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South Dakota 2012 vs 2020: county swing

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

Aurora County: swing R+34.6Bennett County: swing R+12.9Buffalo County: swing R+16.9Codington County: swing R+20.6Davison County: swing R+13.6Douglas County: swing R+14.0Haakon County: swing R+7.5Hanson County: swing R+16.0McCook County: swing R+16.1Mellette County: swing R+18.9Pennington County: swing D+4.3Sanborn County: swing R+27.9Turner County: swing R+16.3Ziebach County: swing R+7.9Beadle County: swing R+19.6Brookings County: swing R+9.8Butte County: swing R+8.9Charles Mix County: swing R+16.6Custer County: swing R+4.2Deuel County: swing R+35.6Dewey County: swing R+11.4Edmunds County: swing R+23.3Grant County: swing R+26.7Hand County: swing R+21.7Harding County: swing R+10.8Hughes County: swing D+0.4Hyde County: swing R+13.6Jones County: swing R+5.3Lake County: swing R+16.4Lyman County: swing R+11.4Meade County: swing R+5.4Miner County: swing R+27.3Moody County: swing R+20.6Oglala Lakota County: swing R+8.3Spink County: swing R+22.7Stanley County: swing R+6.5Todd County: swing R+2.9Union County: swing R+11.1Brule County: swing R+14.9Clark County: swing R+31.2Day County: swing R+33.8Faulk County: swing R+26.3Hamlin County: swing R+24.3Hutchinson County: swing R+13.3Kingsbury County: swing R+25.3Marshall County: swing R+28.4Potter County: swing R+16.1Sully County: swing R+6.0Walworth County: swing R+11.3Jackson County: swing R+12.7Lawrence County: swing R+3.7Lincoln County: swing D+2.0McPherson County: swing R+11.0Minnehaha County: swing R+2.1Perkins County: swing R+13.9Roberts County: swing R+23.3Bon Homme County: swing R+29.0Brown County: swing R+16.3Campbell County: swing R+13.3Clay County: swing R+4.5Corson County: swing R+13.0Fall River County: swing R+13.3Gregory County: swing R+15.9Tripp County: swing R+18.4Yankton County: swing R+10.9Jerauld County: swing R+36.3
Red: toward the Republican ticket. Blue: toward the Democratic ticket.
County20122020SwingVotes 2012Votes 2020
Jerauld County R+8.6 R+44.9 R+36.3 1,006 1,006
Deuel County R+10.8 R+46.4 R+35.6 2,171 2,350
Aurora County R+17.7 R+52.3 R+34.6 1,400 1,405
Day County flipped D+6.2 R+27.6 R+33.8 2,873 2,964
Clark County R+19.4 R+50.6 R+31.2 1,821 1,850
Bon Homme County R+21.5 R+50.5 R+29.0 3,074 3,001
Marshall County flipped D+8.7 R+19.7 R+28.4 1,987 2,178
Sanborn County R+26.8 R+54.7 R+27.9 1,115 1,185
Miner County R+13.8 R+41.1 R+27.3 1,140 1,138
Grant County R+15.0 R+41.7 R+26.7 3,606 3,745
Faulk County R+38.5 R+64.8 R+26.3 1,127 1,182
Kingsbury County R+13.7 R+39.0 R+25.3 2,608 2,779
Hamlin County R+31.6 R+55.9 R+24.3 2,793 3,083
Edmunds County R+33.2 R+56.5 R+23.3 1,936 1,985
Roberts County flipped D+9.9 R+13.4 R+23.3 4,256 4,307
Spink County R+12.2 R+34.9 R+22.7 3,041 3,163
Hand County R+36.1 R+57.8 R+21.7 1,848 1,836
Codington County R+18.3 R+38.9 R+20.6 11,524 13,161
Moody County R+3.5 R+24.1 R+20.6 3,033 3,206
Beadle County R+18.5 R+38.1 R+19.6 7,263 7,081
Mellette County R+0.7 R+19.6 R+18.9 769 769
Tripp County R+43.4 R+61.8 R+18.4 2,691 2,696
Buffalo County D+47.7 D+30.8 R+16.9 641 549
Charles Mix County R+19.8 R+36.4 R+16.6 3,764 3,783
Lake County R+11.1 R+27.5 R+16.4 6,285 5,873
Brown County R+6.7 R+23.0 R+16.3 16,068 17,547
Turner County R+31.0 R+47.3 R+16.3 4,210 4,548
McCook County R+28.7 R+44.8 R+16.1 2,613 2,900
Potter County R+50.0 R+66.1 R+16.1 1,381 1,380
Hanson County R+35.8 R+51.8 R+16.0 2,416 2,388
Gregory County R+42.3 R+58.2 R+15.9 2,151 2,258
Brule County R+28.4 R+43.3 R+14.9 2,379 2,490
Douglas County R+59.3 R+73.3 R+14.0 1,690 1,707
Perkins County R+55.7 R+69.6 R+13.9 1,590 1,669
Davison County R+21.5 R+35.1 R+13.6 7,971 8,454
Hyde County R+46.6 R+60.2 R+13.6 733 710
Campbell County R+58.9 R+72.2 R+13.3 787 873
Fall River County R+31.8 R+45.1 R+13.3 3,516 4,042
Hutchinson County R+44.7 R+58.0 R+13.3 3,425 3,767
Corson County flipped D+11.1 R+1.9 R+13.0 1,200 1,283
Bennett County R+6.4 R+19.3 R+12.9 1,203 1,183
Jackson County R+21.3 R+34.0 R+12.7 1,106 1,115
Dewey County D+28.7 D+17.3 R+11.4 1,895 1,966
Lyman County R+20.9 R+32.3 R+11.4 1,569 1,597
Walworth County R+43.0 R+54.3 R+11.3 2,462 2,580
Union County R+25.2 R+36.3 R+11.1 7,596 8,855
McPherson County R+53.4 R+64.4 R+11.0 1,215 1,324
Yankton County R+12.7 R+23.6 R+10.9 9,974 10,900
Harding County R+75.2 R+86.0 R+10.8 739 813
Brookings County R+3.2 R+13.0 R+9.8 12,400 14,567
Butte County R+49.2 R+58.1 R+8.9 4,208 4,802
Oglala Lakota County D+87.4 D+79.1 R+8.3 3,145 3,200
Ziebach County D+16.4 D+8.5 R+7.9 761 906
Haakon County R+73.5 R+81.0 R+7.5 1,092 1,137
Stanley County R+40.8 R+47.3 R+6.5 1,540 1,652
Sully County R+52.2 R+58.2 R+6.0 818 930
Meade County R+42.8 R+48.2 R+5.4 10,817 13,670
Jones County R+62.8 R+68.1 R+5.3 609 599
Clay County D+15.5 D+11.0 R+4.5 5,234 5,698
Custer County R+38.2 R+42.4 R+4.2 4,520 5,494
Lawrence County R+26.8 R+30.5 R+3.7 11,359 13,828
Todd County D+59.2 D+56.3 R+2.9 2,497 2,539
Minnehaha County R+7.4 R+9.5 R+2.1 76,583 92,326
Hughes County R+29.8 R+29.4 D+0.4 8,155 8,723
Lincoln County R+25.6 R+23.6 D+2.0 21,952 32,396
Pennington County R+29.5 R+25.2 D+4.3 44,464 57,518

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