United States presidential election in South Dakota, 2004

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This article describes the United States presidential election, 2004, in South Dakota.

South Dakota is a reliable conservative and Republican state, having voted for Republican nominees in all Presidential election but 1964 since 1940, and George W. Bush easily carried the state, with a margin of victory of more than 20% against his Democratic challenger, John F. Kerry.

Presidential Candidate Running Mate Party Electoral Vote (EV) Popular Vote (PV)
George W. Bush of Texas Richard Cheney of Wyoming Republican 3 232,584 59.91%
John Kerry of Massachusetts John Edwards of North Carolina Democrat 0 149,244 38.44%
Ralph Nader of Connecticut Peter Camejo of California Reform 0 4,320 1.11%
Michael Peroutka of Maryland Chuck Baldwin of Florida Constitution 0 1,103 0.28%
Michael Badnarik of Texas Richard Campagna of Iowa Libertarian 0 964 0.25%
Others - - 0 6,961 0.33%
Other elections: 2000, 2004, 2008

Statewide winner in bold. See main article : U.S. presidential election, 2004.

[edit] Results by county

County Kerry % Kerry # Bush % Bush # Other % Other # Total #
Aurora County, South Dakota 37.6% 620 61.2% 1,009 1.2% 20
Beadle County, South Dakota 40.6% 3,443 58.0% 4,917 1.4% 120
Bennett County, South Dakota 46.6% 759 51.1% 833 2.3% 38
Bon Homme County, South Dakota 37.9% 1,293 60.5% 2,063 1.5% 52
Brookings County, South Dakota 40.7% 5,443 57.3% 7,662 2.0% 270
Brown County, South Dakota 42.7% 7,943 55.8% 10,386 1.5% 270
Brule County, South Dakota 39.6% 1,040 58.7% 1,544 1.7% 45
Buffalo County, South Dakota 71.7% 603 26.5% 223 1.8% 15
Butte County, South Dakota 23.6% 1,009 74.1% 3,166 2.2% 96
Campbell County, South Dakota 24.9% 239 73.8% 708 1.3% 12
Charles Mix County, South Dakota 44.9% 2,155 53.3% 2,556 1.8% 87
Clark County, South Dakota 37.6% 875 61.7% 1,435 0.7% 17
Clay County, South Dakota 54.0% 3,315 43.9% 2,692 2.1% 129
Codington County, South Dakota 37.7% 4,803 61.0% 7,778 1.3% 170
Corson County, South Dakota 56.4% 972 41.8% 720 1.9% 32
Custer County, South Dakota 29.6% 1,272 67.9% 2,922 2.6% 110
Davison County, South Dakota 36.4% 3,263 62.1% 5,561 1.4% 128
Day County, South Dakota 51.3% 1,817 47.2% 1,671 1.5% 52
Deuel County, South Dakota 39.8% 961 58.3% 1,406 1.9% 45
Dewey County, South Dakota 62.6% 1,606 35.9% 921 1.4% 37
Douglas County, South Dakota 19.5% 393 79.3% 1,596 1.1% 23
Edmunds County, South Dakota 34.2% 765 64.2% 1,434 1.6% 35
Fall River County, South Dakota 34.5% 1,326 62.8% 2,413 2.8% 106
Faulk County, South Dakota 30.5% 418 69.0% 945 0.4% 6
Grant County, South Dakota 39.9% 1,633 58.5% 2,392 1.6% 65
Gregory County, South Dakota 31.9% 813 66.2% 1,685 1.9% 48
Haakon County, South Dakota 17.7% 219 81.2% 1,007 1.1% 14
Hamlin County, South Dakota 33.7% 1,015 64.6% 1,946 1.7% 50
Hand County, South Dakota 30.5% 668 67.8% 1,482 1.7% 37
Hanson County, South Dakota 34.7% 745 64.1% 1,379 1.2% 26
Harding County, South Dakota 11.5% 94 86.4% 704 2.1% 17
Hughes County, South Dakota 30.5% 2,697 68.1% 6,017 1.4% 121
Hutchinson County, South Dakota 28.4% 1,177 69.9% 2,899 1.7% 71
Hyde County, South Dakota 28.8% 259 70.1% 631 1.1% 10
Jackson County, South Dakota 40.0% 508 57.1% 726 2.9% 37
Jerauld County, South Dakota 39.0% 482 59.5% 736 1.5% 18
Jones County, South Dakota 18.7% 134 78.8% 565 2.5% 18
Kingsbury County, South Dakota 38.6% 1,163 59.9% 1,804 1.6% 47
Lake County, South Dakota 41.8% 2,509 55.9% 3,359 2.3% 139
Lawrence County, South Dakota 33.2% 3,857 64.5% 7,489 2.3% 273
Lincoln County, South Dakota 33.4% 5,703 65.4% 11,161 1.2% 202
Lyman County, South Dakota 44.9% 872 53.0% 1,029 2.0% 39
McCook County, South Dakota 36.7% 1,201 61.7% 2,017 1.6% 53
McPherson County, South Dakota 23.4% 369 74.7% 1,180 1.9% 30
Marshall County, South Dakota 46.5% 1,099 52.5% 1,242 1.0% 23
Meade County, South Dakota 25.6% 2,941 72.6% 8,347 1.9% 216
Mellette County, South Dakota 38.8% 361 59.4% 553 1.8% 17
Miner County, South Dakota 43.6% 641 55.1% 810 1.3% 19
Minnehaha County, South Dakota 41.6% 32,314 56.9% 44,189 1.5% 1,129
Moody County, South Dakota 46.6% 1,609 51.9% 1,790 1.5% 52
Pennington County, South Dakota 31.6% 14,213 66.7% 29,976 1.7% 779
Perkins County, South Dakota 23.1% 418 73.3% 1,329 3.6% 66
Potter County, South Dakota 28.6% 463 70.6% 1,143 0.7% 12
Roberts County, South Dakota 50.7% 2,527 48.1% 2,396 1.2% 59
Sanborn County, South Dakota 40.7% 581 57.3% 817 2.0% 28
Shannon County, South Dakota 84.6% 3,566 12.5% 526 2.9% 122
Spink County, South Dakota 39.2% 1,478 59.9% 2,259 1.0% 37
Stanley County, South Dakota 28.6% 464 69.6% 1,129 1.8% 30
Sully County, South Dakota 21.9% 201 76.6% 702 1.5% 14
Todd County, South Dakota 72.2% 2,543 25.2% 889 2.6% 92
Tripp County, South Dakota 30.0% 972 68.7% 2,230 1.3% 43
Turner County, South Dakota 34.1% 1,646 63.8% 3,084 2.2% 104
Union County, South Dakota 42.6% 3,000 56.6% 3,987 0.9% 61
Walworth County, South Dakota 30.5% 878 68.3% 1,967 1.2% 35
Yankton County, South Dakota 40.6% 4,237 57.5% 6,003 1.8% 191
Ziebach County, South Dakota 57.4% 641 40.1% 447 2.5% 28

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