2024 United States presidential election in South Dakota Reporting as of November 10, 2024, 1:13 PM CDT
Trump
40–50%
50–60%
60–70%
70–80%
80–90%
90–100%
Harris
50–60%
60–70%
70–80%
80–90%
The 2024 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. South Dakota voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of South Dakota has three electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state neither gained nor lost a seat.[ 1]
Like its northern twin , South Dakota is a sparsely-populated state in the Great Plains , and a Republican stronghold at both the state and federal levels. It hasn't voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since Lyndon B. Johnson carried it in 1964 , against the backdrop of his nationwide landslide victory ; not even in 1972 , when favorite son George McGovern lost his state by 8.6% as he suffered a 49-state defeat to Richard Nixon . The last presidential Democrat to come within 5% of carrying South Dakota was Bill Clinton (who lost the state by just over 3 points in both of his victories) in 1996 , and the last to come within 10% was Midwesterner Barack Obama (who lost the state by 8.4%) in 2008 .
Republican Donald Trump has comfortably continued South Dakota's Republican streak, carrying the state by 29.7% in 2016 and again by 26.1% four years later . Running under the Republican banner a third consecutive time, Trump once again won the state with a comfortable margin of 29.2%.
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