2024 South Dakota House of Representatives election

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2024 South Dakota House of Representatives election
← 2022 November 5, 2024 2026 →
All 70 seats in the South Dakota House of Representatives
36 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Hugh Bartels
(term-limited)		 Oren Lesmeister
(term-limited)
Party Republican Democratic
Leader's seat District 5 District 28A
Seats before 63 7
Seats after 64 6
Seat change Increase 1 Decrease 1
Popular vote 452,994 114,668
Percentage 78.03% 19.75%
Swing Increase 2.53% Decrease 4.08%
Results:
     Republican gain      Democratic gain
     Republican hold      Democratic hold
Speaker before election

Hugh Bartels
Republican

 Elected Speaker

Jon Hansen
Republican

The 2024 South Dakota House of Representatives elections were held on November 5, 2024, to elect all 70 seats in the South Dakota House of Representatives.[1] The elections coincided with the presidential, U.S. House, and State Senate elections. The primary elections were held on June 4, 2024.[2]

In the 2020 presidential election, Republican Donald Trump won 33 of South Dakota's state House of Representatives districts and Democrat Joe Biden won 4 districts. Going into the 2024 South Dakota House of Representatives election, Republicans held one House of Representatives seat in a district that voted for Biden in 2020: District 27, a rural district with a majority Native American population (Biden +8%). Conversely, Democrats held one House seat in a district that voted for Trump in 2020: District 28A, another rural district also with a majority Native American population (Trump +3%).

Retirements

Democrats

  1. District 15: Linda Duba retired.[3]
  2. District 28A: Oren Lesmeister was term-limited.[4]

Republicans

  1. District 1: Joe Donnell retired.[5]
  2. District 3: Carl E. Perry retired to run for State Senate.[6]
  3. District 4: Fred Deutsch retired to run for State Senate.[7]
  4. District 4: Stephanie Sauder retired to run for State Senate.[8]
  5. District 5: Hugh Bartels was term-limited.[4]
  6. District 6: Ernie Otten retired to run for State Senate.[9]
  7. District 8: John Mills was term-limited.[4]
  8. District 9: Kenneth Teunissen retired.[5]
  9. District 11: Chris Karr was term-limited (running for State Senate).[4][5]
  10. District 13: Sue Peterson was term-limited (running for State Senate).[4][5]
  11. District 16: Kevin D. Jensen was term-limited (running for State Senate).[4][10]
  12. District 20: Lance Koth retired.[5]
  13. District 20: Ben Krohmer retired.[11]
  14. District 21: Rocky Blare retired.[5]
  15. District 22: Roger D. Chase was term-limited.[4]
  16. District 22: Lynn Schneider retired.[12]
  17. District 25: Randy Gross retired.[5]
  18. District 28B: Neil Pinnow retired.[5]
  19. District 29: Kirk Chaffee retired to run for State Senate.[5]
  20. District 30: Dennis Krull retired.[5]
  21. District 32: Kristin Conzet retired.[5]

Incumbents defeated

In primary elections

Six incumbent representatives, all Republicans, were defeated in the June 4 primary elections.[13]

Republicans

  1. District 1: Tamara St. John lost renomination to Logan Manhart and Christopher Reder.
  2. District 5: Byron Callies lost renomination to Josephine Garcia and Matt Roby.
  3. District 14: Tyler Tordsen lost renomination to Tony Kayser and Taylor Rehfeldt.
  4. District 23: James Wangsness lost renomination to Spencer Gosch and Scott Moore.
  5. District 29: Gary Cammack lost renomination to Terri Jorgenson and Kathy Rice.
  6. District 34: Becky Drury lost renomination to Heather Baxter and Mike Derby.

In general election

One incumbent representative, a Democrat, was defeated in the November 5 general election.[14]

Democrat

  1. District 10: Kameron Nelson lost reelection to Bobbi Andera.

Predictions

Source Ranking As of
Sabato's Crystal Ball[15] Safe R October 23, 2024

Results by district

See also

References

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