The 2024 United States presidential election in South Dakota is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the
2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the
District of Columbia will participate.
South Dakota voters will choose electors to represent them in the
Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of South Dakota has three electoral votes in the Electoral College, following
reapportionment due to the
2020 United States census in which the state neither gained nor lost a seat.[1]
South Dakota is sparsely populated state in the
Great Plains, and is a Republican stronghold at both the state and presidential levels. It hasn't voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since
Lyndon B. Johnson carried it in
1964, against the backdrop of his nationwide
landslide victory; not even in
1972, when
favorite sonGeorge McGovern lost his state by a wide margin of 8.6%. South Dakota is widely expected to back
Donald Trump again in 2024.
Incumbent Democratic president
Joe Biden is running for reelection to a second term.[2]
The South Dakota Republican primary was held on June 4, 2024, alongside primaries in
Montana,
New Jersey, and
New Mexico. Under state law, no primary will be held if a candidate runs for a nomination unopposed.[3] As
Donald Trump was the only Republican candidate to file for the presidential primary, no popular vote was held.[4]