The 2024 South Dakota House of Representatives elections were held on November 5, 2024, to elect all 70 seats in the South Dakota House of Representatives. The elections coincided with the presidential, U.S. House, and State Senate elections. The primary elections were held on June 4, 2024.
Partisan background
In the 2020 presidential election, Republican Donald Trump won 33 of South Dakota's state House of Representatives districts and Democrat Joe Biden won 4 districts. Going into the 2024 South Dakota House of Representatives election, Republicans held one House of Representatives seat in a district that voted for Biden in 2020: District 27, a rural district with a majority Native American population (Biden +8%). Conversely, Democrats held one House seat in a district that voted for Trump in 2020: District 28A, another rural district also with a majority Native American population (Trump +3%).
Retirements
Democrats
- District 15: Linda Duba retired.
- District 28A: Oren Lesmeister was term-limited.
Republicans
- District 1: Joe Donnell retired.
- District 3: Carl E. Perry retired to run for State Senate.
- District 4: Fred Deutsch retired to run for State Senate.
- District 4: Stephanie Sauder retired to run for State Senate.
- District 5: Hugh Bartels was term-limited.
- District 6: Ernie Otten retired to run for State Senate.
- District 8: John Mills was term-limited.
- District 9: Kenneth Teunissen retired.
- District 11: Chris Karr was term-limited (running for State Senate).
- District 13: Sue Peterson was term-limited (running for State Senate).
- District 16: Kevin D. Jensen was term-limited (running for State Senate).
- District 20: Lance Koth retired.
- District 20: Ben Krohmer retired.
- District 21: Rocky Blare retired.
- District 22: Roger D. Chase was term-limited.
- District 22: Lynn Schneider retired.
- District 25: Randy Gross retired.
- District 28B: Neil Pinnow retired.
- District 29: Kirk Chaffee retired to run for State Senate.
- District 30: Dennis Krull retired.
- District 32: Kristin Conzet retired.
Incumbents defeated
In primary elections
Six incumbent representatives, all Republicans, were defeated in the June 4 primary elections.
Republicans
- District 1: Tamara St. John lost renomination to Logan Manhart and Christopher Reder.
- District 5: Byron Callies lost renomination to Josephine Garcia and Matt Roby.
- District 14: Tyler Tordsen lost renomination to Tony Kayser and Taylor Rehfeldt.
- District 23: James Wangsness lost renomination to Spencer Gosch and Scott Moore.
- District 29: Gary Cammack lost renomination to Terri Jorgenson and Kathy Rice.
- District 34: Becky Drury lost renomination to Heather Baxter and Mike Derby.
In general election
One incumbent representative, a Democrat, was defeated in the November 5 general election.
Democrat
- District 10: Kameron Nelson lost reelection to Bobbi Andera.
Predictions
Results by district
District 1
District 2
District 3
District 4
District 5
District 6
District 7
District 8
District 9
District 10
District 11
District 12
District 13
District 14
District 15
Republican Joni Tschetter requested a recount which confirmed the narrow win of Erik Muckey by 9 votes.
District 16
District 17
District 18
District 19
District 20
District 21
District 22
District 23
District 24
District 25
District 26A
District 26B
District 27
District 28A
District 28B
District 29
District 30
District 31
District 32
District 33
District 34
District 35
See also
References