2014 South Dakota Attorney General election
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The 2014 South Dakota Attorney General election was held on November 4, 2014. Incumbent Marty Jackley successfully ran for a second full term after first being appointed to the position in 2009. The Democratic Party did not run a candidate, and Jackley beat Chad Haber of the Libertarian Party in a landslide.
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November 4, 2014
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 County results Jackley: 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% Haber: 50–60% 60–70% | |||||||||||||||||
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The Libertarian Party ran a negative campaign, accusing Jackley of large-scale corruption. Haber is the husband of former U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth, who was, at the time, being investigated by the Attorney General's office on 12 felony election law charges.[1] A year after the election, Haber still owed over $6,000 for multiple violations of campaign finance law.[2]
Background
In 2009, Republican Marty Jackley was first appointed attorney general by then-governor Mike Rounds. Jackley succeeded one-term Republican incumbent Larry Long, who opted to be appointed by Governor Mike Rounds to be a circuit court judge in Sioux Falls. Jackley was then elected in 2010 for his first full term.[3]
Republican nomination
Jackley ran unopposed for the Republican nomination at the August 2014 convention.[4]
Candidates
Nominee
- Marty Jackley, incumbent attorney general[4]
Libertarian convention
Candidates
Nominee
Eliminated at convention
- Kurt Evans, former U.S. Senate candidate (later ran for state auditor)[1]
- Bob Newland, former Attorney General candidate[1]
Results
| 2014 South Dakota Attorney General Libertarian Convention results | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | Percentage | ||
| Chad Haber | 15 | 50.00% | ||
| Kurt Evans | 10 | 33.33% | ||
| Bob Newland | 3 | 10.00% | ||
| None of the above | 2 | 6.66% | ||
| Total | 30 | 100.00% | ||
General election
Results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Marty Jackley (incumbent) | 208,848 | 82.00% | ||
| Libertarian | Chad Haber | 45,856 | 18.00% | ||
| Total votes | 254,704 | 100.00% | |||
| Republican hold | |||||
By county
| County[5] | Marty Jackley Republican |
Chad Haber Libertarian |
Margin | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Aurora | 885 | 82.94% | 182 | 17.06% | 703 | 65.89% | 1,067 |
| Beadle | 4,433 | 83.80% | 857 | 16.20% | 3,576 | 67.60% | 5,290 |
| Bennett | 644 | 75.94% | 204 | 24.06% | 440 | 51.89% | 848 |
| Bon Homme | 1,833 | 82.68% | 384 | 17.32% | 1,449 | 65.36% | 2,217 |
| Brookings | 6,753 | 80.83% | 1,602 | 19.17% | 5,151 | 61.65% | 8,355 |
| Brown | 8,561 | 78.06% | 2,406 | 21.94% | 6,155 | 56.12% | 10,967 |
| Brule | 1,442 | 84.97% | 255 | 15.03% | 1,187 | 69.95% | 1,697 |
| Buffalo | 243 | 58.70% | 171 | 41.30% | 72 | 17.39% | 414 |
| Butte | 2,571 | 84.02% | 489 | 15.98% | 2,082 | 68.04% | 3,060 |
| Campbell | 528 | 89.19% | 64 | 10.81% | 464 | 78.38% | 592 |
| Charles Mix | 2,368 | 80.65% | 568 | 19.35% | 1,800 | 61.31% | 2,936 |
| Clark | 1,150 | 85.00% | 203 | 15.00% | 947 | 69.99% | 1,353 |
| Clay | 2,382 | 73.63% | 853 | 26.37% | 1,529 | 47.26% | 3,235 |
| Codington | 7,021 | 83.52% | 1,385 | 16.48% | 5,636 | 67.05% | 8,406 |
| Corson | 512 | 63.37% | 296 | 36.63% | 216 | 26.73% | 808 |
| Custer | 2,848 | 83.45% | 565 | 16.55% | 2,283 | 66.89% | 3,413 |
| Davison | 4,866 | 85.53% | 823 | 14.47% | 4,043 | 71.07% | 5,689 |
| Day | 1,655 | 76.76% | 501 | 23.24% | 1,154 | 53.53% | 2,156 |
| Deuel | 1,387 | 83.76% | 269 | 16.24% | 1,118 | 67.51% | 1,656 |
| Dewey | 809 | 61.90% | 498 | 38.10% | 311 | 23.79% | 1,307 |
| Douglas | 1,139 | 92.30% | 95 | 7.70% | 1,044 | 84.60% | 1,234 |
| Edmunds | 1,334 | 85.29% | 230 | 14.71% | 1,104 | 70.59% | 1,564 |
| Fall River | 2,169 | 80.57% | 523 | 19.43% | 1,646 | 61.14% | 2,692 |
| Faulk | 714 | 87.29% | 104 | 12.71% | 610 | 74.57% | 818 |
| Grant | 2,155 | 81.35% | 494 | 18.65% | 1,661 | 62.70% | 2,649 |
| Gregory | 1,489 | 87.49% | 213 | 12.51% | 1,276 | 74.97% | 1,702 |
| Haakon | 781 | 92.54% | 63 | 7.46% | 718 | 85.07% | 844 |
| Hamlin | 1,814 | 86.26% | 289 | 13.74% | 1,525 | 72.52% | 2,103 |
| Hand | 1,256 | 90.10% | 138 | 9.90% | 1,118 | 80.20% | 1,394 |
| Hanson | 1,066 | 86.32% | 169 | 13.68% | 897 | 72.63% | 1,235 |
| Harding | 520 | 89.81% | 59 | 10.19% | 461 | 79.62% | 579 |
| Hughes | 5,952 | 89.13% | 726 | 10.87% | 5,226 | 78.26% | 6,678 |
| Hutchinson | 2,356 | 90.48% | 248 | 9.52% | 2,108 | 80.95% | 2,604 |
| Hyde | 510 | 89.63% | 59 | 10.37% | 451 | 79.26% | 569 |
| Jackson | 659 | 77.44% | 192 | 22.56% | 467 | 54.88% | 851 |
| Jerauld | 669 | 88.03% | 91 | 11.97% | 578 | 76.05% | 760 |
| Jones | 420 | 92.11% | 36 | 7.89% | 384 | 84.21% | 456 |
| Kingsbury | 1,628 | 83.49% | 322 | 16.51% | 1,306 | 66.97% | 1,950 |
| Lake | 3,691 | 83.72% | 718 | 16.28% | 2,973 | 67.43% | 4,409 |
| Lawrence | 6,694 | 81.79% | 1,490 | 18.21% | 5,204 | 63.59% | 8,184 |
| Lincoln | 13,514 | 86.46% | 2,116 | 13.54% | 11,398 | 72.92% | 15,630 |
| Lyman | 951 | 80.94% | 224 | 19.06% | 727 | 61.87% | 1,175 |
| Marshall | 1,198 | 79.23% | 314 | 20.77% | 884 | 58.47% | 1,512 |
| McCook | 1,643 | 86.84% | 249 | 13.16% | 1,394 | 73.68% | 1,892 |
| McPherson | 856 | 88.61% | 110 | 11.39% | 746 | 77.23% | 966 |
| Meade | 6,829 | 85.62% | 1,147 | 14.38% | 5,682 | 71.24% | 7,976 |
| Mellette | 469 | 74.44% | 161 | 25.56% | 308 | 48.89% | 630 |
| Miner | 681 | 85.88% | 112 | 14.12% | 569 | 71.75% | 793 |
| Minnehaha | 39,817 | 81.51% | 9,034 | 18.49% | 30,783 | 63.01% | 48,851 |
| Moody | 1,729 | 78.88% | 463 | 21.12% | 1,266 | 57.76% | 2,192 |
| Pennington | 25,421 | 82.10% | 5,544 | 17.90% | 19,877 | 64.19% | 30,965 |
| Perkins | 1,060 | 85.14% | 185 | 14.86% | 875 | 70.28% | 1,245 |
| Potter | 1,009 | 90.74% | 103 | 9.26% | 906 | 81.47% | 1,112 |
| Roberts | 2,179 | 74.67% | 739 | 25.33% | 1,440 | 49.35% | 2,918 |
| Sanborn | 684 | 84.76% | 123 | 15.24% | 561 | 69.52% | 807 |
| Shannon | 680 | 31.01% | 1,513 | 68.99% | -833 | -37.98% | 2,193 |
| Spink | 1,928 | 83.18% | 390 | 16.82% | 1,538 | 66.35% | 2,318 |
| Stanley | 1,091 | 88.70% | 139 | 11.30% | 952 | 77.40% | 1,230 |
| Sully | 592 | 90.24% | 64 | 9.76% | 528 | 80.49% | 656 |
| Todd | 823 | 45.29% | 994 | 54.71% | -171 | -9.41% | 1,817 |
| Tripp | 1,845 | 87.48% | 264 | 12.52% | 1,581 | 74.96% | 2,109 |
| Turner | 2,598 | 85.01% | 458 | 14.99% | 2,140 | 70.03% | 3,056 |
| Union | 3,778 | 81.49% | 858 | 18.51% | 2,920 | 62.99% | 4,636 |
| Walworth | 1,558 | 86.22% | 249 | 13.78% | 1,309 | 72.44% | 1,807 |
| Yankton | 5,617 | 81.25% | 1,296 | 18.75% | 4,321 | 62.51% | 6,913 |
| Ziebach | 391 | 69.33% | 173 | 30.67% | 218 | 38.65% | 564 |
| Totals | 208,848 | 82.00% | 45,856 | 18.00% | 162,992 | 63.99% | 254,704 |
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
- Buffalo (largest city: Fort Thompson)
- Corson (largest city: McLaughlin)
- Dewey (largest city: North Eagle Butte)
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Libertarian
- Shannon (largest city: Pine Ridge)
- Todd (largest city: Mission)