United States House election in South Dakota, 2022 (June 7 Republican primary)

Elections in South Dakota, 2022

• Primary date: June 7
• Mail-in registration deadline: May 23
• Online reg. deadline: N/A
• In-person reg. deadline: May 23

• Early voting starts: April 23
• Early voting ends: June 6
• Poll times: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Absentee/mail-in deadline: June 7

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South Dakota's At-large Congressional District
Democratic primary Republican primary General election
Election details
Filing deadline: March 29, 2022
Primary: June 7, 2022 Primary runoff: August 16, 2022 General: November 8, 2022 Pre-election incumbent: Dusty Johnson (Republican)
How to vote
Poll times: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Voting in South Dakota
Race ratings
Cook Partisan Voter Index (2022): R+16 Cook Political Report: Solid Republican Inside Elections: Solid Republican Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Republican
Ballotpedia analysis
U.S. Senate battlegrounds U.S. House battlegrounds Federal and state primary competitiveness Ballotpedia's Election Analysis Hub, 2022
See also
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The U.S. House of Representatives election in South Dakota was on November 8, 2022. Voters elected one candidate to serve in the U.S. House from the state's one at-large U.S. House district. The primary was scheduled for June 7, 2022, and a primary runoff was scheduled for August 16, 2022. The filing deadline was March 29, 2022.

Candidate filing deadline	Primary election	General election
March 29, 2022	June 7, 2022	November 8, 2022

Heading into the election, the incumbent was Dusty Johnson (Republican), who was first elected in 2018.

A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. South Dakota law allows parties to choose whether to let unaffiliated voters vote in their elections. For more information on recognized political parties in South Dakota and their primary policies, see here.

For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.

This page focuses on South Dakota's Republican primary for the U.S. House. For more in-depth information on the state's Democratic primary and the general election, see the following pages:

• United States House election in South Dakota, 2022 (June 7 Democratic primary)
• United States House of Representatives elections in South Dakota, 2022

Candidates and election results

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House South Dakota At-large District

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Dusty Johnson	59.2	70,728
		Taffy Howard	40.8	48,645

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 119,373
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Ballot access requirements

The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in South Dakota in the 2022 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in South Dakota, click here.

Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2022
State	Office	Party	Signatures required	Filing fee	Filing deadline	Source
South Dakota	U.S. House	Ballot-qualified party	1% of all votes cast for the party's gubernatorial nominee in 2018	N/A	3/29/2022	Source
South Dakota	U.S. House	Unaffiliated	1% of all votes cast governor in 2018	N/A	4/26/2022	Source

District analysis

Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.

• District map - An interactive map of the district including cities and towns.
• Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2022 U.S. House elections in the state.
• Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
• Demographics - Information about the state's demographics and how they compare to the country as a whole.
• State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.

District map

Below was the map in use at the time of the election. Because South Dakota only has one district, it did not change as part of the 2020 redistricting cycle.

Competitiveness

See also: Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2022

This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in South Dakota.

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in South Dakota in 2022. Information below was calculated on April 22, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

Two candidates filed to run for South Dakota's one U.S. House seat in 2022. The filing deadline for this election was March 29. This was the fewest number of candidates to file for the seat since 2016 (when there were also two candidates). Three candidates ran for the seat in 2020, and six candidates ran in 2018.

Here are some other highlights from this year’s filings:

• This was the second election cycle in a row with no Democratic candidate on the ballot.
• Because it had only one U.S. House seat, South Dakota did not need to redistrict after the 2020 census
• Rep. Dusty Johnson (R) ran for re-election. He was elected in 2018 when Kristi Noem (R) retired to run for governor.

Presidential elections

Partisan Voter Index

See also: The Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index

Heading into the 2022 elections, based on results from the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was R+16. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 16 percentage points more Republican than the national average. This made South Dakota's At-Large the 77th most Republican district nationally.

2020 presidential election results

The table below shows what the vote in the 2020 presidential election would have been in this district. The presidential election data was compiled by Daily Kos.

2020 presidential results in South Dakota's At-Large based on 2022 district lines
Joe Biden	Donald Trump
35.6%	61.8%

Presidential voting history

See also: Presidential election in South Dakota, 2020

South Dakota presidential election results (1900-2020)

• 3 Democratic wins
• 27 Republican wins
• 1 other win

Year	1900	1904	1908	1912	1916	1920	1924	1928	1932	1936	1940	1944	1948	1952	1956	1960	1964	1968	1972	1976	1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012	2016	2020
Winning Party	R	R	R	P	R	R	R	R	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R

Demographics

The table below details demographic data in South Dakota and compares it to the broader United States as of 2019.

Demographic Data for South Dakota
	South Dakota	United States
Population	814,180	308,745,538
Land area (sq mi)	75,809	3,531,905
Race and ethnicity**
White	84.3%	72.5%
Black/African American	2%	12.7%
Asian	1.5%	5.5%
Native American	8.8%	0.8%
Pacific Islander	0.1%	0.2%
Other (single race)	0.8%	4.9%
Multiple	2.6%	3.3%
Hispanic/Latino	3.8%	18%
Education
High school graduation rate	91.7%	88%
College graduation rate	28.8%	32.1%
Income
Median household income	$58,275	$62,843
Persons below poverty level	13.1%	13.4%
Source: population provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "Decennial Census" (2010). Other figures provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2014-2019).
**Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.

State party control

Congressional delegation

The table below displays the partisan composition of South Dakota's congressional delegation as of November 2022.

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from South Dakota, November 2022
Party	U.S. Senate	U.S. House	Total
Democratic	0	0	0
Republican	2	1	3
Independent	0	0	0
Vacancies	0	0	0
Total	2	1	3

State executive

The table below displays the officeholders in South Dakota's top four state executive offices as of November 2022.

State executive officials in South Dakota, November 2022
Office	Officeholder
Governor	Kristi L. Noem
Lieutenant Governor	Larry Rhoden
Secretary of State	Steve Barnett
Attorney General	Mark Vargo

State legislature

The tables below highlight the partisan composition of the South Dakota State Legislature as of November 2022.

South Dakota State Senate

Party		As of November 2022
	Democratic Party	3
	Republican Party	32
	Vacancies	0
Total		35

South Dakota House of Representatives

Party		As of November 2022
	Democratic Party	8
	Republican Party	62
	Vacancies	0
Total		70

Trifecta control

As of November 2022, South Dakota was a Republican trifecta, with majorities in both chambers of the state legislature and control of the governorship. The table below displays the historical trifecta status of the state.

South Dakota Party Control: 1992-2022
No Democratic trifectas  •  Twenty-nine years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

Year	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Governor	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
Senate	R	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
House	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R

See also

• United States House election in South Dakota, 2022 (June 7 Democratic primary)
• United States House Republican Party primaries, 2022
• United States House of Representatives elections, 2022
• U.S. House battlegrounds, 2022

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South Dakota's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Mike Rounds (R)

John Thune (R)

Representatives

Dusty Johnson (R)

Republican Party (3)