21.4
Davison 3,364 44.7% 3,371 44.8% 793 7,528 R+0.1
Clay 2,980 53.5% 2,008 36.0% 584 5,572 D+17.4
Union 2,378 45.7% 2,234 42.9% 595 5,207 D+2.8
Lake 2,526 49.4% 1,966 38.4% 626 5,118 D+10.9
Roberts 2,186 50.5% 1,646 38.0% 501 4,333 D+12.5
Grant 1,805 44.2% 1,782 43.6% 496 4,083 D+0.6
Turner 1,682 41.5% 1,970 48.6% 399 4,051 R+7.1
Charles Mix 1,913 47.4% 1,711 42.4% 411 4,035 D+5.0
Hutchinson 1,285 32.9% 2,177 55.7% 449 3,911 R+22.8
Spink 1,636 44.6% 1,651 45.0% 382 3,669 R+0.4
Butte 1,132 31.0% 1,947 53.2% 578 3,657 R+22.3
Day 1,840 52.1% 1,282 36.3% 411 3,533 D+15.8
Fall River 1,357 39.2% 1,636 47.3% 465 3,458 R+8.1
Bon Homme 1,569 45.7% 1,428 41.6% 439 3,436 D+4.1
Custer 1,122 33.4% 1,740 51.8% 495 3,357 R+18.4
Tripp 1,088 34.7% 1,680 53.6% 364 3,132 R+18.9
Kingsbury 1,357 45.2% 1,297 43.2% 347 3,001 D+2.0
Walworth 939 33.7% 1,461 52.4% 389 2,789 R+18.7
Moody 1,443 52.2% 1,024 37.0% 300 2,767 D+15.1
Hamlin 1,101 39.9% 1,352 49.0% 305 2,758 R+9.1
McCook 1,166 42.8% 1,292 47.4% 265 2,723 R+4.6
Gregory 923 37.9% 1,208 49.7% 302 2,433 R+11.7
Brule 1,091 45.4% 981 40.8% 332 2,404 D+4.6
Deuel 1,090 46.4% 955 40.7% 304 2,349 D+5.7
Edmunds 973 42.1% 1,055 45.7% 282 2,310 R+3.5
Oglala Lakota 1,926 84.3% 253 11.1% 105 2,284 D+73.2
Hand 803 35.4% 1,187 52.3% 278 2,268 R+16.9
Marshall 1,185 52.8% 861 38.3% 200 2,246 D+14.4
Clark 956 42.6% 998 44.5% 288 2,242 R+1.9
Todd 1,380 69.3% 482 24.2% 129 1,991 D+45.1
Dewey 1,114 56.3% 657 33.2% 208 1,979 D+23.1
Douglas 524 27.4% 1,210 63.4% 175 1,909 R+35.9
McPherson 463 26.7% 1,080 62.2% 192 1,735 R+35.6
Potter 534 31.4% 979 57.5% 189 1,702 R+26.1
Perkins 460 27.2% 983 58.1% 249 1,692 R+30.9
Aurora 664 41.8% 709 44.7% 214 1,587 R+2.8
Hanson 541 35.3% 801 52.2% 192 1,534 R+16.9
Lyman 646 42.4% 726 47.7% 151 1,523 R+5.3
Miner 739 49.6% 571 38.3% 179 1,489 D+11.3
Sanborn 647 45.0% 630 43.8% 161 1,438 D+1.2
Faulk 493 35.5% 726 52.3% 170 1,389 R+16.8
Stanley 454 32.9% 795 57.5% 133 1,382 R+24.7
Jerauld 656 48.1% 530 38.9% 178 1,364 D+9.2
Corson 539 41.5% 533 41.0% 228 1,300 D+0.5
Haakon 284 22.0% 887 68.8% 118 1,289 R+46.8
Jackson 423 36.2% 646 55.3% 100 1,169 R+19.1
Bennett 507 44.3% 539 47.1% 99 1,145 R+2.8
Sully 321 31.3% 592 57.8% 112 1,025 R+26.4
Campbell 202 20.8% 623 64.2% 145 970 R+43.4
Ziebach 483 51.9% 375 40.3% 72 930 D+11.6
Hyde 309 34.2% 493 54.5% 102 904 R+20.4
Mellette 302 37.8% 417 52.3% 79 798 R+14.4
Harding 151 19.2% 537 68.4% 97 785 R+49.2
Jones 184 25.2% 463 63.5% 82 729 R+38.3
Buffalo 465 72.7% 134 20.9% 41 640 D+51.7

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