1988 United States presidential election in South Dakota

none June 2025 September 2023 1988 United States presidential election 1988 United States presidential election in South Dakota South Dakota 1963 presidential no 1984 United States presidential election in South Dakota 1984 1992 United States presidential election in South Dakota 1992 November 8, 1988 x200px File:VP George Bush crop.jpg George H. W. Bush Republican Party (United States) Texas Dan Quayle 3 165,415 52.85% File:Dukakis campaign portrait 3x4.jpg Michael Dukakis Democratic Party (United States) Massachusetts Lloyd Bentsen 0 145,560 46.51% 1988 United States presidential election in South Dakota results map by county.svg 300px County results Bush #f2b3be 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% Dukakis #b9d7ff 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #0645B4 80–90% President Ronald Reagan Republican Party (United States) George H. W. Bush Republican Party (United States) The 1988 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 8, 1988. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1988 United States presidential election. Voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. South Dakota was won by incumbent United States Vice President George H. W. Bush of Texas, who was running against Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. Bush ran with Indiana Senator Dan Quayle as Vice President, and Dukakis ran with Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen. South Dakota weighed in for this election as 1.5% more Democratic than the national average.Counting the Votes; South Dakota This is the last of only four elections since statehood when South Dakota has voted more Democratic than the national average,The others are 1896 during Bryan's "Cross of Gold" campaign, 1932 during the Dust Bowl, and 1972 when favorite son George McGovern was the Democratic nominee. an anomaly probably caused by the persistent crisis in the United States' farming sector during the decade. Bush won the election in South Dakota with a 6-point margin. The presidential election of 1988 was a very partisan election for South Dakota, with more than 99 percent of the electorate voting for either the Republican or the Democratic parties, and only five candidates appearing on the ballot.https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1988&fips=46&f=1&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 1988 Presidential General Election Results – South Dakota Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 2013-07-21 While most counties turned out in this election for Bush, the highly populated centers of Brown County and Sioux Falls's Minnehaha County, voted in majority for Dukakis. Results 1988 United States presidential election in South DakotaPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Republican George H. W. Bush 165,415 52.85% 3 Democratic Michael Dukakis 145,560 46.51% 0 Libertarian Ron Paul 1,060 0.34% 0 New Alliance Party Lenora Fulani 730 0.23% 0 Socialist Workers Party James Warren 226 0.07% 0 Totals 312,991 100.0% 3 Results by county CountyOur Campaigns; SD US Presidential Election Race, November 08, 1988George H. W. BushRepublicanMichael DukakisDemocraticRon PaulLibertarianLenora FulaniNew AllianceJames WarrenSocialist WorkersMarginTotal votes cast#%#%#%#%#%#% Aurora 856 46.17% 987 53.24% 5 0.27% 5 0.27% 1 0.05% -131 -7.07% 1,854 Beadle 4,611 50.23% 4,523 49.27% 29 0.32% 15 0.16% 2 0.02% 88 0.96% 9,180 Bennett 663 52.54% 579 45.88% 18 1.43% 1 0.08% 1 0.08% 84 6.66% 1,262 Bon Homme 1,826 53.44% 1,574 46.06% 6 0.18% 9 0.26% 2 0.06% 252 7.38% 3,417 Brookings 5,394 52.34% 4,860 47.16% 20 0.19% 29 0.28% 2 0.02% 534 5.18% 10,305 Brown 8,537 49.34% 8,673 50.13% 42 0.24% 39 0.23% 11 0.06% -136 -0.79% 17,302 Brule 971 49.19% 991 50.20% 9 0.46% 2 0.10% 1 0.05% -20 -1.01% 1,974 Buffalo 151 30.82% 334 68.16% 2 0.41% 1 0.20% 2 0.41% -183 -37.34% 490 Butte 2,291 63.96% 1,256 35.06% 19 0.53% 15 0.42% 1 0.03% 1,035 28.90% 3,582 Campbell 909 72.60% 334 26.68% 8 0.64% 1 0.08% 0 0.00% 575 45.92% 1,252 Charles Mix 1,966 46.99% 2,205 52.70% 5 0.12% 4 0.10% 4 0.10% -239 -5.71% 4,184 Clark 1,247 51.44% 1,164 48.02% 3 0.12% 9 0.37% 1 0.04% 83 3.42% 2,424 Clay 2,307 44.37% 2,859 54.98% 18 0.35% 7 0.13% 9 0.17% -552 -10.61% 5,200 Codington 5,050 51.99% 4,570 47.05% 34 0.35% 46 0.47% 14 0.14% 480 4.94% 9,714 Corson 710 49.03% 722 49.86% 11 0.76% 4 0.28% 1 0.07% -12 -0.83% 1,448 Custer 1,806 59.49% 1,180 38.87% 34 1.12% 9 0.30% 7 0.23% 626 20.62% 3,036 Davison 4,024 51.68% 3,705 47.59% 20 0.26% 30 0.39% 7 0.09% 319 4.09% 7,786 Day 1,616 42.82% 2,137 56.62% 19 0.50% 2 0.05% 0 0.00% -521 -13.80% 3,774 Deuel 1,251 49.49% 1,246 49.29% 17 0.67% 12 0.47% 2 0.08% 5 0.20% 2,528 Dewey 765 42.76% 1,007 56.29% 14 0.78% 1 0.06% 2 0.11% -242 -13.53% 1,789 Douglas 1,438 67.23% 695 32.49% 3 0.14% 3 0.14% 0 0.00% 743 34.74% 2,139 Edmunds 1,327 51.06% 1,259 48.44% 7 0.27% 4 0.15% 2 0.08% 68 2.62% 2,599 Fall River 2,002 58.59% 1,380 40.39% 25 0.73% 7 0.20% 3 0.09% 622 18.20% 3,417 Faulk 842 53.94% 714 45.74% 2 0.13% 3 0.19% 0 0.00% 128 8.20% 1,561 Grant 2,148 51.49% 1,988 47.65% 19 0.46% 15 0.36% 2 0.05% 160 3.84% 4,172 Gregory 1,566 57.53% 1,138 41.81% 7 0.26% 9 0.33% 2 0.07% 428 15.72% 2,722 Haakon 958 70.91% 379 28.05% 9 0.67% 5 0.37% 0 0.00% 579 42.86% 1,351 Hamlin 1,380 52.06% 1,258 47.45% 9 0.34% 4 0.15% 0 0.00% 122 4.61% 2,651 Hand 1,461 56.67% 1,101 42.71% 8 0.31% 8 0.31% 0 0.00% 360 13.96% 2,578 Hanson 786 50.00% 776 49.36% 8 0.51% 2 0.13% 0 0.00% 10 0.64% 1,572 Harding 633 70.33% 259 28.78% 5 0.56% 3 0.33% 0 0.00% 374 41.55% 900 Hughes 4,545 61.07% 2,853 38.34% 24 0.32% 15 0.20% 5 0.07% 1,692 22.73% 7,442 Hutchinson 2,700 62.56% 1,594 36.93% 9 0.21% 13 0.30% 0 0.00% 1,106 25.63% 4,316 Hyde 546 53.58% 436 42.79% 29 2.85% 5 0.49% 3 0.29% 110 10.79% 1,019 Jackson 671 58.81% 450 39.44% 14 1.23% 2 0.18% 4 0.35% 221 19.37% 1,141 Jerauld 777 50.65% 751 48.96% 2 0.13% 4 0.26% 0 0.00% 26 1.69% 1,534 Jones 521 66.28% 261 33.21% 3 0.38% 1 0.13% 0 0.00% 260 33.07% 786 Kingsbury 1,592 51.57% 1,472 47.68% 11 0.36% 7 0.23% 5 0.16% 120 3.89% 3,087 Lake 2,439 47.62% 2,663 51.99% 8 0.16% 9 0.18% 3 0.06% -224 -4.37% 5,122 Lawrence 5,570 59.39% 3,705 39.50% 66 0.70% 32 0.34% 6 0.06% 1,865 19.89% 9,379 Lincoln 3,537 52.35% 3,190 47.21% 15 0.22% 9 0.13% 6 0.09% 347 5.14% 6,757 Lyman 843 56.96% 631 42.64% 3 0.20% 3 0.20% 0 0.00% 212 14.32% 1,480 Marshall 1,142 45.23% 1,372 54.34% 7 0.28% 4 0.16% 0 0.00% -230 -9.11% 2,525 McCook 1,501 50.00% 1,492 49.70% 1 0.03% 6 0.20% 2 0.07% 9 0.30% 3,002 McPherson 1,358 70.14% 571 29.49% 4 0.21% 2 0.10% 1 0.05% 787 40.65% 1,936 Meade 5,189 61.24% 3,212 37.91% 43 0.51% 27 0.32% 2 0.02% 1,977 23.33% 8,473 Mellette 460 53.99% 385 45.19% 6 0.70% 1 0.12% 0 0.00% 75 8.80% 852 Miner 795 45.30% 955 54.42% 4 0.23% 1 0.06% 0 0.00% -160 -9.12% 1,755 Minnehaha 26,765 47.71% 29,135 51.94% 82 0.15% 84 0.15% 29 0.05% -2,370 -4.23% 56,095 Moody 1,161 40.19% 1,715 59.36% 4 0.14% 7 0.24% 2 0.07% -554 -19.17% 2,889 Pennington 19,510 61.44% 12,068 38.00% 90 0.28% 71 0.22% 18 0.06% 7,442 23.44% 31,757 Perkins 1,326 60.36% 851 38.73% 17 0.77% 3 0.14% 0 0.00% 475 21.63% 2,197 Potter 1,175 62.07% 701 37.03% 10 0.53% 5 0.26% 2 0.11% 474 25.04% 1,893 Roberts 2,012 46.67% 2,267 52.59% 20 0.46% 6 0.14% 6 0.14% -255 -5.92% 4,311 Sanborn 815 51.10% 770 48.28% 4 0.25% 6 0.38% 0 0.00% 45 2.82% 1,595 Shannon 256 17.31% 1,206 81.54% 7 0.47% 4 0.27% 6 0.41% -950 -64.23% 1,479 Spink 1,969 48.47% 2,071 50.98% 9 0.22% 8 0.20% 5 0.12% -102 -2.51% 4,062 Stanley 698 57.26% 511 41.92% 8 0.66% 2 0.16% 0 0.00% 187 15.34% 1,219 Sully 571 56.76% 393 39.07% 41 4.08% 1 0.10% 0 0.00% 178 17.69% 1,006 Todd 535 31.92% 1,117 66.65% 5 0.30% 9 0.54% 10 0.60% -582 -34.73% 1,676 Tripp 2,113 62.96% 1,219 36.32% 13 0.39% 6 0.18% 5 0.15% 894 26.64% 3,356 Turner 2,436 57.47% 1,780 41.99% 11 0.26% 8 0.19% 4 0.09% 656 15.48% 4,239 Union 1,907 41.91% 2,612 57.41% 11 0.24% 14 0.31% 6 0.13% -705 -15.50% 4,550 Walworth 1,940 63.40% 1,094 35.75% 15 0.49% 9 0.29% 2 0.07% 846 27.65% 3,060 Yankton 4,186 52.05% 3,777 46.96% 26 0.32% 41 0.51% 13 0.16% 409 5.09% 8,043 Ziebach 362 45.53% 427 53.71% 3 0.38% 2 0.25% 1 0.13% -65 -8.18% 795Totals165,41552.85%145,56046.51%1,0600.34%7300.23%2260.07%19,8556.34%312,991 Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic 20em Aurora Brown Brule Buffalo Charles Mix Clay Corson Day Dewey Lake Marshall Miner Minnehaha Moody Roberts Spink Ziebach Union See also Presidency of George H. W. Bush United States presidential elections in South Dakota Notes References South Dakota 1988 Category:1988 South Dakota elections