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1986 general · November 4, 1986

1986 South Dakota election results

Every race on South Dakota's ballot in the 1986 general election: winners, margins and seats that changed party.

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Races73
Changed party5
Unopposed26%19 races
Incumbents defeated7

U.S. Senate

D 1 · 1 changed party

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
South DakotaThomas Daschle (D)3.2Flipped

Governors

R 1

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
South DakotaGeorge S. Mickelson (R)3.6

U.S. House

D 1

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
SD-ALTim Johnson (D)18.4

South Dakota State Senate

D 12 · R 23 · 4 changed party

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
LD-1Paul Symens (D)34.6
LD-2Frances S. Lamont (R)6.9
LD-3David S. Lausten (D)39.0
LD-4Dorothy M. Kellogg (D)6.1FlippedIncumbent lost
LD-5Mary McClure (R)28.2
LD-6Harold Halverson (R)15.0
LD-7Walter C. Conahan (R)Unopposed
LD-8Henry A. Poppen (R)24.0
LD-9Walt Bones Jr. (R)Unopposed
LD-10Wallace B. Hanson (R)Unopposed
LD-11Sheldon R. Songstad (R)5.2
LD-12Keith Paisley (R)Unopposed
LD-13Gary W. Hanson (R)2.8
LD-14Randy Austad (R)6.0
LD-15Karen Muenster (D)Unopposed
LD-16Roger McKellips (D)19.7
LD-17Roland Chicoine (D)29.2
LD-18Elmer Bietz (R)Unopposed
LD-19Carrol Allen (D)8.8FlippedIncumbent lost
LD-20Leonard E. Andera (D)Unopposed
LD-21George Shanard (R)29.9
LD-22Clyde E. Streff (R)20.8Flipped
LD-23Leland Kleinsasser (R)8.1
LD-24G. Homer Harding (R)Unopposed
LD-25James Stoick (D)UnopposedFlipped
LD-26Bruce J. Walker (R)Unopposed
LD-27Dick Waddell (D)8.1
LD-28Thomas Shortbull (D)Unopposed
LD-29Doris Miner (D)40.8
LD-30James W. Emery (R)Unopposed
LD-31James B. Dunn (R)20.3
LD-32Lyndell Petersen (R)75.6
LD-33Ed Glassgow (R)Unopposed
LD-34Michael G. Diedrich (R)Unopposed
LD-35John L. Brown (R)Unopposed

South Dakota House of Representatives

D 22 · R 48

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
LD-1Neil Gleason · Kent E. Frerichs (D)10.8
LD-2Steve Cutler · Alfred A. Waltman (REP)2.8
LD-3Royal J. Wood · Perry Hier (R)1.3
LD-4Doris Kumm · Dale Howlett (REP)2.8
LD-5Robert N. Duxbury · Jack Jones (DEM)9.1
LD-6Robert Weber · T. Loren Christianson (R)5.4
LD-7Mary K. Wagner · Dean M. Krogman (R)9.0
LD-8Joyce Hodges · Dean Anderson (R)1.3
LD-9Juel Johnson · Sidney R. Knutson (R)3.2
LD-10Andrew Wiese · Jerome B. Lammers (DEM)10.3
LD-11Pam Nelson · Hemming Oien (DEM)0.9
LD-12Debra Anderson · David R. Munson (R)4.6
LD-13John Timmer · Marion Wofford (R)10.5
LD-14Janice Nicolay · Linda L. Stensland (REP)0.3
LD-15Mary Vanderlinde · Patrick Kane (D)Unopposed
LD-16Howard Kennedy · Michael Oconnor (REP)2.0
LD-17Larry A. Nelson · Mary B. Edelen (DEM)3.2
LD-18Gary Bender · Edward Vangerpen (R)9.9
LD-19Loren Anderson · L. L. Mean (R)2.8
LD-20Albert Kocer · Gordon Mickelson (D)15.7
LD-21Jean T. Beddow · Ed Olson (DEM)1.2Incumbent lost
LD-22Malcolm C. McKillop · Dennis Vanoverschelde (REP)0.4Incumbent lost
LD-23Doug Fosheim · Deb Kuhler (DEM)0.1Incumbent lost
LD-24Bernard W. Christenson · Peggy Cruse (REP)3.0Incumbent lost
LD-25Walter L. Zabel · Gust Kundert (R)17.1
LD-26Kenneth McNenny · Marie Ingalls (R)4.4
LD-27Larry Gabriel · Roger Porch (R)Unopposed
LD-28Richard Hagen · Wesley Elwood (D)20.4
LD-29William F. Cerny · Albert Schramm (D)1.8Incumbent lost
LD-30Gordon R. Pederson · Elmer E. Flatt (R)8.5
LD-31Jim Hood · Harvey Krautschun (R)11.9
LD-32Alyce McKay · John Sears (R)Unopposed
LD-33Floyd Matthew · W. A. Tubbs (R)0.5
LD-34Don Ham · Knute Knudson (R)Unopposed
LD-35Della M. Wishard · Charles Q. Mateer (R)19.6

South Dakota

Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Algara, Carlos; Amlani, Sharif (Harvard Dataverse); Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner; MIT Election Data and Science Lab