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South Dakota 2008 vs 2024: county swing

66 of 66 counties moved toward the Republican ticket; 11 changed hands.

Aurora County: swing R+44.6Bennett County: swing R+21.5Buffalo County: swing R+21.5Codington County: swing R+34.3Davison County: swing R+23.6Douglas County: swing R+22.3Haakon County: swing R+14.0Hanson County: swing R+39.9McCook County: swing R+34.6Mellette County: swing R+11.4Pennington County: swing R+5.1Sanborn County: swing R+41.0Turner County: swing R+31.2Ziebach County: swing R+30.2Beadle County: swing R+32.7Brookings County: swing R+23.1Butte County: swing R+24.7Charles Mix County: swing R+35.2Custer County: swing R+13.5Deuel County: swing R+50.1Dewey County: swing R+20.5Edmunds County: swing R+41.6Grant County: swing R+41.0Hand County: swing R+30.6Harding County: swing R+25.2Hughes County: swing R+3.2Hyde County: swing R+13.6Jones County: swing R+24.7Lake County: swing R+31.8Lyman County: swing R+28.0Meade County: swing R+18.1Miner County: swing R+49.3Moody County: swing R+36.6Oglala Lakota County: swing R+9.1Spink County: swing R+35.6Stanley County: swing R+13.9Todd County: swing R+8.0Union County: swing R+26.7Brule County: swing R+24.0Clark County: swing R+40.2Day County: swing R+42.9Faulk County: swing R+38.6Hamlin County: swing R+37.9Hutchinson County: swing R+28.6Kingsbury County: swing R+38.1Marshall County: swing R+40.6Potter County: swing R+33.4Sully County: swing R+18.6Walworth County: swing R+30.7Jackson County: swing R+14.3Lawrence County: swing R+15.8Lincoln County: swing R+11.1McPherson County: swing R+34.4Minnehaha County: swing R+13.4Perkins County: swing R+33.6Roberts County: swing R+42.9Bon Homme County: swing R+40.4Brown County: swing R+32.5Campbell County: swing R+28.8Clay County: swing R+18.0Corson County: swing R+33.6Fall River County: swing R+22.4Gregory County: swing R+30.8Tripp County: swing R+29.6Yankton County: swing R+23.5Jerauld County: swing R+42.9
Red: toward the Republican ticket. Blue: toward the Democratic ticket.
County20082024SwingVotes 2008Votes 2024
Deuel County R+1.6 R+51.7 R+50.1 2,178 2,298
Miner County flipped D+2.3 R+47.0 R+49.3 1,198 1,167
Aurora County R+9.5 R+54.1 R+44.6 1,468 1,393
Day County flipped D+13.0 R+29.9 R+42.9 3,178 2,932
Jerauld County R+0.4 R+43.3 R+42.9 1,092 999
Roberts County flipped D+19.9 R+23.0 R+42.9 4,484 4,149
Edmunds County R+19.2 R+60.8 R+41.6 2,053 2,031
Grant County R+4.4 R+45.4 R+41.0 3,774 3,630
Sanborn County R+14.3 R+55.3 R+41.0 1,181 1,212
Marshall County flipped D+16.6 R+24.0 R+40.6 2,177 2,109
Bon Homme County R+11.0 R+51.4 R+40.4 3,116 2,992
Clark County R+12.3 R+52.5 R+40.2 1,920 1,842
Hanson County R+19.3 R+59.2 R+39.9 2,414 2,046
Faulk County R+26.6 R+65.2 R+38.6 1,174 1,130
Kingsbury County R+5.8 R+43.9 R+38.1 2,739 2,801
Hamlin County R+22.6 R+60.5 R+37.9 2,737 3,226
Moody County flipped D+4.8 R+31.8 R+36.6 3,203 3,189
Spink County R+3.4 R+39.0 R+35.6 3,239 3,139
Charles Mix County R+7.7 R+42.9 R+35.2 3,937 3,615
McCook County R+14.7 R+49.3 R+34.6 2,905 3,031
McPherson County R+34.8 R+69.2 R+34.4 1,364 1,299
Codington County R+6.5 R+40.8 R+34.3 12,076 13,510
Corson County flipped D+21.7 R+11.9 R+33.6 1,390 1,143
Perkins County R+36.4 R+70.0 R+33.6 1,656 1,591
Potter County R+31.7 R+65.1 R+33.4 1,434 1,298
Beadle County R+7.3 R+40.0 R+32.7 7,630 7,010
Brown County flipped D+5.6 R+26.9 R+32.5 17,253 17,043
Lake County flipped D+0.6 R+31.2 R+31.8 6,076 5,906
Turner County R+20.1 R+51.3 R+31.2 4,266 4,538
Gregory County R+29.4 R+60.2 R+30.8 2,218 2,267
Walworth County R+28.5 R+59.2 R+30.7 2,620 2,466
Hand County R+26.7 R+57.3 R+30.6 1,981 1,764
Ziebach County flipped D+27.4 R+2.8 R+30.2 882 781
Tripp County R+33.7 R+63.3 R+29.6 2,809 2,654
Campbell County R+41.2 R+70.0 R+28.8 844 836
Hutchinson County R+29.3 R+57.9 R+28.6 3,561 3,736
Lyman County R+11.4 R+39.4 R+28.0 1,623 1,447
Union County R+14.0 R+40.7 R+26.7 7,620 8,876
Harding County R+60.9 R+86.1 R+25.2 722 820
Butte County R+36.0 R+60.7 R+24.7 4,205 5,082
Jones County R+51.1 R+75.8 R+24.7 618 550
Brule County R+18.4 R+42.4 R+24.0 2,406 2,423
Davison County R+14.1 R+37.7 R+23.6 8,365 9,177
Yankton County R+2.1 R+25.6 R+23.5 9,967 10,832
Brookings County flipped D+5.7 R+17.4 R+23.1 13,789 14,939
Fall River County R+26.9 R+49.3 R+22.4 3,755 4,274
Douglas County R+50.1 R+72.4 R+22.3 1,735 1,658
Bennett County R+4.8 R+26.3 R+21.5 1,189 1,088
Buffalo County D+48.7 D+27.2 R+21.5 612 466
Dewey County D+33.3 D+12.8 R+20.5 2,005 1,871
Sully County R+42.3 R+60.9 R+18.6 823 901
Meade County R+32.8 R+50.9 R+18.1 11,465 14,672
Clay County D+24.5 D+6.5 R+18.0 6,159 5,657
Lawrence County R+15.6 R+31.4 R+15.8 11,876 15,409
Jackson County R+20.8 R+35.1 R+14.3 1,118 1,129
Haakon County R+65.9 R+79.9 R+14.0 1,141 1,125
Stanley County R+32.9 R+46.8 R+13.9 1,540 1,735
Hyde County R+41.4 R+55.0 R+13.6 776 695
Custer County R+32.3 R+45.8 R+13.5 4,450 6,001
Minnehaha County flipped D+0.7 R+12.7 R+13.4 79,798 93,986
Mellette County R+8.7 R+20.1 R+11.4 829 740
Lincoln County R+15.4 R+26.5 R+11.1 20,601 36,393
Oglala Lakota County D+79.6 D+70.5 R+9.1 3,314 3,062
Todd County D+58.4 D+50.4 R+8.0 2,807 2,126
Pennington County R+21.4 R+26.5 R+5.1 45,787 56,580
Hughes County R+27.0 R+30.2 R+3.2 8,386 8,435

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