2026 general election · South Dakota
South Dakota seats scoreboard
Unofficial
Unofficial results. These are the totals on the South Dakota Secretary of State’s election results site, saved 2026-11-13 05:48 UTC, unofficial and not certified. Counts can change in the canvass. “Leads” means ahead in the unofficial count, not a call.
As of , unofficial, per the Secretary of State’s election results site (electionresults.sd.gov): 81 South Dakota contests are loaded. In the unofficial count, Statewide (8 contests): Republicans lead 8, Democrats lead 0; U.S. House (1 contest): Republicans lead 1, Democrats lead 0; State Senate (35 contests): Republicans lead 33, Democrats lead 2; State House (37 contests): Republicans lead 29, Democrats lead 3. A lead is not a call.
Pick an office on the left and a filter on top. Every contest is one row, set against the same seat in 2022 and 2024. Everyone sees the statewide contests and the five closest seats in each chamber; Pro opens every district.
Unofficial results, saved 2026-11-13 05:48 UTC. Nothing is called.
- The 2026 numbers are unofficial and not certified. They are the Secretary of State’s results site, saved 2026-11-13 05:48 UTC. The feed also sets a winner flag; we ignore it and call nothing.
- Write-in votes are not in the feed, so totals are votes for the candidates listed. County turnout is not in the feed. County and local contests (50 office titles, such as county commissioner, school board and city questions) and the four constitutional amendments are not on this page.
- The 2022 and 2024 figures are from the Secretary of State’s official returns booklets, not the election night archive feed, which differs from the booklet in 61 of 82 contests in 2024. Two seats are read from the sworn State Board of Canvassers certificate because the booklet block was wrong or unreadable (2024 State Senate 17, 2022 State Senate 7). State House 15 (Minnehaha) was recounted in both years and uses the recount figures.
- The U.S. Senate race in 2026 has a Republican and an independent candidate and no Democrat, so it is compared with 2022 for the same office, a different seat, and its margin cell reads “No Democratic candidate”.
- Unofficial results, saved 2026-11-13 05:48 UTC, not certified. “Leads” means ahead in the unofficial count, not a call. Write-in votes are not in the feed.
- Each State House district elects two representatives (districts 26 and 28 elect one in each of two sub-districts, A and B). A two-seat district has no single margin: the Leads column shows how its two leading candidates divide (for example “1 R, 1 D”), and a tie for the second seat reads “Tied for last seat”.
- A county that lies in more than one district contributes only the part inside the district to that district’s total. Some State Senate and State House seats are shown on the Secretary of State’s site as “Possible Recount” under its own rule; that is the site’s label, and this page states no recount.
The state page lists results from approved rows drawn from state results feeds and Wikipedia; those are not the counts on this desk, which shows the South Dakota Secretary of State’s unofficial results site as saved 2026-11-13 05:48 UTC, not certified. See the state page.
17 of 81 contests.
| Seat | Leads | Margin | 2022 | 2024 | Shift | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | Larry Rhoden and Tony Venhuizen (R) | R+27.0 | R+26.8 | Not listed | Toward R 0.2 pts | Same leader Not called |
| Secretary of State | Heather Baxter (R) | R+22.3 | R+27.8 | Not listed | Toward D 5.5 pts | Same leader Not called |
| Attorney General | Lance Russell (R) | Unopposed | Unopposed | Not listed | n/a | Same leader Not called |
| State Auditor | Catherine Barranco (R) | R+25.1 | R+30.8 | Not listed | Toward D 5.7 pts | Same leader Not called |
| State Treasurer | Melissa Hull (R) | R+24.9 | R+34.0 | Not listed | Toward D 9.2 pts | Same leader Not called |
| Commissioner of School and Public Lands | Brock Greenfield (R) | R+23.6 | R+33.5 | Not listed | Toward D 9.8 pts | Same leader Not called |
| Public Utilities Commissioner | Don Haggar (R) | R+20.5 | R+37.4 | R+40.9 | Toward D 20.4 pts | Same leader Not called |
| U.S. Senate | Mike Rounds (R) | No Democratic candidate | R+43.5 | Not listed | n/a | Same leader Not called |
| U.S. House (at large) | Marty Jackley (R) | R+28.0 | No Democratic candidate | R+44.1 | Toward D 16.1 pts | Same leader Not called |
| State Senate 11 | Chris Karr (R) The site lists this contest as “Possible Recount” | R+0.4 | R+10.5 | R+17.8 | Toward D 17.3 pts | Same leader Not called |
| State Senate 12 | Kari Shanard-Koenders (R) The site lists this contest as “Possible Recount” | R+1.7 | R+7.8 | R+11.4 | Toward D 9.7 pts | Same leader Not called |
| State Senate 27 | Anthony Kathol (R) | R+4.4 | D+2.9 | D+3.9 | Toward R 8.3 pts | Leads change Not called |
| State Senate 32 | Helene Duhamel (R) | R+4.8 | R+12.3 | No Democratic candidate | Toward D 7.6 pts | Same leader Not called |
| State Senate 34 | Taffy Howard (R) | R+4.6 | Unopposed | R+20.4 | Toward D 15.8 pts | Same leader Not called |
| State House 26A | Eric E. Emery (D) | D+29.0 | D+33.8 | D+20.9 | Toward D 8.0 pts | Same leader Not called |
| State House 26B | Angi Hanzlik (R) | R+36.6 | Unopposed | No Democratic candidate | n/a | Same leader Not called |
| State House 28A | Jana Hunt (R) | R+17.1 | D+1.2 | R+15.1 | Toward R 2.0 pts | Same leader Not called |
Sources and method
- 2026: the Secretary of State’s election results site, read Fri, 13 Nov 2026 05:48:00 GMT. Unofficial, saved 2026-11-13 05:48 UTC (the South Dakota Secretary of State results site prints no update time), not certified. Statewide contests (checksum de86794a60dd) U.S. House (checksum de86794a60dd) State Senate (checksum 17b1c1ee968f) State House (checksum 17b1c1ee968f)
- 2022 and 2024: the Secretary of State’s official returns booklets for 2022 and 2024 (SDCL 12-20-48), checked against the State Board of Canvassers certificates, summed over each district’s counties. 2022 (checksum 3675c607c243) 2024 (checksum 4e424a7b5397)
- District maps: There are no district outlines for South Dakota on this site yet, so the seats board has no district map.
- Which seats appear: every seat on the 2026 ballot that the Secretary of State’s site lists: the at-large U.S. House seat, all 35 State Senate seats and all 37 State House entries (70 representatives), including unopposed ones, plus governor, the other statewide offices and the U.S. Senate seat. A two-seat State House district shows how its two leading candidates divide, not a margin; a seat with no more candidates than seats reads Unopposed. Vote totals leave out write-in votes, which are not in the feed. The four constitutional amendments, judicial retention and local contests are not shown.
- Margin: Republican votes minus Democratic votes, as points of all votes in the seat. A seat with one candidate shows “Unopposed”. Shift: this year’s margin minus the margin in the year you compare with. Leads change: the leading party in the unofficial count differs from the latest earlier contest for the same seat (2024 if it was on the ballot, otherwise 2022). It describes the count so far; nothing is called.
- District lines: South Dakota has one at-large U.S. House seat, 35 legislative districts with one senator each, and two representatives from each district, except districts 26 and 28, which elect one representative in each of two sub-districts (A and B). The 35 districts have the same county makeup in 2022, 2024 and 2026 (checked against the saved files), and we found no sign of a change for 2026, so a district compares with the same district in 2022 and 2024. The board numbers the 37 State House entries 1 to 37 in order (26A is 26, 26B is 27, 27 is 28, 28A is 29, and so on); the label keeps the real district name.