South Dakota’s election results refuse to fit in one partisan box.
Republicans swept the statewide races. Democrats gained four seats in the Legislature, their first net gain in a general election since 2008. Much of that gain came in and around Sioux Falls, where several Republican legislative seats changed hands.
South Dakotans also approved, by a large margin, more explicit language in the state constitution barring noncitizens from voting. Amendment J won 61.5 percent of the vote, with nearly 184,000 South Dakotans voting yes and a victory margin of more than 68,000 votes.
