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South Dakota 2000 vs 2004: county swing

25 of 66 counties moved toward the Republican ticket; 4 changed hands.

Aurora County: swing EvenBennett County: swing D+25.5Buffalo County: swing D+16.8Codington County: swing R+0.6Davison County: swing R+5.7Douglas County: swing R+4.3Haakon County: swing D+5.1Hanson County: swing D+4.8McCook County: swing R+0.5Mellette County: swing D+16.6Pennington County: swing D+2.1Sanborn County: swing D+7.0Turner County: swing R+2.2Ziebach County: swing D+27.0Beadle County: swing R+2.8Brookings County: swing R+1.4Butte County: swing D+1.5Charles Mix County: swing D+16.9Custer County: swing D+4.8Deuel County: swing R+4.1Dewey County: swing D+19.7Edmunds County: swing R+0.7Grant County: swing D+1.3Hand County: swing D+4.8Harding County: swing D+5.2Hughes County: swing D+1.9Hyde County: swing D+3.5Jones County: swing R+4.0Lake County: swing R+6.4Lyman County: swing D+20.2Meade County: swing D+2.2Miner County: swing D+4.4Moody County: swing R+3.7Oglala Lakota County: swing R+0.4Spink County: swing D+0.1Stanley County: swing R+0.9Todd County: swing D+12.5Union County: swing D+1.7Brule County: swing D+1.7Clark County: swing R+1.3Day County: swing D+8.2Faulk County: swing D+0.3Hamlin County: swing R+1.2Hutchinson County: swing R+1.6Kingsbury County: swing R+0.7Marshall County: swing D+1.6Potter County: swing D+8.6Sully County: swing R+6.0Walworth County: swing D+2.9Jackson County: swing D+18.3Lawrence County: swing D+6.3Lincoln County: swing R+6.4McPherson County: swing D+3.6Minnehaha County: swing R+4.9Perkins County: swing D+8.0Roberts County: swing D+15.8Bon Homme County: swing D+1.0Brown County: swing R+1.7Campbell County: swing D+15.7Clay County: swing D+4.7Corson County: swing D+21.0Fall River County: swing D+2.4Gregory County: swing R+0.2Tripp County: swing D+1.4Yankton County: swing R+1.9Jerauld County: swing R+6.6
Red: toward the Republican ticket. Blue: toward the Democratic ticket.
County20002004SwingVotes 2000Votes 2004
Jerauld County R+13.9 R+20.5 R+6.6 1,122 1,236
Lake County R+7.7 R+14.1 R+6.4 5,154 6,007
Lincoln County R+25.6 R+32.0 R+6.4 10,556 17,066
Sully County R+48.7 R+54.7 R+6.0 871 917
Davison County R+20.0 R+25.7 R+5.7 7,528 8,952
Minnehaha County R+10.4 R+15.3 R+4.9 61,369 77,632
Douglas County R+55.5 R+59.8 R+4.3 1,709 2,012
Deuel County R+14.4 R+18.5 R+4.1 2,224 2,412
Jones County R+56.1 R+60.1 R+4.0 664 717
Moody County R+1.6 R+5.3 R+3.7 2,735 3,451
Beadle County R+14.6 R+17.4 R+2.8 7,739 8,480
Turner County R+27.5 R+29.7 R+2.2 4,004 4,834
Yankton County R+15.0 R+16.9 R+1.9 8,740 10,431
Brown County R+11.4 R+13.1 R+1.7 16,556 18,599
Hutchinson County R+39.9 R+41.5 R+1.6 3,625 4,147
Brookings County R+15.2 R+16.6 R+1.4 10,984 13,375
Clark County R+22.8 R+24.1 R+1.3 2,108 2,327
Hamlin County R+29.7 R+30.9 R+1.2 2,723 3,011
Stanley County R+40.1 R+41.0 R+0.9 1,381 1,623
Edmunds County R+29.3 R+30.0 R+0.7 1,986 2,234
Kingsbury County R+20.6 R+21.3 R+0.7 2,727 3,014
Codington County R+22.7 R+23.3 R+0.6 11,138 12,751
McCook County R+24.5 R+25.0 R+0.5 2,631 3,271
Oglala Lakota County D+72.5 D+72.1 R+0.4 1,953 4,214
Gregory County R+34.1 R+34.3 R+0.2 2,257 2,546
Aurora County R+23.6 R+23.6 Even 1,413 1,649
Spink County R+20.8 R+20.7 D+0.1 3,284 3,774
Faulk County R+38.8 R+38.5 D+0.3 1,329 1,369
Bon Homme County R+23.6 R+22.6 D+1.0 3,139 3,408
Grant County R+19.9 R+18.6 D+1.3 3,830 4,090
Tripp County R+40.1 R+38.7 D+1.4 2,765 3,245
Butte County R+52.0 R+50.5 D+1.5 3,689 4,271
Marshall County R+7.6 R+6.0 D+1.6 2,079 2,364
Brule County R+20.8 R+19.1 D+1.7 2,167 2,629
Union County R+15.7 R+14.0 D+1.7 5,772 7,048
Hughes County R+39.5 R+37.6 D+1.9 7,534 8,835
Pennington County R+37.2 R+35.1 D+2.1 36,557 44,968
Meade County R+49.2 R+47.0 D+2.2 9,366 11,504
Fall River County R+30.7 R+28.3 D+2.4 3,429 3,845
Walworth County R+40.7 R+37.8 D+2.9 2,553 2,880
Hyde County R+44.8 R+41.3 D+3.5 835 900
McPherson County R+54.9 R+51.3 D+3.6 1,417 1,579
Miner County R+15.9 R+11.5 D+4.4 1,266 1,470
Clay County D+5.4 D+10.1 D+4.7 5,105 6,136
Custer County R+43.1 R+38.3 D+4.8 3,573 4,304
Hand County R+42.1 R+37.3 D+4.8 2,031 2,187
Hanson County R+34.2 R+29.4 D+4.8 1,421 2,150
Haakon County R+68.6 R+63.5 D+5.1 1,129 1,240
Harding County R+80.1 R+74.9 D+5.2 731 815
Lawrence County R+37.6 R+31.3 D+6.3 9,406 11,619
Sanborn County R+23.6 R+16.6 D+7.0 1,268 1,426
Perkins County R+58.2 R+50.2 D+8.0 1,614 1,813
Day County flipped R+4.1 D+4.1 D+8.2 3,197 3,540
Potter County R+50.6 R+42.0 D+8.6 1,494 1,618
Todd County D+34.5 D+47.0 D+12.5 1,494 3,524
Campbell County R+64.6 R+48.9 D+15.7 917 959
Roberts County flipped R+13.2 D+2.6 D+15.8 4,074 4,982
Mellette County R+37.2 R+20.6 D+16.6 733 931
Buffalo County D+28.4 D+45.2 D+16.8 408 841
Charles Mix County R+25.3 R+8.4 D+16.9 3,579 4,798
Jackson County R+35.4 R+17.1 D+18.3 1,040 1,271
Dewey County D+7.0 D+26.7 D+19.7 1,681 2,564
Lyman County R+28.3 R+8.1 D+20.2 1,386 1,940
Corson County flipped R+6.4 D+14.6 D+21.0 1,243 1,724
Bennett County R+30.0 R+4.5 D+25.5 1,116 1,630
Ziebach County flipped R+9.7 D+17.3 D+27.0 721 1,116

Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data