2016 United States Senate election in South Dakota

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2016 United States Senate election in South Dakota
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Nominee John Thune Jay Williams
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote265,516104,140
Percentage71.83%28.17%
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Thune:     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%     >90%
Williams:     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%
U.S. senator before election

John Thune
Republican

Elected U.S. Senator

John Thune
Republican

The 2016 United States Senate election in South Dakota was held November 8, 2016, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of South Dakota, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. The primaries were held June 7.

Contents

Incumbent Republican Senator John Thune was considered a potential 2016 presidential candidate, but decided instead to run for a third term in office. [1]

Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

Declined

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

  • Jay Williams, Chair of the Yankton County Democratic Party, former Yankton School Board member and candidate for the State House in 2010 and 2014 [3] [4]

Declined

Constitution Party

The Constitution Party nominated Kurt Evans for Senate depending on the resolution of a ballot-access legal action, however, the party's request to place a candidate on the ballot was not granted. [18] [19] [20]

General election

Debates

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered		Sample
size		Margin of
error		John
Thune (R)		Jay
Williams (D)		Undecided
SurveyMonkey November 1–7, 2016459± 4.6%65%31%4%
SurveyMonkey October 31–November 6, 2016435± 4.6%64%31%5%
SurveyMonkey October 28–November 3, 2016393± 4.6%66%29%5%
SurveyMonkey October 27–November 2, 2016345± 4.6%67%30%3%
SurveyMonkey October 26–November 1, 2016281± 4.6%65%32%3%
SurveyMonkey October 25–31, 2016298± 4.6%67%31%2%
Nielson Brothers Polling Archived November 2, 2016, at the Wayback Machine October 24–26, 2016600± 4.0%54%35%11%
Remington Research Group October 19–21, 20161,115± 3.0%57%36%7%
Mason-Dixon Archived October 26, 2016, at the Wayback Machine October 18–20, 2016400± 5.0%65%27%8%

Predictions

SourceRankingAs of
The Cook Political Report [21] Safe RNovember 2, 2016
Sabato's Crystal Ball [22] Safe RNovember 7, 2016
Rothenberg Political Report [23] Safe RNovember 3, 2016
Daily Kos [24] Safe RNovember 8, 2016
Real Clear Politics [25] Safe RNovember 7, 2016

Results

United States Senate election in South Dakota, 2016 [26]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Republican John Thune (incumbent) 265,516 71.83% -28.17%
Democratic Jay Williams104,14028.17%N/A
Total votes369,656 100.0% N/A
Republican hold

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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