See also: 2020 United States Senate elections.
Election Name: | 2020 United States Senate election in South Dakota |
Country: | South Dakota |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 2014 United States Senate election in South Dakota |
Previous Year: | 2014 |
Next Election: | 2026 United States Senate election in South Dakota |
Next Year: | 2026 |
Election Date: | November 3, 2020 |
Image1: | Mike Rounds official Senate portrait (cropped).jpg |
Nominee1: | Mike Rounds |
Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
Popular Vote1: | 276,232 |
Percentage1: | 65.74% |
Nominee2: | Dan Ahlers |
Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Popular Vote2: | 143,987 |
Percentage2: | 34.26% |
Map Size: | 240px |
U.S. Senator | |
Before Election: | Mike Rounds |
Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
After Election: | Mike Rounds |
After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
The 2020 United States Senate election in South Dakota was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of South Dakota, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republican Senator Mike Rounds was reelected to a second term in office, overperforming Donald Trump in the concurrent presidential election by 4.93 points.
Source | Ranking | As of | |
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align=left | The Cook Political Report[9] | October 29, 2020 | |
align=left | Inside Elections[10] | October 28, 2020 | |
align=left | Sabato's Crystal Ball[11] | November 2, 2020 | |
Daily Kos[12] | October 30, 2020 | ||
Politico[13] | November 2, 2020 | ||
RCP[14] | October 23, 2020 | ||
DDHQ[15] | November 3, 2020 | ||
538[16] | November 2, 2020 | ||
Economist[17] | November 2, 2020 |
County | Mike Rounds Republican | Daniel Ahlers Democratic | Margin | Total votes | |||||||||||
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data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | |||||||
Aurora | 1,002 | 71.32 | 403 | 28.68 | 599 | 42.63 | 1,405 | ||||||||
Beadle | 5,104 | 71.99 | 1,986 | 28.01 | 3,118 | 43.98 | 7,090 | ||||||||
Bennett | 729 | 62.52 | 437 | 37.48 | 292 | 25.04 | 1,166 | ||||||||
Bon Homme | 2,156 | 72.11 | 834 | 27.89 | 1,322 | 44.21 | 2,990 | ||||||||
Brookings | 8,792 | 60.48 | 5,746 | 39.52 | 3,046 | 20.95 | 14,538 | ||||||||
Brown | 11,168 | 64.00 | 6,283 | 36.00 | 4,885 | 27.99 | 17,451 | ||||||||
Brule | 1,735 | 69.65 | 756 | 30.35 | 979 | 39.30 | 2,491 | ||||||||
Buffalo | 223 | 40.92 | 322 | 59.08 | -99 | -18.16 | 545 | ||||||||
Butte | 3,809 | 79.85 | 961 | 20.15 | 2,848 | 59.71 | 4,770 | ||||||||
Campbell | 745 | 85.93 | 122 | 14.07 | 623 | 71.86 | 867 | ||||||||
Charles Mix | 2,542 | 66.88 | 1,259 | 33.12 | 1,283 | 33.75 | 3,801 | ||||||||
Clark | 1,397 | 75.64 | 450 | 24.36 | 947 | 51.27 | 1,847 | ||||||||
Clay | 2,857 | 50.44 | 2,807 | 49.56 | 50 | 0.88 | 5,664 | ||||||||
Codington | 9,479 | 72.33 | 3,626 | 27.67 | 5,853 | 44.66 | 13,105 | ||||||||
Corson | 681 | 53.88 | 583 | 46.12 | 98 | 7.75 | 1,264 | ||||||||
Custer | 3,973 | 72.82 | 1,483 | 27.18 | 2,490 | 45.64 | 5,456 | ||||||||
Davison | 5,893 | 69.88 | 2,540 | 30.12 | 3,353 | 39.76 | 8,433 | ||||||||
Day | 1,895 | 63.93 | 1,069 | 36.07 | 826 | 27.87 | 2,964 | ||||||||
Deuel | 1,714 | 73.18 | 628 | 26.81 | 1,086 | 46.37 | 2,342 | ||||||||
Dewey | 884 | 45.43 | 1,062 | 54.57 | -178 | -9.15 | 1,946 | ||||||||
Douglas | 1,469 | 86.21 | 235 | 13.79 | 1,234 | 72.42 | 1,704 | ||||||||
Edmunds | 1,539 | 77.45 | 448 | 22.55 | 1,091 | 54.91 | 1,987 | ||||||||
Fall River | 3,009 | 75.19 | 993 | 24.81 | 2,016 | 50.37 | 4,002 | ||||||||
Faulk | 975 | 82.07 | 213 | 17.93 | 762 | 64.14 | 1,188 | ||||||||
Grant | 2,723 | 72.63 | 1,026 | 27.37 | 1,697 | 45.26 | 3,749 | ||||||||
Gregory | 1,766 | 78.35 | 488 | 21.65 | 1,278 | 56.70 | 2,254 | ||||||||
Haakon | 1,032 | 90.69 | 106 | 9.31 | 926 | 81.37 | 1,138 | ||||||||
Hamlin | 2,413 | 78.60 | 657 | 21.40 | 1,756 | 57.20 | 3,070 | ||||||||
Hand | 1,480 | 79.66 | 378 | 20.34 | 1,102 | 59.31 | 1,858 | ||||||||
Hanson | 1,796 | 76.10 | 564 | 23.90 | 1,232 | 52.20 | 2,360 | ||||||||
Harding | 727 | 90.87 | 73 | 9.13 | 654 | 81.75 | 800 | ||||||||
Hughes | 6,217 | 70.95 | 2,546 | 29.05 | 3,671 | 41.89 | 8,763 | ||||||||
Hutchinson | 2,982 | 79.44 | 772 | 20.56 | 2,210 | 58.87 | 3,754 | ||||||||
Hyde | 568 | 79.89 | 143 | 20.11 | 425 | 59.78 | 711 | ||||||||
Jackson | 756 | 67.92 | 357 | 32.08 | 399 | 35.85 | 1,113 | ||||||||
Jerauld | 720 | 72.22 | 277 | 27.78 | 443 | 44.43 | 997 | ||||||||
Jones | 497 | 83.39 | 99 | 16.61 | 398 | 66.78 | 596 | ||||||||
Kingsbury | 1,970 | 70.89 | 809 | 29.11 | 1,161 | 41.78 | 2,779 | ||||||||
Lake | 3,816 | 64.84 | 2,069 | 35.16 | 1,747 | 29.69 | 5,885 | ||||||||
Lawrence | 9,385 | 68.29 | 4,358 | 31.71 | 5,027 | 36.58 | 13,743 | ||||||||
Lincoln | 21,221 | 65.83 | 11,013 | 34.17 | 10,208 | 31.67 | 32,234 | ||||||||
Lyman | 1,066 | 66.67 | 533 | 33.33 | 533 | 33.33 | 1,599 | ||||||||
Marshall | 1,334 | 61.00 | 853 | 39.00 | 481 | 22.00 | 2,187 | ||||||||
McCook | 2,072 | 71.28 | 835 | 28.72 | 1,237 | 42.55 | 2,907 | ||||||||
McPherson | 1,086 | 82.21 | 235 | 17.79 | 851 | 64.42 | 1,321 | ||||||||
Meade | 10,355 | 76.53 | 3,176 | 23.47 | 7,179 | 53.06 | 13,531 | ||||||||
Mellette | 468 | 60.70 | 303 | 39.30 | 165 | 21.40 | 771 | ||||||||
Miner | 807 | 70.42 | 339 | 29.58 | 468 | 40.84 | 1,146 | ||||||||
Minnehaha | 52,773 | 57.63 | 38,799 | 42.37 | 13,974 | 15.26 | 91,572 | ||||||||
Moody | 1,877 | 58.29 | 1,343 | 41.71 | 534 | 16.58 | 3,220 | ||||||||
Oglala Lakota | 510 | 15.93 | 2,691 | 84.07 | -2,181 | -68.14 | 3,201 | ||||||||
Pennington | 37,694 | 66.27 | 19,184 | 33.73 | 18,510 | 32.54 | 56,878 | ||||||||
Perkins | 1,395 | 84.85 | 249 | 15.15 | 1,146 | 69.71 | 1,644 | ||||||||
Potter | 1,160 | 83.82 | 224 | 16.18 | 936 | 67.63 | 1,384 | ||||||||
Roberts | 2,529 | 58.87 | 1,767 | 41.13 | 762 | 17.74 | 4,296 | ||||||||
Sanborn | 898 | 76.17 | 281 | 23.83 | 617 | 52.33 | 1,179 | ||||||||
Spink | 2,178 | 68.84 | 986 | 31.16 | 1,192 | 37.67 | 3,164 | ||||||||
Stanley | 1,274 | 77.12 | 378 | 22.88 | 896 | 54.24 | 1,652 | ||||||||
Sully | 759 | 81.88 | 168 | 18.12 | 591 | 63.75 | 927 | ||||||||
Todd | 706 | 28.22 | 1,796 | 71.78 | -1,090 | -43.56 | 2,502 | ||||||||
Tripp | 2,188 | 81.34 | 502 | 18.66 | 1,686 | 62.68 | 2,690 | ||||||||
Turner | 3,416 | 75.21 | 1,126 | 24.79 | 2,290 | 50.42 | 4,542 | ||||||||
Union | 6,364 | 72.56 | 2,407 | 27.44 | 3,957 | 45.12 | 8,771 | ||||||||
Walworth | 2,040 | 79.53 | 525 | 20.47 | 1,515 | 59.06 | 2,565 | ||||||||
Yankton | 6,994 | 64.51 | 3,848 | 35.49 | 3,146 | 29.02 | 10,842 | ||||||||
Ziebach | 450 | 49.56 | 458 | 50.44 | -8 | -0.88 | 908 | ||||||||
Totals | 276,232 | 65.74 | 143,987 | 34.26 | 132,245 | 31.47 | 420,219 |