South Dakota Governor
Ratings
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Roster: South Dakota Secretary of State · state candidate list · as of October 17, 2026
No verified public poll. How we source polling data.
State demographics · Census ACS
- Median household income
- $75,081 (±$888)
- Median gross rent, monthly
- $946 (±$11)
- People below the poverty line
- 11.9% (±0.4%)
- People without health insurance
- 9.0% (±0.3%)
- Renter households paying 30% or more of income on rent
- 39.7% (±1.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates 2020-2024 , statewide; the survey window ends Dec 31, 2024. Survey estimates; the figure after ± is the 90% margin of error. The renter-burden share is derived by Thin Gold from two published Census percentages. This product uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.
Election information
- Voter registration deadline
- October 19, 2026, per the federal form; confirm with your state (U.S. Election Assistance Commission, National Mail Voter Registration Form, as of October 10, 2026)
- Early voting
- Not shown. We have not yet built a reader for this state's election office, so no state-published date is shown.
What is not on this page
- Candidate issue positions are not shown. We list a position only when it is tied to a named, dated source.
- No individual poll results are compiled for this race.
- No machine-readable filing data from South Dakota Secretary of State; see sdcfr.sdsos.gov.
- The previous result for this seat is not shown: we hold no certified results record for it yet.
- No general-election poll margin is on file for this race.
- We do not yet have the 2024 presidential result for this race.