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Election 2016 Results

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2016 presidential election in South Dakota

Donald Trump (Republican) beat Hillary Clinton (Democrat) in South Dakota in 2016, 61.5% to 31.7%, a margin of 29.8 points and 110,263 votes.

South Dakota voted 31.9 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+2.1.

The Republican hold continued from 2012, when Mitt Romney won.

Republicans led in 61 of the 66 counties and Democrats in 5. The largest, Minnehaha, cast 78,263 votes and went to the Republican by 14.6 points. The closest was Ziebach, where 15 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
Donald Trump won Republican 227,721 61.5%
Hillary Clinton Democratic 117,458 31.7%
Gary Johnson Libertarian 20,850 5.6%
All other candidates 4,064 1.1%
Total370,093

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Minnehaha 30,610 39.1% 42,043 53.7% 5,610 78,263 R+14.6
Pennington 14,074 29.5% 29,804 62.4% 3,865 47,743 R+32.9
Lincoln 8,076 32.0% 15,499 61.4% 1,656 25,231 R+29.4
Brown 5,452 33.8% 9,613 59.7% 1,049 16,114 R+25.8
Brookings 4,879 38.5% 6,748 53.2% 1,053 12,680 R+14.7
Lawrence 3,356 28.3% 7,411 62.6% 1,075 11,842 R+34.2
Codington 3,174 27.2% 7,764 66.5% 731 11,669 R+39.3
Meade 2,223 19.1% 8,441 72.6% 957 11,621 R+53.5
Yankton 3,301 34.3% 5,659 58.8% 663 9,623 R+24.5
Hughes 2,450 30.0% 5,174 63.3% 551 8,175 R+33.3
Davison 2,355 29.6% 5,157 64.9% 440 7,952 R+35.2
Union 2,227 28.2% 5,290 67.0% 380 7,897 R+38.8
Lake 2,314 34.1% 4,038 59.5% 434 6,786 R+25.4
Beadle 1,912 28.2% 4,455 65.8% 405 6,772 R+37.6
Clay 2,608 51.4% 2,109 41.6% 352 5,069 D+9.8
Custer 1,121 23.7% 3,293 69.8% 307 4,721 R+46.0
Butte 696 16.0% 3,357 77.2% 298 4,351 R+61.2
Turner 961 23.2% 2,937 70.8% 252 4,150 R+47.6
Roberts 1,540 39.6% 2,144 55.1% 205 3,889 R+15.5
Grant 971 27.2% 2,382 66.8% 211 3,564 R+39.6
Fall River 821 23.0% 2,511 70.5% 231 3,563 R+47.4
Charles Mix 935 27.2% 2,382 69.4% 116 3,433 R+42.1
Hutchinson 692 20.6% 2,517 74.8% 156 3,365 R+54.2
Bon Homme 704 23.7% 2,105 70.8% 165 2,974 R+47.1
Spink 919 31.1% 1,854 62.8% 178 2,951 R+31.7
Moody 1,043 35.6% 1,731 59.0% 159 2,933 R+23.5
Oglala Lakota 2,510 86.4% 241 8.3% 154 2,905 D+78.1
Hamlin 555 20.1% 2,051 74.3% 156 2,762 R+54.2
Day 974 35.5% 1,627 59.2% 146 2,747 R+23.8
Tripp 462 17.6% 2,069 78.7% 99 2,630 R+61.1
McCook 623 24.1% 1,794 69.3% 170 2,587 R+45.3
Kingsbury 703 27.6% 1,680 65.9% 168 2,551 R+38.3
Walworth 457 18.4% 1,896 76.5% 124 2,477 R+58.1
Brule 571 25.0% 1,565 68.4% 152 2,288 R+43.4
Todd 1,505 70.8% 487 22.9% 133 2,125 D+47.9
Gregory 391 18.7% 1,600 76.5% 100 2,091 R+57.8
Deuel 570 27.4% 1,366 65.7% 144 2,080 R+38.3
Hanson 424 21.1% 1,497 74.6% 85 2,006 R+53.5
Marshall 754 38.7% 1,056 54.2% 137 1,947 R+15.5
Edmunds 380 19.8% 1,433 74.7% 105 1,918 R+54.9
Hand 334 18.4% 1,391 76.5% 93 1,818 R+58.1
Dewey 888 52.0% 723 42.3% 97 1,708 D+9.7
Clark 398 24.0% 1,139 68.7% 120 1,657 R+44.7
Perkins 188 11.7% 1,333 83.0% 85 1,606 R+71.3
Douglas 214 13.3% 1,338 83.4% 53 1,605 R+70.0
Stanley 329 21.0% 1,148 73.3% 90 1,567 R+52.3
Lyman 369 26.0% 977 68.8% 75 1,421 R+42.8
Aurora 340 24.2% 974 69.2% 93 1,407 R+45.1
Potter 215 16.1% 1,071 80.1% 51 1,337 R+64.0
Corson 535 45.5% 588 50.0% 52 1,175 R+4.5
Bennett 412 35.9% 666 58.0% 71 1,149 R+22.1
McPherson 192 16.9% 892 78.5% 53 1,137 R+61.6
Sanborn 241 21.5% 819 72.9% 63 1,123 R+51.5
Faulk 204 18.2% 858 76.7% 56 1,118 R+58.5
Jackson 323 29.5% 722 65.9% 50 1,095 R+36.4
Miner 281 26.4% 706 66.4% 77 1,064 R+39.9
Haakon 77 7.4% 936 89.7% 31 1,044 R+82.3
Jerauld 264 27.3% 648 67.0% 55 967 R+39.7
Sully 137 15.9% 679 78.9% 45 861 R+63.0
Campbell 105 12.6% 704 84.7% 22 831 R+72.1
Harding 38 4.9% 695 90.3% 37 770 R+85.3
Ziebach 353 46.0% 368 48.0% 46 767 R+2.0
Hyde 125 18.1% 543 78.7% 22 690 R+60.6
Mellette 238 34.8% 402 58.9% 43 683 R+24.0
Jones 69 12.4% 450 80.6% 39 558 R+68.3
Buffalo 296 60.4% 171 34.9% 23 490 D+25.5

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