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South Dakota 2016 vs 2020: county swing

26 of 66 counties moved toward the Republican ticket; 1 changed hands.

Aurora County: swing R+7.3Bennett County: swing D+2.8Buffalo County: swing D+5.3Codington County: swing D+0.4Davison County: swing D+0.2Douglas County: swing R+3.2Haakon County: swing D+1.3Hanson County: swing D+1.7McCook County: swing D+0.4Mellette County: swing D+4.5Pennington County: swing D+7.7Sanborn County: swing R+3.3Turner County: swing D+0.3Ziebach County: swing D+10.5Beadle County: swing R+0.5Brookings County: swing D+1.7Butte County: swing D+3.1Charles Mix County: swing D+5.8Custer County: swing D+3.7Deuel County: swing R+8.1Dewey County: swing D+7.6Edmunds County: swing R+1.6Grant County: swing R+2.1Hand County: swing D+0.3Harding County: swing R+0.6Hughes County: swing D+3.9Hyde County: swing D+0.4Jones County: swing D+0.1Lake County: swing R+2.1Lyman County: swing D+10.5Meade County: swing D+5.3Miner County: swing R+1.1Moody County: swing R+0.7Oglala Lakota County: swing D+1.0Spink County: swing R+3.2Stanley County: swing D+5.0Todd County: swing D+8.4Union County: swing D+2.5Brule County: swing D+0.1Clark County: swing R+5.9Day County: swing R+3.9Faulk County: swing R+6.3Hamlin County: swing R+1.7Hutchinson County: swing R+3.8Kingsbury County: swing R+0.7Marshall County: swing R+4.2Potter County: swing R+2.1Sully County: swing D+4.8Walworth County: swing D+3.8Jackson County: swing D+2.4Lawrence County: swing D+3.8Lincoln County: swing D+5.8McPherson County: swing R+2.8Minnehaha County: swing D+5.1Perkins County: swing D+1.7Roberts County: swing D+2.1Bon Homme County: swing R+3.4Brown County: swing D+2.9Campbell County: swing R+0.1Clay County: swing D+1.2Corson County: swing D+2.6Fall River County: swing D+2.4Gregory County: swing R+0.4Tripp County: swing R+0.7Yankton County: swing D+0.9Jerauld County: swing R+5.2
Red: toward the Republican ticket. Blue: toward the Democratic ticket.
County20162020SwingVotes 2016Votes 2020
Deuel County R+38.3 R+46.4 R+8.1 2,080 2,350
Aurora County R+45.0 R+52.3 R+7.3 1,407 1,405
Faulk County R+58.5 R+64.8 R+6.3 1,118 1,182
Clark County R+44.7 R+50.6 R+5.9 1,657 1,850
Jerauld County R+39.7 R+44.9 R+5.2 967 1,006
Marshall County R+15.5 R+19.7 R+4.2 1,947 2,178
Day County R+23.7 R+27.6 R+3.9 2,747 2,964
Hutchinson County R+54.2 R+58.0 R+3.8 3,365 3,767
Bon Homme County R+47.1 R+50.5 R+3.4 2,974 3,001
Sanborn County R+51.4 R+54.7 R+3.3 1,123 1,185
Douglas County R+70.1 R+73.3 R+3.2 1,605 1,707
Spink County R+31.7 R+34.9 R+3.2 2,951 3,163
McPherson County R+61.6 R+64.4 R+2.8 1,137 1,324
Grant County R+39.6 R+41.7 R+2.1 3,564 3,745
Lake County R+25.4 R+27.5 R+2.1 6,786 5,873
Potter County R+64.0 R+66.1 R+2.1 1,337 1,380
Hamlin County R+54.2 R+55.9 R+1.7 2,762 3,083
Edmunds County R+54.9 R+56.5 R+1.6 1,918 1,985
Miner County R+40.0 R+41.1 R+1.1 1,064 1,138
Kingsbury County R+38.3 R+39.0 R+0.7 2,551 2,779
Moody County R+23.4 R+24.1 R+0.7 2,933 3,206
Tripp County R+61.1 R+61.8 R+0.7 2,630 2,696
Harding County R+85.4 R+86.0 R+0.6 770 813
Beadle County R+37.6 R+38.1 R+0.5 6,772 7,081
Gregory County R+57.8 R+58.2 R+0.4 2,091 2,258
Campbell County R+72.1 R+72.2 R+0.1 831 873
Brule County R+43.4 R+43.3 D+0.1 2,288 2,490
Jones County R+68.2 R+68.1 D+0.1 558 599
Davison County R+35.3 R+35.1 D+0.2 7,952 8,454
Hand County R+58.1 R+57.8 D+0.3 1,818 1,836
Turner County R+47.6 R+47.3 D+0.3 4,150 4,548
Codington County R+39.3 R+38.9 D+0.4 11,669 13,161
Hyde County R+60.6 R+60.2 D+0.4 690 710
McCook County R+45.2 R+44.8 D+0.4 2,587 2,900
Yankton County R+24.5 R+23.6 D+0.9 9,623 10,900
Oglala Lakota County D+78.1 D+79.1 D+1.0 2,905 3,200
Clay County D+9.8 D+11.0 D+1.2 5,069 5,698
Haakon County R+82.3 R+81.0 D+1.3 1,044 1,137
Brookings County R+14.7 R+13.0 D+1.7 12,680 14,567
Hanson County R+53.5 R+51.8 D+1.7 2,006 2,388
Perkins County R+71.3 R+69.6 D+1.7 1,606 1,669
Roberts County R+15.5 R+13.4 D+2.1 3,889 4,307
Fall River County R+47.5 R+45.1 D+2.4 3,563 4,042
Jackson County R+36.4 R+34.0 D+2.4 1,095 1,115
Union County R+38.8 R+36.3 D+2.5 7,897 8,855
Corson County R+4.5 R+1.9 D+2.6 1,175 1,283
Bennett County R+22.1 R+19.3 D+2.8 1,149 1,183
Brown County R+25.9 R+23.0 D+2.9 16,114 17,547
Butte County R+61.2 R+58.1 D+3.1 4,351 4,802
Custer County R+46.1 R+42.4 D+3.7 4,721 5,494
Lawrence County R+34.3 R+30.5 D+3.8 11,842 13,828
Walworth County R+58.1 R+54.3 D+3.8 2,477 2,580
Hughes County R+33.3 R+29.4 D+3.9 8,175 8,723
Mellette County R+24.1 R+19.6 D+4.5 683 769
Sully County R+63.0 R+58.2 D+4.8 861 930
Stanley County R+52.3 R+47.3 D+5.0 1,567 1,652
Minnehaha County R+14.6 R+9.5 D+5.1 78,263 92,326
Buffalo County D+25.5 D+30.8 D+5.3 490 549
Meade County R+53.5 R+48.2 D+5.3 11,621 13,670
Charles Mix County R+42.2 R+36.4 D+5.8 3,433 3,783
Lincoln County R+29.4 R+23.6 D+5.8 25,231 32,396
Dewey County D+9.7 D+17.3 D+7.6 1,708 1,966
Pennington County R+32.9 R+25.2 D+7.7 47,743 57,518
Todd County D+47.9 D+56.3 D+8.4 2,125 2,539
Lyman County R+42.8 R+32.3 D+10.5 1,421 1,597
Ziebach County flipped R+2.0 D+8.5 D+10.5 767 906

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