1972 United States presidential election in South Dakota

none June 2025 September 2023 1972 United States presidential election 1972 United States presidential election in South Dakota South Dakota 1963 presidential no 1968 United States presidential election in South Dakota 1968 1976 United States presidential election in South Dakota 1976 November 7, 1972 x200px Richard Nixon presidential portrait (1).jpg Richard Nixon Republican Party (United States) California Spiro Agnew 4 166,476 54.15% George McGovern (D-SD) (3x4-1).jpg George McGovern Democratic Party (United States) South Dakota Sargent Shriver 0 139,945 45.52% 1972 United States presidential election in South Dakota results map by county.svg 300px County results Nixon #f2b3be 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% McGovern #b9d7ff 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% #1666cb 70–80% President Richard Nixon Republican Party (United States) Richard Nixon Republican Party (United States) The 1972 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. South Dakota was the home state of George McGovern, the Democratic Party nominee in the 1972 United States presidential election. McGovern, a member of the liberal wing of his party in a relatively conservative state, was at the time of the election a popular two-term Senator, having won re-election in 1968 with 56.8% of the vote. However, he lost the presidential vote here to incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon. McGovern's loss was heavily influenced by voter opposition to his perceived far-left ideology. Eight years later, McGovern would lose South Dakota again by roughly double the margin he lost to Nixon by. Despite his loss in South Dakota, it was the only state that voted more Democratic in 1972 than it had in 1968. Overall, South Dakota was McGovern's fourth-strongest state after Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Minnesota.https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1972&f=0&off=0&elect=0 1972 Presidential Election Statistics 2019-05-26 McGovern's loss of South Dakota made him the second candidate in four years to lose his state of birth (in 1968, Hubert Humphrey also lost South Dakota, where he was born) and residence (also in 1968, Nixon lost New York, where he lived at the time). McGovern remained the last candidate to lose his state of residence until 2000, when Al Gore lost his home state of Tennessee. Mitt Romney would also lose his then-home state of Massachusetts in 2012 to Barack Obama, and Donald Trump would lose his then-home state of New York in 2016, to Hillary Clinton (who also lived in New York). Bon Homme, Deuel, Davison, Clay, Edmunds, Hanson, McCook, Moody, Sanborn, and Union counties all flipped to McGovern, twice the amount he flipped elsewhere nationwide. South Dakota voted in this election as nearly 15 points more Democratic than the nation at-large, a significant historical anomaly considering that the state normally leans very heavily Republican. In fact, this election marked one of only four times since statehood that South Dakota voted to the left of the nation,The others being 1896, 1932, and 1988. and the state is tied with eight others for the longest ongoing Republican streak in presidential elections. Results Richard Nixon (incumbent) Republican California 166,476 54.15% 4 Spiro Agnew (incumbent) Maryland George McGovern Democratic South Dakota 139,945 45.52% 0 Sargent Shriver Maryland Linda Jenness IndependentJenness was the nominee of the Socialist Workers Party, but appeared on the ballot in South Dakota as an independent candidate. Georgia 994 0.34% 0 Andrew Pulley Illinois 307,415 100.00% 538 270 Results by county CountyOur Campaigns; SD US Presidential Election Race, November 07, 1972Richard NixonRepublicanGeorge McGovernDemocraticLinda JennessIndependentMarginTotal votes cast#%#%#%#% Aurora 1,075 45.96% 1,257 53.74% 7 0.30% -182 -7.78% 2,339 Beadle 5,922 57.81% 4,297 41.95% 25 0.24% 1,625 15.86% 10,244 Bennett 808 62.83% 476 37.01% 2 0.16% 332 25.82% 1,286 Bon Homme 2,116 47.10% 2,368 52.70% 9 0.20% -252 -5.60% 4,493 Brookings 5,182 52.26% 4,701 47.41% 33 0.33% 481 4.85% 9,916 Brown 8,134 49.44% 8,216 49.94% 101 0.61% -82 -0.50% 16,451 Brule 1,421 45.88% 1,665 53.76% 11 0.36% -244 -7.88% 3,097 Buffalo 221 44.47% 275 55.33% 1 0.20% -54 -10.86% 497 Butte 2,452 68.82% 1,085 30.45% 26 0.73% 1,367 38.37% 3,563 Campbell 1,169 76.06% 361 23.49% 7 0.46% 808 52.57% 1,537 Charles Mix 2,020 42.79% 2,691 57.00% 10 0.21% -671 -14.21% 4,721 Clark 1,617 54.59% 1,336 45.10% 9 0.30% 281 9.49% 2,962 Clay 2,518 47.05% 2,821 52.71% 13 0.24% -303 -5.66% 5,352 Codington 4,936 51.61% 4,601 48.11% 27 0.28% 335 3.50% 9,564 Corson 975 58.28% 689 41.18% 9 0.54% 286 17.10% 1,673 Custer 1,476 64.48% 798 34.86% 15 0.66% 678 29.62% 2,289 Davison 3,796 44.50% 4,710 55.21% 25 0.29% -914 -10.71% 8,531 Day 1,971 41.95% 2,719 57.86% 9 0.19% -748 -15.91% 4,699 Deuel 1,357 49.60% 1,370 50.07% 9 0.33% -13 -0.47% 2,736 Dewey 1,008 58.88% 699 40.83% 5 0.29% 309 18.05% 1,712 Douglas 1,434 61.68% 887 38.15% 4 0.17% 547 23.53% 2,325 Edmunds 1,567 48.73% 1,646 51.18% 3 0.09% -79 -2.45% 3,216 Fall River 2,374 67.89% 1,107 31.66% 16 0.46% 1,267 36.23% 3,497 Faulk 1,004 50.07% 986 49.18% 15 0.75% 18 0.89% 2,005 Grant 2,247 50.04% 2,231 49.69% 12 0.27% 16 0.35% 4,490 Gregory 1,670 51.59% 1,555 48.04% 12 0.37% 115 3.55% 3,237 Haakon 1,021 73.14% 366 26.22% 9 0.64% 655 46.92% 1,396 Hamlin 1,693 56.85% 1,276 42.85% 9 0.30% 417 14.00% 2,978 Hand 1,806 57.90% 1,307 41.90% 6 0.19% 499 16.00% 3,119 Hanson 876 45.96% 1,022 53.62% 8 0.42% -146 -7.66% 1,906 Harding 637 71.57% 253 28.43% 0 0.00% 384 43.14% 890 Hughes 4,231 67.35% 2,037 32.43% 14 0.22% 2,194 34.92% 6,282 Hutchinson 3,092 57.82% 2,248 42.03% 8 0.15% 844 15.79% 5,348 Hyde 789 59.50% 533 40.20% 4 0.30% 256 19.30% 1,326 Jackson 581 68.68% 261 30.85% 4 0.47% 320 37.83% 846 Jerauld 988 54.29% 829 45.55% 3 0.16% 159 8.74% 1,820 Jones 642 64.39% 346 34.70% 9 0.90% 296 29.69% 997 Kingsbury 2,320 58.62% 1,632 41.23% 6 0.15% 688 17.39% 3,958 Lake 2,919 50.14% 2,886 49.57% 17 0.29% 33 0.57% 5,822 Lawrence 4,795 65.22% 2,533 34.45% 24 0.33% 2,262 30.77% 7,352 Lincoln 3,201 54.92% 2,617 44.90% 10 0.17% 584 10.02% 5,828 Lyman 1,166 59.98% 774 39.81% 4 0.21% 392 20.17% 1,944 Marshall 1,500 47.66% 1,646 52.30% 1 0.03% -146 -4.64% 3,147 McCook 1,963 49.53% 1,993 50.29% 7 0.18% -30 -0.76% 3,963 McPherson 1,950 76.92% 579 22.84% 6 0.24% 1,371 54.08% 2,535 Meade 3,416 67.24% 1,633 32.15% 31 0.61% 1,783 35.09% 5,080 Mellette 637 59.20% 433 40.24% 6 0.56% 204 18.96% 1,076 Miner 1,059 44.03% 1,337 55.59% 9 0.37% -278 -11.56% 2,405 Minnehaha 22,447 49.90% 22,386 49.76% 155 0.34% 61 0.14% 44,988 Moody 1,648 46.37% 1,895 53.32% 11 0.31% -247 -6.95% 3,554 Pennington 13,654 61.16% 8,592 38.48% 80 0.36% 5,062 22.68% 22,326 Perkins 1,691 65.09% 900 34.64% 7 0.27% 791 30.45% 2,598 Potter 1,389 61.65% 858 38.08% 6 0.27% 531 23.57% 2,253 Roberts 2,187 42.29% 2,976 57.54% 9 0.17% -789 -15.25% 5,172 Sanborn 1,064 49.60% 1,074 50.07% 7 0.33% -10 -0.47% 2,145 Shannon 356 22.10% 1,246 77.34% 9 0.56% -890 -55.24% 1,611 Spink 2,547 52.19% 2,321 47.56% 12 0.25% 226 4.63% 4,880 Stanley 779 60.95% 492 38.50% 7 0.55% 287 22.45% 1,278 Sully 773 64.90% 414 34.76% 4 0.34% 359 30.14% 1,191 Todd 806 46.78% 907 52.64% 10 0.58% -101 -5.86% 1,723 Tripp 2,592 62.73% 1,538 37.22% 2 0.05% 1,054 25.51% 4,132 Turner 3,007 60.02% 1,993 39.78% 10 0.20% 1,014 20.24% 5,010 Union 2,271 46.90% 2,554 52.75% 17 0.35% -283 -5.85% 4,842 Walworth 2,416 65.10% 1,287 34.68% 8 0.22% 1,129 30.42% 3,711 Washabaugh 245 53.73% 211 46.27% 0 0.00% 34 7.46% 456 Yankton 4,366 53.08% 3,835 46.63% 24 0.29% 531 6.45% 8,225 Ziebach 486 55.86% 378 43.45% 6 0.69% 108 12.41% 870Totals166,47654.15%139,94545.52%9940.32%26,5318.63%307,415 See also United States presidential elections in South Dakota Notes References 1972 South Dakota Category:1972 South Dakota elections