2016 South Dakota Democratic presidential primary

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2016 South Dakota Democratic presidential primary
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  2008 June 7, 2016 (2016-06-07) 2020  
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  Hillary Clinton by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg Bernie Sanders September 2015 cropped.jpg
Candidate Hillary Clinton Bernie Sanders
Home state New York Vermont
Delegate count1010
Popular vote27,047 [1] 25,959
Percentage51.03%48.97%

2016 South Dakota Democratic Presidential Primary election by county.svg
Election results by county.

The 2016 South Dakota Democratic presidential primary was held on June 7 in the U.S. state of South Dakota as one of the Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

Contents

The Democratic Party's primaries in California, Montana, New Jersey and New Mexico were held the same day, as are Republican primaries in the same five states, including their own South Dakota primary. Additionally, the Democratic Party held North Dakota caucuses the same day.

Opinion polling

Poll sourceDate1st2ndOthers / Undecided
Official Primary results [2] June 7, 2016Hillary Clinton
51.0%
Bernie Sanders
49.0%
Targeted Persuasion [3]

Margin of error: ±3.31%
Sample size: 874

May 23–24, 2016Hillary Clinton
50%
Bernie Sanders
47%
Undecided
3%

Results

South Dakota Democratic primary, June 7, 2016
CandidatePopular voteEstimated delegates
CountPercentagePledgedUnpledgedTotal
Hillary Clinton 27,04751.03%10212
Bernie Sanders 25,95948.97%10010
Uncommitted033
Total53,006100%20525
Source: [4] [5]

Results by county

CountyClintonVotesSandersVotes
Aurora 53.19%15046.81%132
Beadle 57.32%50142.68%373
Bennett 43.79%7456.21%95
Bon Homme 53.32%22546.68%197
Brookings 51.45%95548.55%901
Brown 54.61%1,36945.39%1,138
Brule 45.39%18254.61%219
Buffalo 60.77%11039.23%71
Butte 37.03%16762.97%284
Campbell 43.48%2056.52%26
Charles Mix 51.40%29348.60%277
Clark 56.57%11243.43%86
Clay 50.57%62349.43%609
Codington 56.21%82843.79%645
Corson 43.73%11556.27%148
Custer 47.02%24552.98%276
Davison 55.19%54244.81%440
Day 62.82%34337.18%203
Deuel 59.34%16240.66%111
Dewey 34.61%18165.39%342
Douglas 56.47%4843.53%37
Edmunds 52.31%17047.69%155
Fall River 40.51%20759.49%304
Faulk 52.44%8647.56%78
Grant 55.76%52844.24%419
Gregory 52.19%17947.81%164
Haakon 30.26%2369.74%53
Hamlin 59.15%18140.85%125
Hand 51.72%10548.28%98
Hanson 53.89%9746.11%83
Harding 25.93%1474.07%40
Hughes 51.92%52848.08%489
Hutchinson 54.71%15145.29%125
Hyde 60.61%4039.39%26
Jackson 46.09%5953.91%69
Jerauld 59.63%9640.37%65
Jones 39.22%2060.78%31
Kingsbury 55.07%20144.93%164
Lake 51.49%48448.51%456
Lawrence 42.83%70557.17%941
Lincoln 55.49%1,43644.51%1,152
Lyman 50.00%11550.00%115
Marshall 62.94%28737.06%169
McCook 61.85%21438.15%132
McPherson 50.54%4749.46%46
Meade 43.27%53056.73%695
Mellette 39.68%5060.32%76
Miner 56.48%10943.52%84
Minnehaha 53.22%6,01846.78%5,290
Moody 55.86%26244.14%207
Oglala Lakota 42.54%42557.46%574
Pennington 45.85%3,38454.15%3,996
Perkins 31.62%4368.38%93
Potter 52.21%5947.79%54
Roberts 49.68%39250.32%397
Sanborn 59.46%6640.54%45
Spink 58.47%28341.53%201
Stanley 48.22%9551.78%102
Sully 42.05%3757.95%51
Todd 43.78%40856.22%524
Tripp 48.06%13651.94%147
Turner 56.59%23243.41%178
Union 55.39%38044.61%306
Walworth 51.05%12148.95%116
Yankton 54.90%70645.10%580
Ziebach 41.07%9258.93%132
Total51.03%27,04748.97%25,959

Source: [6]

Analysis

South Dakota, a predominantly white and rural state in the Great Plains with a significant Native American population, was split near evenly between Clinton and Sanders in terms of geography and delegate count. Secretary Clinton carried the eastern portion of the state, with the exception of Roberts County in the northeast corner. She edged out Sanders in Minnehaha County, the most populated county and home to Sioux Falls. Lincoln County (Canton), Brown County (Aberdeen), Brookings County (Brookings), Codington County, (Watertown), Yankton County (Yankton, South Dakota), Davison County (Mitchell), and Hughes County (home to the state capital Pierre), all gave Clinton substantial margins that were enough for her to carry one of the most Republican states in the country.

Senator Bernie Sanders kept the race close by winning the western portion, which is far more rural than the eastern half and tends to vote more Republican in presidential elections. The most populated county in the region and second most populous in the state, Pennington County, home to Rapid City, gave Sanders an 8.3% margin over Clinton. Sanders also carried the counties of Oglala Lakota, Jackson, and Bennett, which are part of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. These counties are among the most poverty stricken in the United States (as Sanders tends to do well among voters with low incomes), with the census-designated place of Allen in Bennett County being considered the poorest municipality in the entire country. Sanders also carried several other Native American reservations including neighboring Rosebud Indian Reservation to the east, the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation to the north, and its neighbor Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, part of which stretches into North Dakota.

Sanders had visited the Pine Ridge reservation in May, where he spoke to residents and was warmly welcomed by Native American tribal leaders, talking about the need to improve health care and education on reservations and maintain tribal sovereignty. Other issues brought up by Sanders including the Keystone Pipeline and fracking, which many Native Americans had expressed opposition towards. Another likely reason for the large amount of Native American support for Sanders was towards a controversial comment Secretary Clinton made in April after Donald Trump became the presumptive nominee where she stated, "I have a lot of experience dealing with men who sometimes get off the reservation in the way they behave and how they speak." The remarks were considered offensive by many people, and likely benefitted Sanders (though Clinton appeared to do well among Native Americans in New Mexico the same day). [7]

See also

References

  1. South Dakota Secretary of State - Official Primary Results Archived 2016-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Official Primary results
  3. "Hillary Clinton Leads Sanders By 3 in South Dakota on Strength with Women and Registered Democrats" (PDF). Targeted Persuasion. Retrieved June 4, 2016.
  4. The Green Papers
  5. South Dakota Secretary of State - Official Primary Results
  6. "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections".
  7. "Why Bernie Sanders Is Going All Out for Native Americans - ABC News". ABC News .