United States presidential election in South Dakota, 1972

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South Dakota was a home state of George McGovern, Democratic nominee during 1972 presidential election.

Although McGovern, a member of the liberal wing of his party in relatively conservative state, was at time of election two-term popular Senator, winning re-election in 1968 by 56.8% of votes, he lost presidential vote here by a significant margin to incumbent President Richard Nixon.

Loss of South Dakota made McGovern the second candidate in four years to loss state of birth (In 1968 Hubert Humphrey, resident of Minnesota, lost South Dakota as well, where he was born) and residence (also in 1968 Richard Nixon lost New York, were he then resided). McGovern remained the last candidate to lost residence state until 2000, when Al Gore lost Tennessee (as of birth state, George H. W. Bush twice lost Massachusetts, George W. Bush twice lost Connecticut and John Kerry lost Colorado).

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Presidential Candidate	Running Mate	Party	Electoral Vote (EV)	Popular Vote (PV)
Richard Nixon of California	Spiro Agnew of Maryland	Republican	4	166,476	54.15%
George McGovern of South Dakota	Sargent Shriver of Maryland	Democratic	0	139,945	45.52%
Linda Jenness of Georgia	Andrew Pulley of Illinois	Socialist Workers^[1]	0	994	0.34%