United States presidential election in South Dakota, 2012

South Dakota Republican primary, 2012
	June 5, 2012
	June 5, 2012
	South Dakota results by county Mitt Romney (Note: Italicization indicates a withdrawn candidacy)

United States presidential election in South Dakota, 2012
	November 6, 2012
	November 6, 2012
Romney 40-50% 50-60% 60-70% 70-80% 80-90%	Obama 50-60% 60-70% 70-80% >90%
President before election; Barack Obama; Democratic	Elected President ; Barack Obama; Democratic

The 2012 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 6, 2012, as part of the 2012 General Election in which all 50 states plus The District of Columbia participated. South Dakota voters chose three electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama and his running mate, Vice President Joe Biden, against Republican challenger and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and his running mate, Congressman Paul Ryan. Prior to the election, 17 news organizations considered this a state Romney would win, or otherwise considered as a safe red state. Romney won South Dakota by an 18.02% margin of victory.

General Election

Results

United States presidential election in South Dakota, 2012^[1]
Party		Candidate	Running mate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Republican	Mitt Romney	Paul Ryan	210,610	57.89%	3
	Democratic	Barack Obama	Joe Biden	145,039	39.87%	0
	Libertarian	Gary Johnson	Jim Gray	5,795	1.59%	0
	Constitution	Virgil Goode	Jim Clymer	2,371	0.65%	0
Totals				363,815	100.00%	3

By county

County	Obama%	Obama#	Romney%	Romney#	Others%	Others#	Total
Aurora	39.71%	556	57.43%	804	2.86%	40	1,400
Beadle	39.67%	2,881	58.24%	4,230	2.09%	152	7,263
Bennett	45.55%	548	52.04%	626	2.41%	29	1,203
Bon Homme	37.96%	1,167	59.53%	1,830	2.50%	77	3,074
Brookings	46.99%	5,827	50.16%	6,220	2.85%	353	12,400
Brown	45.12%	7,250	51.79%	8,321	3.09%	497	16,068
Brule	34.64%	824	63.01%	1,499	2.35%	56	2,379
Buffalo	73.63%	472	25.90%	166	0.47%	3	641
Butte	23.81%	1,002	73.03%	3,073	3.16%	133	4,208
Campbell	19.44%	153	78.27%	616	2.29%	18	787
Charles Mix	39.40%	1,483	59.25%	2,230	1.35%	51	3,764
Clark	39.15%	713	58.59%	1,067	2.25%	41	1,821
Clay	56.46%	2,955	41.02%	2,147	2.52%	132	5,234
Codington	39.81%	4,588	58.10%	6,696	2.08%	240	11,524
Corson	54.00%	648	42.92%	515	3.08%	37	1,200
Custer	29.54%	1,335	67.74%	3,062	2.72%	123	4,520
Davison	38.16%	3,042	59.68%	4,757	2.16%	172	7,971
Day	52.11%	1,497	45.95%	1,320	1.95%	56	2,873
Deuel	43.34%	941	54.12%	1,175	2.53%	55	2,171
Dewey	63.69%	1,207	34.99%	663	1.32%	25	1,895
Douglas	19.64%	332	78.93%	1,334	1.42%	24	1,690
Edmunds	32.13%	622	65.29%	1,264	2.58%	50	1,936
Fall River	32.42%	1,140	64.22%	2,258	3.36%	118	3,516
Faulk	29.37%	331	67.88%	765	2.75%	31	1,127
Grant	41.40%	1,493	56.41%	2,034	2.19%	79	3,606
Gregory	27.85%	599	70.06%	1,507	2.09%	45	2,151
Haakon	12.64%	138	86.08%	940	1.28%	14	1,092
Hamlin	32.98%	921	64.55%	1,803	2.47%	69	2,793
Hand	31.11%	575	67.21%	1,242	1.68%	31	1,848
Hanson	31.46%	760	67.34%	1,627	1.20%	29	2,416
Harding	11.10%	82	86.33%	638	2.57%	19	739
Hughes	34.16%	2,786	64.00%	5,219	1.84%	150	8,155
Hutchinson	26.95%	923	71.56%	2,451	1.49%	51	3,425
Hyde	25.78%	189	72.44%	531	1.77%	13	733
Jackson	38.52%	426	59.76%	661	1.72%	19	1,106
Jerauld	44.93%	452	53.48%	538	1.59%	16	1,006
Jones	17.73%	108	80.46%	490	1.81%	11	609
Kingsbury	41.87%	1,092	55.64%	1,451	2.49%	65	2,608
Lake	43.34%	2,724	54.40%	3,419	2.26%	142	6,285
Lawrence	34.98%	3,973	61.85%	7,025	3.18%	361	11,359
Lincoln	36.36%	7,982	62.00%	13,611	1.64%	359	21,952
Lyman	38.56%	605	59.46%	933	1.98%	31	1,569
McCook	53.40%	1,061	44.74%	889	1.86%	37	1,987
McPherson	34.63%	905	63.34%	1,655	2.03%	53	2,613
Marshall	22.39%	272	75.80%	921	1.81%	22	1,215
Meade	27.07%	2,928	69.95%	7,566	2.99%	323	10,817
Mellette	48.76%	375	49.54%	381	1.69%	13	769
Miner	42.02%	479	55.79%	636	2.19%	25	1,140
Minnehaha	45.28%	34,674	52.68%	40,342	2.05%	1,567	76,583
Moody	47.12%	1,429	50.61%	1,535	2.27%	69	3,033
Oglala Lakota	34.02%	15,125	63.49%	28,232	2.49%	1,107	44,464
Pennington	20.06%	319	75.79%	1,205	4.15%	66	1,590
Perkins	24.55%	339	74.51%	1,029	0.94%	13	1,381
Potter	54.09%	2,302	44.24%	1,883	1.67%	71	4,256
Roberts	34.89%	389	61.70%	688	3.41%	38	1,115
Sanborn	93.39%	2,937	05.98%	188	0.64%	20	3,145
Spink	42.75%	1,300	54.92%	1,670	2.33%	71	3,041
Stanley	28.25%	435	69.03%	1,063	2.73%	42	1,540
Sully	22.74%	186	74.94%	613	2.32%	19	818
Todd	79.13%	1,976	19.94%	498	0.92%	23	2,497
Tripp	27.39%	737	70.79%	1,905	1.82%	49	2,691
Turner	33.52%	1,411	64.49%	2,715	2.00%	84	4,210
Union	36.62%	2,782	61.85%	4,698	1.53%	116	7,596
Walworth	27.25%	671	70.31%	1,731	2.44%	60	2,462
Yankton	42.37%	4,226	55.09%	5,495	2.54%	253	9,974
Ziebach	57.69%	439	41.26%	314	1.05%	8	761

Republican primary

The Republican primary took place on June 5, 2012.^[2] 25 delegates will be chosen, for a total of 28 delegates to go to the national convention.

South Dakota Republican primary, 2012
Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Delegates
Mitt Romney	34,033	66.1%	25
Ron Paul	6,704	13.01%	0
Rick Santorum	5,916	11.48%	0
Uncommitted	2,797	5.43%	0
Newt Gingrich	2,074	4.03%	0
Unpledged delegates:			3
Total:	51,524	100.0%	28

Key:

Withdrew prior to contest

References

↑ "South Dakota Secretary of State". Retrieved 2012-12-09.
↑ "Primary and Caucus Printable Calendar". CNN. Retrieved January 12, 2012.

External links

The Green Papers: for South Dakota
The Green Papers: Major state elections in chronological order

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[1] "South Dakota Secretary of State". Retrieved 2012-12-09.

[2] "Primary and Caucus Printable Calendar". CNN. Retrieved January 12, 2012.

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