Political party strength in South Dakota facts for kids
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of South Dakota:
- Governor
- Lieutenant Governor
- Secretary of State
- Attorney General
- State Auditor
- State Treasurer
- Commissioner of School and Public Lands
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- State Senate
- State House of Representatives
- State Public Utilities Commission
- State delegation to the U.S. Senate
- State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's candidate received the state's electoral votes.
The parties are as follows: Democratic (D), Independent (I), Populist (P), Republican (R), and a tie or coalition within a group of elected officials.
| Year | Executive offices | State Legislature | Pub. Util. Comm. | United States Congress | Electoral College votes | |||||||||
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| Governor | Lt. Governor | Sec. of State | Atty. Gen. | Auditor | Treasurer | Comm. of Lands | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | |||
| 1889 | Arthur C. Mellette (R) | James H. Fletcher (R) | Amund O. Ringsrud (R) | Robert Dollard (R) | L. C. Taylor (R) | W. W. Taylor (R) | Osner H. Parker (R) | 37R, 4D, 4I | 106R, 13D, 2P, 2I, 1 Fus. | Richard F. Pettigrew (R) | Gideon C. Moody (R) | 2R | ||
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| 1891 | George H. Hoffman (R) | Thomas H. Ruth (R) | 22R, 10I, 8D, 3P, 2? | 58D, 33I, 20R, 10P, 1 Fus. | James H. Kyle (P) | |||||||||
| 1892 | Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw Reid (R)  |
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| 1893 | Charles H. Sheldon (R) | Charles N. Herreid (R) | Thomas Thorson (R) | Coe I. Crawford (R) | J. E. Hipple (R) | 35R, 4D, 3I, 1P | 69R, 8I, 4D, 2P | |||||||
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| 1895 | K L. Philpps (R) | J.L. Lockhurt (R) | 35R, 3D, 3P, 3 Fus., 1I | 69R, 11P, 2D, 2I | 3R | |||||||||
| 1896 | William McKinley and Garret Hobart (R)  |
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| 1897 | Andrew E. Lee (P) | Daniel T. Hindman (R) | William H. Roddle (R) | Melvin Grigsby (R) | J. E. Mayhew (R) | 20R, 15 Fus., 6P, 2D | 39R, 18 Fus., 17P, 9D, 1I | 3P | James H. Kyle (R) | 2P | ||||
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| 1899 | Andrew E. Lee (F) | John T. Kean (R) | John L. Pyle (R) | J. D. Reeves (R) | John Schaber (R) | David Eastman (R) | 31R, 6 Fus., 4D, 4P | 61R, 15 Fus., 9D, 2P | 2P, 1R | 2R | ||||
| 1900 | William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt (R) |
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| 1901 | Charles N. Herreid (R) | George W. Snow (R) | O. C. Berg (R) | 41R, 2 Fus., 1D, 1P | 79R, 7D, 1 Fus. | 2R, 1P | Robert J. Gamble (R) | Alfred B. Kittredge (R) | ||||||
| 1902 | A. W. Burtt (R) | |||||||||||||
| 1903 | Philo Hall (R) | J. F. Halladay (R) | C.W. Collins (R) | C.J. Bach (R) | 41R, 3D, 1 Fus. | 77R, 8D, 2 Fus. | 3R | |||||||
| 1904 | Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks (R) |
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| 1905 | Samuel H. Elrod (R) | John E. McDougall (R) | David D. Wipf (R) | 42R, 2P, 1D | 86R, 2D, 1 Fus. | |||||||||
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| 1907 | Coe I. Crawford (R) | Howard C. Shober (R) | S. Wesley Clark (R) | John Hirning (R) | C. Cassill (R) | O. C. Dokken (R) | 35R, 8D, 1P, 1 Fus. | 80R, 9D | ||||||
| 1908 | William Howard Taft and James S. Sherman (R) |
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| 1909 | Robert S. Vessey (R) | Samuel C. Polley (R) | G. Johnson (R) | 38R, 6D, 1P | 92R, 9D, 1P, 1I | Coe I. Crawford (R) | ||||||||
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| 1911 | Frank M. Byrne (R) | Royal C. Johnson (R) | H. B. Anderson (R) | F. F. Brinkler (R) | 32R, 11D, 1P, 1I | 97R, 5D, 1P, 1I | ||||||||
| 1912 | Theodore Roosevelt and Hiram Johnson (P) |
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| 1913 | Frank M. Byrne (R) | Edward Lincoln Abel (R) | Frank Galsner(R) | A. W. Ewert (R) | 34R, 11D | 89R, 13D, 1I | Thomas Sterling (R) | 3R | ||||||
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| 1915 | Peter Norbeck (R) | Frank M. Rood (R) | Clarence C. Caldwell (R) | J. E. Handlin (R) | Fred Hepperle (R) | 84R, 19D | Edwin S. Johnson (D) | 2R, 1D | ||||||
| 1916 | Charles Evans Hughes and Charles W. Fairbanks (R) |
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| 1917 | Peter Norbeck (R) | William H. McMaster (R) | Mr. Helgerson (R) | N. E. Knight (R) | 35R, 10D | 89R, 14D | ||||||||
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| 1919 | C. A. Burkhart | Byron S. Payne (R) | Jay Reeves (R) | 43R, 2D | 88R, 11D, 3I, 1? | |||||||||
| 1920 | Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge (R) |
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| 1921 | William H. McMaster (R) | Carl Gunderson (R) | W. S. O'Brein (R) | 44R, 1D | 95R, 4D, 4I | Peter Norbeck (R) | 3R | |||||||
| 1922 | Clarence E. Coyne (R) | |||||||||||||
| 1923 | Buell F. Jones (R) | E. A. Jones (R) | 34R, 9D, 2I | 84R, 12D, 5I, 1 Fus. | ||||||||||
| 1924 | Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes (R) |
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| 1925 | Carl Gunderson (R) | Alva Clark Forney (R) | J. L. Driscoll (R) | O. J. Englstorm (R) | 35R, 9D, 1FL | 85R, 15D, 2I, 1 Fus. | William H. McMaster (R) | |||||||
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| 1927 | William J. Bulow (D) | Hyatt E. Covey (R) | Gladys Pyle (R) | A. J. Moodie (R) | 29R, 16D | 77R, 25D, 1? | ||||||||
| 1928 | Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis (R) |
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| 1929 | John T. Grigsby (D) | Merrill Q. Sharpe (R) | William M. Dunn (R) | 33R, 12D | 82R, 21D | |||||||||
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| 1931 | Warren E. Green (R) | Odell K. Whitney (R) | Elizabeth Coyne (R) | A. C. Goodhope (R) | 31R, 14D | 79R, 24D | William J. Bulow (D) | |||||||
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner (D) |
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| 1933 | Tom Berry (D) | Hans Ustrud (D) | Myrtle Morrison (D) | Walter Conway (D) | George O'Neill (D) | F. Stewart (D) | Ben Strool (D) | 30D, 15R | 69D, 34R | 2R, 1D | 2D | |||
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| 1935 | Robert Peterson (D) | 32D, 13R | 63D, 40R | 2D, 1R | ||||||||||
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| 1937 | Leslie Jensen (R) | Donald McMurchie (R) | Goldie Wells (D) | Clair Roddewig (D) | Raymond A. Kelly (D) | W.H. Hinselman (D) | 23R, 22D | 66R, 37D | 2R, 1D | Herbert E. Hitchcock (D) | 1D, 1R | |||
| 1938 | Gladys Pyle (R) | |||||||||||||
| 1939 | Harlan J. Bushfield (R) | Olive A. Ringsrud (R) | Leo A. Temmey (R) | W. W. Warner (R) | W. G. Douglas (R) | Earl Hammerquest (R) | 30R, 5D | 62R, 13D | 3R | John Chandler Gurney (R) | 2R | |||
| 1940 | Wendell L. Willkie and Charles L. McNary (R) |
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| 1941 | A. C. Miller (R) | 31R, 4D | 65R, 10D | |||||||||||
| 1942 | John N. Thompson | |||||||||||||
| 1943 | Merrell Q. Sharpe (R) | L. M. Larsen (R) | George T. Mickelson (R) | E. V. Youngquist (R) | John A. Lunden (R) | 69R, 6D | Harlan J. Bushfield (R) | |||||||
| 1944 | Thomas E. Dewey and John W. Bricker (R) |
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| 1945 | Sioux K. Grigsby (R) | Steve E. Anderson | Hazel Dean | 35R, 0D | 72R, 3D | |||||||||
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| 1947 | George T. Mickelson (R) | Annamae Riff (R) | Sigurd Anderson (R) | C.E. Buehler | 71R, 4D | |||||||||
| 1948 | Thomas E. Dewey and Earl Warren (R) |
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| 1949 | Rex A. Terry (R) | Renard Linn (R) | 27R, 8D | 64R, 11D | Karl E. Mundt (R) | |||||||||
| 1950 | James O. Gilkerson | |||||||||||||
| 1951 | Sigurd Anderson (R) | Geraldine Ostroot (R) | Ralph A. Dunham (R) | T. Mehlaf (R) | 29R, 6D | 66R, 9D | Francis H. Case (R) | |||||||
| 1952 | Lawrence E. Mayes | Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon (R) |
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| 1953 | 35R, 0D | 73R, 2D | ||||||||||||
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| 1955 | Joe Foss (R) | L. Roy Houck (R) | Phil Saunders (R) | Ed Elkins (R) | 29R, 6D | 57R, 18D | ||||||||
| 1956 | F. A. Allbee | |||||||||||||
| 1957 | Clara Halls (R) | 18R, 17D | 48R, 27D | 1D, 1R | ||||||||||
| 1958 | Oscar Brosz | |||||||||||||
| 1959 | Ralph E. Herseth (D) | John F. Lindley (D) | Selma Sandness (D) | Parnell J. Donahue (D) | Harriet Horning (D) | Al Hamre (R) | 20D, 15R | 43R, 32D | ||||||
| 1960 | Richard M. Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (R) |
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| 1961 | Archie M. Gubbrud (R) | Joseph H. Bottum (R) | Essie Wiedenman (R) | A. C. Miller (R) | Betty Lou Casey | 23R, 12D | 57R, 18D | 2R | ||||||
| 1962 | Joseph H. Bottum (R) | |||||||||||||
| 1963 | Nils A. Boe (R) | Frank L. Farrar (R) | Al Hamre (R) | 26R, 9D | 58R, 17D | George S. McGovern (D) | ||||||||
| 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert H. Humphrey (D) |
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| 1965 | Nils A. Boe (R) | Lem Overpeck (R) | Alma Larson (R) | L. Jorgenson (R) | 19R, 15D, 1I | 45R, 30D | ||||||||
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| 1967 | Lloyd Jorgenson | 29R, 6D | 64R, 11D | |||||||||||
| 1968 | Richard M. Nixon and Spiro T. Agnew (R) |
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| 1969 | Frank L. Farrar (R) | James Abdnor (R) | Gordon J. Mydland (R) | Alice Kundert (R) | Neal Strand (R) | 27R, 8D | 59R, 16D | |||||||
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| 1971 | Richard F. Kneip (D) | William Dougherty (D) | Ralph Ginn (R) | 24R, 11D | 45R, 30D | 2R, 1D | 2D | |||||||
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| 1973 | Lorna B. Herseth (D) | Kermit A. Sande (D) | David Volk (R) | George Kane (D) | 18D, 17R | 35R, 35D | 2D, 1R | James G. Abourezk (D) | 1D, 1R | |||||
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| 1975 | Harvey L. Wollman (D) | William J. Janklow (R) | 19D, 16R | 37R, 33D | 3D | 2R | ||||||||
| 1976 | Gerald R. Ford and Bob Dole (R) |
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| 1977 | 24R, 11D | 48R, 22D | 2D, 1R | |||||||||||
| 1978 | Harvey L. Wollman (D) | vacant | ||||||||||||
| 1979 | William J. Janklow (R) | Lowell C. Hansen II (R) | Alice Kundert (R) | Mark Meierhenry (R) | Vern Larson (R) | John J. Gerken (R) | Larry Pressler (R) | 1D, 1R | ||||||
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush (R) |
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| 1981 | 25R, 10D | 49R, 21D | 2R, 1D | James Abdnor (R) | ||||||||||
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| 1983 | F. Julian Cheney (R) | 26R, 9D | 52R, 18D | 2D, 1R | Tom Daschle (D) | |||||||||
| 1984 | David Volk (R) | |||||||||||||
| 1985 | John J. Gerken (R) | 25R, 10D | 57R, 13D | |||||||||||
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| 1987 | George S. Mickelson (R) | Walter Dale Miller (R) | Joyce Hazelton (R) | Roger Tellinghuisen (R) | Timothy Amdahl (R) | 24R, 11D | 48R, 22D | 3D | Tom Daschle (D) | Tim Johnson (D) | ||||
| 1988 | George H.W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) |
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| 1989 | 20R, 15D | 46R, 24D | 2D, 1R | |||||||||||
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| 1991 | Mark Barnett (R) | G. Homer Harding (R) | Curt Johnson (D) | 18R, 17D | 45R, 25D | |||||||||
| 1992 | George H.W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) |
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| 1993 | Walter Dale Miller (R) | Steve T. Kirby (R) | 20D, 15R | 41R, 29D | ||||||||||
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| 1995 | William J. Janklow (R) | Carole Hillard (R) | Dick Butler (D) | 19R, 16D | 45R, 24D, 1I | |||||||||
| 1996 | Bob Dole and Jack Kemp (R) |
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| 1997 | 22R, 13D | 47R, 23D | Tim Johnson (D) | John Thune (R) | ||||||||||
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| 1999 | 52R, 18D | |||||||||||||
| 2000 | George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (R) |
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| 2001 | 24R, 11D | 50R, 20D | ||||||||||||
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| 2003 | Mike Rounds (R) | Dennis Daugaard (R) | Chris Nelson (R) | Larry Long (R) | Rich Sattgast (R) | Vern Larson (R) | Bryce Healy (D) | 26R, 9D | 49R, 21D | 2R, 1D | William J. Janklow (R) | |||
| 2004 | Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D) | |||||||||||||
| 2005 | 25R, 10D | 51R, 19D | 3R | John Thune (R) | ||||||||||
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| 2007 | Jarrod Johnson (R) | 20R, 15D | 50R, 20D | 2R, 1D | ||||||||||
| 2008 | John McCain and Sarah Palin (R) |
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| 2009 | 21R, 14D | 46R, 24D | ||||||||||||
| 2010 | Marty Jackley (R) | |||||||||||||
| 2011 | Dennis Daugaard (R) | Matt Michels (R) | Jason Gant (R) | Steve Barnett (R) | Rich Sattgast (R) | 30R, 5D | 50R, 19D, 1I | 3R | Kristi Noem (R) | |||||
| 2012 | Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan (R) |
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| 2013 | Vern Larson (R) | 28R, 7D | 53R, 17D | |||||||||||
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| 2015 | Shantel Krebs (R) | Ryan Brunner (R) | 27R, 8D | 58R, 12D | Mike Rounds (R) | |||||||||
| 2016 | Donald Trump and Mike Pence (R) |
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| 2017 | 29R, 6D | 60R, 10D | ||||||||||||
| Year | Governor | Lt. Governor | Sec. of State | Atty. Gen. | Auditor | Treasurer | Comm. of Lands | State Senate | State House | Pub. Util. Comm. | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | Electoral College votes |
| Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | ||||||||||||
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