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2002 general · November 5, 2002

2002 South Dakota State Senate election results, district by district

Every South Dakota State Senate district in the 2002 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Republicans controlled the chamber · 35 seats

After the electionD 10 · R 25
Races35
Changed party0
Unopposed46%16 races
Incumbents defeated1

Every district

D 10 · R 25

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
LD-1Paul Symens (D)40.8
LD-2H. Paul Dennert (D)37.9
LD-3Duane Sutton (R)45.7
LD-4Larry Diedrich (R)36.5
LD-5Lee Schoenbeck (R)Unopposed
LD-6Brock L. Greenfield (R)11.6
LD-7Arnold M. Brown (R)Unopposed
LD-8Daniel D. Sutton (D)Unopposed
LD-9Tom Dempster (R)6.6
LD-10Gene G. Abdallah (R)Unopposed
LD-11Mitch Richter (R)Unopposed
LD-12William F. Earley (R)2.2Incumbent lost
LD-13Dick Kelly (R)12.1
LD-14David L. Knudson (R)Unopposed
LD-15Gil Koetzle (D)Unopposed
LD-16Kenneth D. Albers (R)Unopposed
LD-17John J. Reedy (D)3.2
LD-18Garry A. Moore (D)43.2
LD-19Frank Kloucek (D)8.7
LD-20Ed Olson (R)Unopposed
LD-21Sam Nachtigal (D)28.4
LD-22Robert N. Duxbury (D)38.9
LD-23Jay L. Duenwald (R)Unopposed
LD-24Patricia Dehueck (R)Unopposed
LD-25Clarence Kooistra (R)Unopposed
LD-26John Koskan (R)13.7
LD-27Richard Hagen (D)62.8
LD-28Eric H. Bogue (R)Unopposed
LD-29Marguerite Kleven (R)Unopposed
LD-30Drue J. Vitter (R)58.5
LD-31Jerry Apa (R)Unopposed
LD-32Arlene H. Ham (R)Unopposed
LD-33J. P. Duniphan (R)36.5
LD-34Royal McCracken (R)44.0
LD-35William Napoli (R)17.0

South Dakota State Senate

Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner