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Election 2000 Results

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2000 presidential election in South Dakota

George W. Bush (Republican) beat Al Gore (Democrat) in South Dakota in 2000, 60.3% to 37.6%, a margin of 22.7 points and 71,896 votes.

South Dakota voted 23.2 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+0.5.

The Republican hold continued from 1996, when Bob Dole won.

Republicans led in 61 of the 66 counties and Democrats in 5. The largest, Minnehaha, cast 61,369 votes and went to the Republican by 10.4 points. The closest was Moody, where 43 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
George W. Bush won Republican 190,700 60.3%
Al Gore Democratic 118,804 37.6%
All other candidates 6,765 2.1%
Total316,269

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Minnehaha 27,042 44.1% 33,428 54.5% 899 61,369 R+10.4
Pennington 11,123 30.4% 24,696 67.6% 738 36,557 R+37.1
Brown 7,173 43.3% 9,060 54.7% 323 16,556 R+11.4
Codington 4,192 37.6% 6,718 60.3% 228 11,138 R+22.7
Brookings 4,546 41.4% 6,212 56.6% 226 10,984 R+15.2
Lincoln 3,844 36.4% 6,546 62.0% 166 10,556 R+25.6
Lawrence 2,797 29.7% 6,327 67.3% 282 9,406 R+37.5
Meade 2,267 24.2% 6,870 73.4% 229 9,366 R+49.1
Yankton 3,596 41.1% 4,904 56.1% 240 8,740 R+15.0
Beadle 3,216 41.6% 4,347 56.2% 176 7,739 R+14.6
Hughes 2,212 29.4% 5,188 68.9% 134 7,534 R+39.5
Davison 2,936 39.0% 4,445 59.0% 147 7,528 R+20.0
Union 2,358 40.9% 3,265 56.6% 149 5,772 R+15.7
Lake 2,331 45.2% 2,724 52.9% 99 5,154 R+7.6
Clay 2,638 51.7% 2,363 46.3% 104 5,105 D+5.4
Roberts 1,700 41.7% 2,237 54.9% 137 4,074 R+13.2
Turner 1,414 35.3% 2,514 62.8% 76 4,004 R+27.5
Grant 1,475 38.5% 2,235 58.4% 120 3,830 R+19.8
Butte 840 22.8% 2,760 74.8% 89 3,689 R+52.0
Hutchinson 1,052 29.0% 2,497 68.9% 76 3,625 R+39.9
Charles Mix 1,300 36.3% 2,205 61.6% 74 3,579 R+25.3
Custer 955 26.7% 2,495 69.8% 123 3,573 R+43.1
Fall River 1,133 33.0% 2,185 63.7% 111 3,429 R+30.7
Spink 1,274 38.8% 1,957 59.6% 53 3,284 R+20.8
Day 1,492 46.7% 1,623 50.8% 82 3,197 R+4.1
Bon Homme 1,162 37.0% 1,901 60.6% 76 3,139 R+23.5
Tripp 799 28.9% 1,909 69.0% 57 2,765 R+40.1
Moody 1,318 48.2% 1,361 49.8% 56 2,735 R+1.6
Kingsbury 1,049 38.5% 1,612 59.1% 66 2,727 R+20.6
Hamlin 923 33.9% 1,731 63.6% 69 2,723 R+29.7
McCook 965 36.7% 1,610 61.2% 56 2,631 R+24.5
Walworth 721 28.2% 1,758 68.9% 74 2,553 R+40.6
Gregory 718 31.8% 1,487 65.9% 52 2,257 R+34.1
Deuel 926 41.6% 1,245 56.0% 53 2,224 R+14.3
Brule 818 37.7% 1,268 58.5% 81 2,167 R+20.8
Clark 791 37.5% 1,272 60.3% 45 2,108 R+22.8
Marshall 939 45.2% 1,097 52.8% 43 2,079 R+7.6
Hand 565 27.8% 1,419 69.9% 47 2,031 R+42.0
Edmunds 676 34.0% 1,257 63.3% 53 1,986 R+29.3
Oglala Lakota 1,667 85.4% 252 12.9% 34 1,953 D+72.5
Douglas 363 21.2% 1,311 76.7% 35 1,709 R+55.5
Dewey 880 52.3% 761 45.3% 40 1,681 D+7.1
Perkins 297 18.4% 1,237 76.6% 80 1,614 R+58.2
Potter 356 23.8% 1,112 74.4% 26 1,494 R+50.6
Todd 993 66.5% 478 32.0% 23 1,494 D+34.5
Hanson 457 32.2% 944 66.4% 20 1,421 R+34.3
McPherson 295 20.8% 1,073 75.7% 49 1,417 R+54.9
Aurora 513 36.3% 847 59.9% 53 1,413 R+23.6
Lyman 482 34.8% 875 63.1% 29 1,386 R+28.4
Stanley 402 29.1% 955 69.2% 24 1,381 R+40.0
Faulk 388 29.2% 904 68.0% 37 1,329 R+38.8
Sanborn 468 36.9% 767 60.5% 33 1,268 R+23.6
Miner 523 41.3% 724 57.2% 19 1,266 R+15.9
Corson 549 44.2% 629 50.6% 65 1,243 R+6.4
Haakon 164 14.5% 938 83.1% 27 1,129 R+68.6
Jerauld 468 41.7% 624 55.6% 30 1,122 R+13.9
Bennett 377 33.8% 712 63.8% 27 1,116 R+30.0
Jackson 319 30.7% 687 66.1% 34 1,040 R+35.4
Campbell 147 16.0% 739 80.6% 31 917 R+64.6
Sully 209 24.0% 633 72.7% 29 871 R+48.7
Hyde 218 26.1% 592 70.9% 25 835 R+44.8
Mellette 222 30.3% 495 67.5% 16 733 R+37.2
Harding 64 8.8% 650 88.9% 17 731 R+80.2
Ziebach 314 43.6% 384 53.3% 23 721 R+9.7
Jones 137 20.6% 509 76.7% 18 664 R+56.0
Buffalo 256 62.7% 140 34.3% 12 408 D+28.4

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