1996 United States presidential election in South Dakota

none June 2025 September 2023 1996 United States presidential election 1996 United States presidential election in South Dakota South Dakota presidential no 1992 United States presidential election in South Dakota 1992 2000 United States presidential election in South Dakota 2000 November 5, 1996 x160px Ks 1996 dole (cropped).jpg Bob Dole Republican Party (United States) Kansas Jack Kemp 3 150,543 46.49% Bill Clinton.jpg Bill Clinton Democratic Party (United States) Arkansas Al Gore 0 139,333 43.03% RossPerotColor.jpg Ross Perot Independent Texas James Campbell On the California, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas election ballots, James Campbell of California, Perot's former boss at IBM, was listed as a stand-in vice-presidential candidate until Perot decided on Pat Choate as his choice for Vice President. 0 31,250 9.65% 1996 United States presidential election in South Dakota results map by county.svg 300px County results Dole #f2b3be 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% Clinton #b9d7ff 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645B4 80–90% President Bill Clinton Democratic Party (United States) Bill Clinton Democratic Party (United States) Reform Party of the United States of America The 1996 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 5, 1996. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1996 United States presidential election. Voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. South Dakota was won by Kansas Senator Bob Dole, who was running against incumbent United States President Bill Clinton of Arkansas. Clinton ran a second time with former Tennessee Senator Al Gore as vice president, and Dole ran with former New York Congressman Jack Kemp.https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1996&fips=46&f=1&off=0&elect=0 1996 Presidential General Election Results – South Dakota Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 2013-07-21 South Dakota weighed in for this election as 12 points more Republican than the national average. The presidential election of 1996 was a very multi-partisan election for South Dakota, with more than ten percent of the electorate voting for third-party candidates. Most counties turned out in this election for Dole. The major exceptions were the overwhelmingly Democratic majority-Native American counties of Shannon, Todd, Buffalo and Dewey, and a number of East River counties near Minnesota including Brown County, and Sioux Falls's Minnehaha County, which gave mostly pluralities to Clinton. In his second bid for the presidency, Ross Perot led the newly reformed Reform Party to gain over nine percent of the votes in South Dakota, and to pull in support nationally as the most popular third-party candidate to run for United States Presidency in recent times. 2024 11 As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last election in which South Dakota was seriously contested, as well as the last time Beadle County, Bon Homme County, Brule County, Charles Mix County, Deuel County, Grant County, Jerauld County, Kingsbury County, Sanborn County, and Union County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016 Results 1996 United States presidential election in South DakotaPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Republican Bob Dole 150,543 46.49% 3 Democratic Bill Clinton (incumbent) 139,333 43.03% 0 Independent Ross Perot 31,250 9.65% 0 Libertarian Harry Browne 1,472 0.45% 0 Independent Howard Phillips 912 0.28% 0 Independent John Hagelin 316 0.10% 0 Totals 323,826 100.00% 3 Voter Turnout (Voting age/Registered) Results by county CountyOur Campaigns; SD US Presidential Election Race, November 05, 1996Bob DoleRepublicanBill ClintonDemocraticRoss PerotIndependentVarious candidatesOther partiesMarginTotal votescast#%#%#%#%#% Aurora 709 47.05% 664 44.06% 119 7.90% 15 1.00% 45 2.99% 1,507 Beadle 3,670 42.77% 3,984 46.43% 842 9.81% 85 0.99% -314 -3.66% 8,581 Bennett 539 47.07% 507 44.28% 93 8.12% 6 0.52% 32 2.79% 1,145 Bon Homme 1,428 41.56% 1,569 45.66% 391 11.38% 48 1.40% -141 -4.10% 3,436 Brookings 5,112 45.35% 5,105 45.29% 979 8.69% 76 0.67% 7 0.06% 11,272 Brown 6,801 41.35% 7,913 48.11% 1,622 9.86% 111 0.67% -1,112 -6.76% 16,447 Brule 981 40.81% 1,091 45.38% 281 11.69% 51 2.12% -110 -4.57% 2,404 Buffalo 134 20.94% 465 72.66% 35 5.47% 6 0.94% -331 -51.72% 640 Butte 1,947 53.24% 1,132 30.95% 541 14.79% 37 1.01% 815 22.29% 3,657 Campbell 623 64.23% 202 20.82% 140 14.43% 5 0.52% 421 43.41% 970 Charles Mix 1,711 42.40% 1,913 47.41% 390 9.67% 21 0.52% -202 -5.01% 4,035 Clark 998 44.51% 956 42.64% 272 12.13% 16 0.71% 42 1.87% 2,242 Clay 2,008 36.04% 2,980 53.48% 505 9.06% 79 1.42% -972 -17.44% 5,572 Codington 4,995 45.18% 4,722 42.71% 1,239 11.21% 99 0.90% 273 2.47% 11,055 Corson 533 41.00% 539 41.46% 216 16.62% 12 0.92% -6 -0.46% 1,300 Custer 1,740 51.83% 1,122 33.42% 418 12.45% 77 2.29% 618 18.41% 3,357 Davison 3,371 44.78% 3,364 44.69% 737 9.79% 56 0.74% 7 0.09% 7,528 Day 1,282 36.29% 1,840 52.08% 395 11.18% 16 0.45% -558 -15.79% 3,533 Deuel 955 40.66% 1,090 46.40% 275 11.71% 29 1.23% -135 -5.74% 2,349 Dewey 657 33.20% 1,114 56.29% 195 9.85% 13 0.66% -457 -23.09% 1,979 Douglas 1,210 63.38% 524 27.45% 161 8.43% 14 0.73% 686 35.93% 1,909 Edmunds 1,055 45.67% 973 42.12% 263 11.39% 19 0.82% 82 3.55% 2,310 Fall River 1,636 47.31% 1,357 39.24% 417 12.06% 48 1.39% 279 8.07% 3,458 Faulk 726 52.27% 493 35.49% 165 11.88% 5 0.36% 233 16.78% 1,389 Grant 1,782 43.64% 1,805 44.21% 471 11.54% 25 0.61% -23 -0.57% 4,083 Gregory 1,208 49.65% 923 37.94% 286 11.76% 16 0.66% 285 11.71% 2,433 Haakon 887 68.81% 284 22.03% 110 8.53% 8 0.62% 603 46.78% 1,289 Hamlin 1,352 49.02% 1,101 39.92% 285 10.33% 20 0.73% 251 9.10% 2,758 Hand 1,187 52.34% 803 35.41% 250 11.02% 28 1.23% 384 16.93% 2,268 Hanson 801 52.22% 541 35.27% 170 11.08% 22 1.43% 260 16.95% 1,534 Harding 537 68.41% 151 19.24% 90 11.46% 7 0.89% 386 49.17% 785 Hughes 4,469 56.80% 2,788 35.43% 531 6.75% 80 1.02% 1,681 21.37% 7,868 Hutchinson 2,177 55.66% 1,285 32.86% 409 10.46% 40 1.02% 892 22.80% 3,911 Hyde 493 54.54% 309 34.18% 95 10.51% 7 0.77% 184 20.36% 904 Jackson 646 55.26% 423 36.18% 88 7.53% 12 1.03% 223 19.08% 1,169 Jerauld 530 38.86% 656 48.09% 151 11.07% 27 1.98% -126 -9.23% 1,364 Jones 463 63.51% 184 25.24% 75 10.29% 7 0.96% 279 38.27% 729 Kingsbury 1,297 43.22% 1,357 45.22% 320 10.66% 27 0.90% -60 -2.00% 3,001 Lake 1,966 38.48% 2,526 49.44% 593 11.61% 24 0.47% -560 -10.96% 5,109 Lawrence 4,430 46.92% 3,568 37.79% 1,308 13.85% 136 1.44% 862 9.13% 9,442 Lincoln 4,201 48.92% 3,643 42.42% 682 7.94% 61 0.71% 558 6.50% 8,587 Lyman 726 47.67% 646 42.42% 130 8.54% 21 1.38% 80 5.25% 1,523 Marshall 861 38.33% 1,185 52.76% 189 8.41% 11 0.49% -324 -14.43% 2,246 McCook 1,292 47.45% 1,166 42.82% 245 9.00% 20 0.73% 126 4.63% 2,723 McPherson 1,080 62.25% 463 26.69% 182 10.49% 10 0.58% 617 35.56% 1,735 Meade 4,984 54.32% 2,960 32.26% 1,133 12.35% 99 1.08% 2,024 22.06% 9,176 Mellette 417 52.26% 302 37.84% 67 8.40% 12 1.50% 115 14.42% 798 Miner 571 38.35% 739 49.63% 170 11.42% 9 0.60% -168 -11.28% 1,489 Minnehaha 27,432 44.24% 29,790 48.05% 4,425 7.14% 357 0.58% -2,358 -3.81% 62,004 Moody 1,024 37.01% 1,443 52.15% 284 10.26% 16 0.58% -419 -15.14% 2,767 Pennington 19,293 54.32% 12,784 36.00% 3,149 8.87% 290 0.82% 6,509 18.32% 35,516 Perkins 983 58.10% 460 27.19% 225 13.30% 24 1.42% 523 30.91% 1,692 Potter 979 57.52% 534 31.37% 181 10.63% 8 0.47% 445 26.15% 1,702 Roberts 1,646 37.99% 2,186 50.45% 474 10.94% 27 0.62% -540 -12.46% 4,333 Sanborn 630 43.81% 647 44.99% 151 10.50% 10 0.70% -17 -1.18% 1,438 Shannon 253 11.08% 1,926 84.33% 87 3.81% 18 0.79% -1,673 -73.25% 2,284 Spink 1,651 45.00% 1,636 44.59% 360 9.81% 22 0.60% 15 0.41% 3,669 Stanley 795 57.53% 454 32.85% 121 8.76% 12 0.87% 341 24.68% 1,382 Sully 592 57.76% 321 31.32% 106 10.34% 6 0.59% 271 26.44% 1,025 Todd 482 24.21% 1,380 69.31% 108 5.42% 21 1.05% -898 -45.10% 1,991 Tripp 1,680 53.64% 1,088 34.74% 337 10.76% 27 0.86% 592 18.90% 3,132 Turner 1,970 48.63% 1,682 41.52% 385 9.50% 14 0.35% 288 7.11% 4,051 Union 2,234 42.90% 2,378 45.67% 555 10.66% 40 0.77% -144 -2.77% 5,207 Walworth 1,461 52.38% 939 33.67% 366 13.12% 23 0.82% 522 18.71% 2,789 Yankton 3,885 44.02% 3,775 42.77% 1,073 12.16% 93 1.05% 110 1.25% 8,826 Ziebach 375 40.32% 483 51.94% 62 6.67% 10 1.08% -108 -11.62% 930Totals150,54346.49%139,33343.03%31,2509.65%2,7000.83%11,2103.46%323,826 Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican Aurora Davison Hanson Spink Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Corson Grant Ziebach See also Presidency of Bill Clinton United States presidential elections in South Dakota Notes References South Dakota 1996 Category:1996 South Dakota elections