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1972 United States presidential election in South Dakota

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Field	Value
election_name	1972 United States presidential election in South Dakota
country	South Dakota
flag_year	1963
type	presidential
ongoing	no
previous_election	1968 United States presidential election in South Dakota
previous_year	1968
next_election	1976 United States presidential election in South Dakota
next_year	1976
election_date	November 7, 1972
image_size	x200px
image1	Richard Nixon presidential portrait (1).jpg
nominee1	Richard Nixon
party1	Republican Party (United States)
home_state1	California
running_mate1	Spiro Agnew
electoral_vote1	4
popular_vote1	166,476
percentage1	54.15%
image2	George McGovern (D-SD) (3x4-1).jpg
nominee2	George McGovern
party2	Democratic Party (United States)
home_state2	South Dakota
running_mate2	Sargent Shriver
electoral_vote2	0
popular_vote2	139,945
percentage2	45.52%
map_image	South Dakota Presidential Election Results 1972.svg
map_size	300px
map_caption	County results
title	President
before_election	Richard Nixon
before_party	Republican Party (United States)
after_election	Richard Nixon
after_party	Republican Party (United States)

Main article: 1972 United States presidential election

Nixon McGovern

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.

Although 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, 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. South Dakota was the only state to swing leftward from 1968 to 1972. 8 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. South Dakota was McGovern's fourth strongest state after Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Minnesota.

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 Richard Nixon lost New York, where he then lived). 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, and the state is tied with eight others for the longest ongoing Republican streak in presidential elections.

Results

Results by county

County	Richard Nixon
Republican	George McGovern
Democratic	Linda Jenness
Independent	Margin	Total votes cast	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Totals	166,476	54.15%	139,945	45.52%	994	0.32%	26,531	8.63%	307,415
	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%		870

Notes

References

"1972 Presidential Election Statistics".
Our Campaigns; [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=2409 SD US Presidential Election Race, November 07, 1972]

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