United States House election in South Dakota, 2024 (June 4 Republican primary)

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South Dakota's At-large Congressional District
Democratic primary Republican primary General election
Election details
Filing deadline: March 26, 2024
Primary: June 4, 2024 Primary runoff: July 30, 2024 General: November 5, 2024 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 Political Report: Solid Republican DDHQ and The Hill: Safe 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, 2024
See also
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The U.S. House of Representatives election in South Dakota was on November 5, 2024. Voters elected one candidate to serve in the U.S. House from the state's one at-large U.S. House district. The primary election was canceled after only one candidate filed in both the Democratic and Republican primaries. The filing deadline was March 26, 2024.

Candidate filing deadline	Primary election	General election
March 26, 2024	June 4, 2024	November 5, 2024

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, 2024 (June 4 Democratic primary)
• United States House of Representatives election in South Dakota, 2024

Candidates and election results

Republican primary election

The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Dusty Johnson advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House South Dakota At-large District.

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Christopher Sanders (R)
• Justin McNeal (R)

Candidate profiles

There were no candidate profiles created for this race. Candidate profiles would have appeared here as candidates completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey.

Voting information

See also: Voting in South Dakota

Election information in South Dakota: June 4, 2024, election.

What was the voter registration deadline?

• In-person: May 20, 2024
• By mail: Received by May 20, 2024
• Online: N/A

Was absentee/mail-in voting available to all voters?

N/A

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot request deadline?

• In-person: June 3, 2024
• By mail: Received by June 3, 2024
• Online: N/A

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot return deadline?

• In-person: June 4, 2024
• By mail: Received by June 4, 2024

Was early voting available to all voters?

N/A

What were the early voting start and end dates?

April 19, 2024 to June 3, 2024

Were all voters required to present ID at the polls? If so, was a photo or non-photo ID required?

N/A

When were polls open on Election Day?

7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. (CST/MST)

Campaign finance

This section contains campaign finance figures from the Federal Election Commission covering all candidate fundraising and spending in this election. It does not include information on fundraising before the current campaign cycle or on spending by satellite groups. The numbers in this section are updated as candidates file new campaign finance reports. Candidates for Congress are required to file financial reports on a quarterly basis, as well as two weeks before any primary, runoff, or general election in which they will be on the ballot and upon the termination of any campaign committees.

Name	Party	Receipts*	Disbursements**	Cash on hand	Date
Dusty Johnson	Republican Party	$4,377,059	$1,454,148	$5,245,125	As of December 31, 2024
Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2024. This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC). * According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee." ** According to the FEC, a disbursement "is a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit or gift of money or anything of value to influence a federal election," plus other kinds of payments not made to influence a federal election.

District analysis

• Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
• Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
• State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.

• Competitiveness
• Presidential elections
• State party control

See also: Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2024

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

South Dakota U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024
Office	Districts/ offices	Seats	Open seats	Candidates	Possible primaries	Contested Democratic primaries	Contested Republican primaries	% of contested primaries	Incumbents in contested primaries	% of incumbents in contested primaries
2024	1	1	0	2	2	0	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
2022	1	1	0	2	2	0	1	50.0%	1	100.0%
2020	1	1	0	2	2	0	1	50.0%	1	100.0%
2018	1	1	1	4	2	0	1	50.0%	0	N/A
2016	1	1	0	2	2	0	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
2014	1	1	0	2	2	0	0	0.0%	0	0.0%

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in South Dakota in 2024. Information below was calculated on April 23, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

Two candidates ran for South Dakota's one U.S. House district, including one Democrat and one Republican. That's the same as the two candidates who ran in 2022, 2020, 2016, and 2014. Four candidates ran in 2018, the only election cycle this decade in which more than two candidates ran for South Dakota's At-Large Congressional District.

Incumbent Dusty Johnson (R) ran for re-election. The only time the district was open this decade was in 2018 when Kristi Noem (R) retired to run for governor.

No primaries were contested in 2024. One primary was contested in 2022, 2020, and 2018, respectively. No primaries were contested in 2016 and 2014.

Johnson did not face a primary challenger in 2024. He faced primary challengers in 2022 and 2020.

This year was the first election cycle since 2018 in which a Democratic candidate was on the ballot. No Democratic candidates were on the ballot in 2022 and 2020. One Democratic candidate was on the ballot in 2018, 2016, and 2014, respectively.

Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries, meaning the seat was not guaranteed to either party.

Partisan Voter Index

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

Heading into the 2024 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 74th 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 2024 district lines
Joe Biden	Donald Trump
35.6%	61.8%

Inside Elections Baselines

See also: Inside Elections

Inside Elections' Baseline is a figure that analyzes all federal and statewide election results from the district over the past four election cycles. The results are combined in an index estimating the strength of a typical Democratic or Republican candidate in the congressional district. The table below displays the Baseline data for this district.

Inside Elections Baseline for 2024
Democratic Baseline	Republican Baseline	Difference
33.8	64.7	R+30.8

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

See also: Party control of South Dakota state government

Congressional delegation

The table below displays the partisan composition of South Dakota's congressional delegation as of May 2024.

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from South Dakota
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 May 2024.

State executive officials in South Dakota, May 2024
Office	Officeholder
Governor	Kristi L. Noem
Lieutenant Governor	Larry Rhoden
Secretary of State	Monae Johnson
Attorney General	Marty J. Jackley

State legislature

South Dakota State Senate

Party		As of February 2024
	Democratic Party	4
	Republican Party	31
	Other	0
	Vacancies	0
Total		35

South Dakota House of Representatives

Party		As of February 2024
	Democratic Party	7
	Republican Party	63
	Other	0
	Vacancies	0
Total		70

Trifecta control

The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.

South Dakota Party Control: 1992-2024
No Democratic trifectas  •  Thirty-one 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	23	24
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	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	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	R	R

Ballot access

The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in South Dakota in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in South Dakota, click here.

Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024
State	Office	Party	Signatures required	Filing fee	Filing deadline	Source
South Dakota	U.S. House	Democratic	1,232	N/A	3/26/2024	Source
South Dakota	U.S. House	Libertarian	741	N/A	3/26/2024	Source
South Dakota	U.S. House	Republican	2,171	N/A	3/26/2024	Source
South Dakota	U.S. House	Unaffiliated	3,502	N/A	4/30/2024	Source

See also

• United States House election in South Dakota, 2024 (June 4 Democratic primary)
• United States House of Representatives election in South Dakota, 2024
• United States House Republican Party primaries, 2024
• United States House of Representatives elections, 2024
• U.S. House battlegrounds, 2024

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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)