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Election 2024 Results

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2024 presidential election in South Dakota

Donald Trump (Republican) beat Kamala Harris (Democrat) in South Dakota in 2024, 63.4% to 34.2%, a margin of 29.2 points and 125,222 votes.

South Dakota voted 27.7 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+1.5.

The Republican hold continued from 2020, when Donald Trump also won.

Republicans led in 61 of the 66 counties and Democrats in 5. The largest, Minnehaha, cast 93,986 votes and went to the Republican by 12.7 points. The closest was Ziebach, where 22 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 272,081 63.4%
Kamala Harris Democratic 146,859 34.2%
All other candidates 9,982 2.3%
Total428,922

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Minnehaha 39,923 42.5% 51,842 55.2% 2,221 93,986 R+12.7
Pennington 20,051 35.4% 35,009 61.9% 1,520 56,580 R+26.4
Lincoln 12,981 35.7% 22,621 62.2% 791 36,393 R+26.5
Brown 6,075 35.6% 10,645 62.5% 323 17,043 R+26.8
Lawrence 5,074 32.9% 9,904 64.3% 431 15,409 R+31.3
Brookings 5,978 40.0% 8,575 57.4% 386 14,939 R+17.4
Meade 3,421 23.3% 10,887 74.2% 364 14,672 R+50.9
Codington 3,840 28.4% 9,349 69.2% 321 13,510 R+40.8
Yankton 3,883 35.8% 6,650 61.4% 299 10,832 R+25.5
Davison 2,743 29.9% 6,208 67.6% 226 9,177 R+37.8
Union 2,548 28.7% 6,160 69.4% 168 8,876 R+40.7
Hughes 2,838 33.6% 5,379 63.8% 218 8,435 R+30.1
Beadle 2,017 28.8% 4,826 68.8% 167 7,010 R+40.1
Custer 1,567 26.1% 4,313 71.9% 121 6,001 R+45.8
Lake 1,978 33.5% 3,819 64.7% 109 5,906 R+31.2
Clay 2,944 52.0% 2,574 45.5% 139 5,657 D+6.5
Butte 942 18.5% 4,024 79.2% 116 5,082 R+60.6
Turner 1,044 23.0% 3,374 74.3% 120 4,538 R+51.3
Fall River 1,030 24.1% 3,135 73.4% 109 4,274 R+49.3
Roberts 1,560 37.6% 2,514 60.6% 75 4,149 R+23.0
Hutchinson 755 20.2% 2,918 78.1% 63 3,736 R+57.9
Grant 946 26.1% 2,594 71.5% 90 3,630 R+45.4
Charles Mix 1,000 27.7% 2,551 70.6% 64 3,615 R+42.9
Hamlin 610 18.9% 2,560 79.4% 56 3,226 R+60.4
Moody 1,052 33.0% 2,068 64.8% 69 3,189 R+31.9
Spink 921 29.3% 2,145 68.3% 73 3,139 R+39.0
Oglala Lakota 2,567 83.8% 406 13.3% 89 3,062 D+70.6
McCook 733 24.2% 2,227 73.5% 71 3,031 R+49.3
Bon Homme 697 23.3% 2,236 74.7% 59 2,992 R+51.4
Day 1,000 34.1% 1,876 64.0% 56 2,932 R+29.9
Kingsbury 760 27.1% 1,989 71.0% 52 2,801 R+43.9
Tripp 470 17.7% 2,150 81.0% 34 2,654 R+63.3
Walworth 481 19.5% 1,940 78.7% 45 2,466 R+59.2
Brule 666 27.5% 1,694 69.9% 63 2,423 R+42.4
Deuel 528 23.0% 1,717 74.7% 53 2,298 R+51.7
Gregory 426 18.8% 1,790 79.0% 51 2,267 R+60.2
Todd 1,570 73.8% 497 23.4% 59 2,126 D+50.5
Marshall 782 37.1% 1,288 61.1% 39 2,109 R+24.0
Hanson 399 19.5% 1,611 78.7% 36 2,046 R+59.2
Edmunds 384 18.9% 1,618 79.7% 29 2,031 R+60.8
Dewey 1,032 55.2% 793 42.4% 46 1,871 D+12.8
Clark 415 22.5% 1,382 75.0% 45 1,842 R+52.5
Hand 365 20.7% 1,376 78.0% 23 1,764 R+57.3
Stanley 447 25.8% 1,260 72.6% 28 1,735 R+46.9
Douglas 219 13.2% 1,419 85.6% 20 1,658 R+72.4
Perkins 228 14.3% 1,342 84.3% 21 1,591 R+70.0
Lyman 422 29.2% 993 68.6% 32 1,447 R+39.5
Aurora 302 21.7% 1,056 75.8% 35 1,393 R+54.1
McPherson 188 14.5% 1,087 83.7% 24 1,299 R+69.2
Potter 214 16.5% 1,059 81.6% 25 1,298 R+65.1
Sanborn 259 21.4% 929 76.7% 24 1,212 R+55.3
Miner 293 25.1% 841 72.1% 33 1,167 R+47.0
Corson 495 43.3% 631 55.2% 17 1,143 R+11.9
Faulk 183 16.2% 920 81.4% 27 1,130 R+65.2
Jackson 357 31.6% 753 66.7% 19 1,129 R+35.1
Haakon 105 9.3% 1,004 89.2% 16 1,125 R+79.9
Bennett 389 35.8% 676 62.1% 23 1,088 R+26.4
Jerauld 276 27.6% 708 70.9% 15 999 R+43.2
Sully 168 18.6% 716 79.5% 17 901 R+60.8
Campbell 120 14.4% 706 84.4% 10 836 R+70.1
Harding 48 5.9% 754 92.0% 18 820 R+86.1
Ziebach 366 46.9% 388 49.7% 27 781 R+2.8
Mellette 285 38.5% 434 58.6% 21 740 R+20.1
Hyde 148 21.3% 530 76.3% 17 695 R+55.0
Jones 60 10.9% 477 86.7% 13 550 R+75.8
Buffalo 291 62.4% 164 35.2% 11 466 D+27.3

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