2022 United States House of Representatives election in South Dakota

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2022 United States House of Representatives election in South Dakota's at-large district

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Nominee Dusty Johnson Collin Duprel Party Republican Libertarian Popular vote 253,821 74,020 Percentage 77.42% 22.58%

County results Johnson:     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%     >90% Duprel:     50–60%     60–70%

U.S. Representative before election Dusty Johnson Republican Elected U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson Republican

The 2022 United States House of Representatives election in South Dakota was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the U.S. representative from South Dakota's at-large congressional district . The election coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.

Incumbent Republican Dusty Johnson was re-elected with 81.0% of the vote in 2020. ^[1] Johnson defeated state representative Taffy Howard in the Republican primary. No Democratic candidate appeared on the ballot, Johnson's only general election opponent was Libertarian Collin Duprel. ^[2]

Though Johnson won comfortably in a 55-point win, mainly due to competing against a candidate of a minor party, Duprel made a bit of a stronger performance than some had expected, with over 22% of the vote. Johnson himself received over 77% of the vote.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

• Dusty Johnson, incumbent U.S. Representative ^[3]

Eliminated in primary

• Taffy Howard, state representative from the 33rd district ^[4]

Polling

Poll source	Date(s) administered	Sample size [a]	Margin of error	Dusty Johnson	Taffy Howard	Undecided
South Dakota State University [5]	May 2–15, 2022	– (LV)	± 3.0%	53%	17%	30%

Primary results

Results by county:

  Johnson

•   50–60%
•   60–70%
•   70–80%

  Howard

•   50–60%
•   60–70%

Republican primary results ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Dusty Johnson (incumbent)	70,728	59.25%
	Republican	Taffy Howard	48,645	40.75%
Total votes			119,373	100.0%

Libertarian convention

Candidates

Nominee

• Collin Duprel, cattle rancher ^[7]

Democratic primary

Ryan Ryder dropped out of the race after past tweets of his were exposed, with subject matter including Ryder fantasizing about killing Johnson's family, and that he had masturbated to a photo of Governor Kristi Noem. ^[2]

Candidates

Withdrew

• Ryan Ryder, lawyer ^{[8] [2]}

Declined

• Troy Heinert, Minority Leader of the South Dakota Senate ^[9]

General election

Predictions

Source	Ranking	As of
The Cook Political Report [10]	Solid R	October 5, 2021
Inside Elections [11]	Solid R	October 11, 2021
Sabato's Crystal Ball [12]	Safe R	October 5, 2021
Politico [13]	Solid R	April 5, 2022
RCP [14]	Safe R	June 9, 2022
Fox News [15]	Solid R	July 11, 2022
DDHQ [16]	Solid R	July 20, 2022
538 [17]	Solid R	June 30, 2022

Polling

Poll source	Date(s) administered	Sample size [a]	Margin of error	Dusty Johnson (R)	Collin Duprel (L)	Undecided
Emerson College [18]	October 19–21, 2022	1,500 (LV)	± 2.4%	59%	16%	25%

Results

2022 South Dakota's at-large congressional district election ^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Dusty Johnson (incumbent)	253,821	77.42%	−3.54%
	Libertarian	Collin Duprel	74,020	22.58%	+3.54%
Total votes			327,841	100.00%	N/A
	Republican hold

By county

County [19]	Dusty Johnson Republican		Collin Duprel Libertarian		Margin		Total
	#	%	#	%	#	%
Aurora	989	84.67%	179	15.33%	810	69.35%	1,168
Beadle	4,712	84.41%	870	15.59%	3,842	68.83%	5,582
Bennett	699	73.04%	258	26.96%	441	46.08%	957
Bon Homme	2,057	84.13%	388	15.87%	1,669	68.26%	2,445
Brookings	8,783	76.11%	2,757	23.89%	6,026	52.22%	11,540
Brown	10,425	79.53%	2,684	20.47%	7,741	59.05%	13,109
Brule	1,652	81.82%	367	18.18%	1,285	63.65%	2,019
Buffalo	211	60.29%	139	39.71%	72	20.57%	350
Butte	3,021	74.72%	1,022	25.28%	1,999	49.44%	4,043
Campbell	583	90.11%	64	9.89%	519	80.22%	647
Charles Mix	2,391	80.70%	572	19.30%	1,819	61.39%	2,963
Clark	1,320	86.11%	213	13.89%	1,107	72.21%	1,533
Clay	2,971	71.87%	1,163	28.13%	1,808	43.73%	4,134
Codington	8,729	82.98%	1,790	17.02%	6,939	65.97%	10,519
Corson	550	67.16%	269	32.84%	281	34.31%	819
Custer	3,753	78.58%	1,023	21.42%	2,730	57.16%	4,776
Davison	5,769	83.46%	1,143	16.54%	4,626	66.93%	6,912
Day	1,898	79.81%	480	20.19%	1,418	59.63%	2,378
Deuel	1,643	85.48%	279	14.52%	1,364	70.97%	1,922
Dewey	870	62.63%	519	37.37%	351	25.27%	1,389
Douglas	1,279	89.75%	146	10.25%	1,133	79.51%	1,425
Edmunds	1,440	87.80%	200	12.20%	1,240	75.61%	1,640
Fall River	2,700	78.06%	759	21.94%	1,941	56.11%	3,459
Faulk	779	84.77%	140	15.23%	639	69.53%	919
Grant	2,587	84.68%	468	15.32%	2,119	69.36%	3,055
Gregory	1,690	85.79%	280	14.21%	1,410	71.57%	1,970
Haakon	791	82.74%	165	17.26%	626	65.48%	956
Hamlin	2,255	86.04%	366	13.96%	1,889	72.07%	2,621
Hand	1,259	86.47%	197	13.53%	1,062	72.94%	1,456
Hanson	1,336	85.15%	233	14.85%	1,103	70.30%	1,569
Harding	518	78.37%	143	21.63%	375	56.73%	661
Hughes	5,706	80.19%	1,410	19.81%	4,296	60.37%	7,116
Hutchinson	2,690	88.25%	358	11.75%	2,332	76.51%	3,048
Hyde	479	85.54%	81	14.46%	398	71.07%	560
Jackson	598	70.77%	247	29.23%	351	41.54%	845
Jerauld	720	87.27%	105	12.73%	615	74.55%	825
Jones	391	84.45%	72	15.55%	319	68.90%	463
Kingsbury	2,055	84.05%	390	15.95%	1,665	68.10%	2,445
Lake	3,810	81.85%	845	18.15%	2,965	63.69%	4,655
Lawrence	8,479	73.87%	2,999	26.13%	5,480	47.74%	11,478
Lincoln	21,002	79.67%	5,360	20.33%	15,642	59.34%	26,362
Lyman	982	78.62%	267	21.38%	715	57.25%	1,249
Marshall	1,378	77.90%	391	22.10%	987	55.79%	1,769
McCook	2,054	84.08%	389	15.92%	1,665	68.15%	2,443
McPherson	953	88.57%	123	11.43%	830	77.14%	1,076
Meade	8,152	71.22%	3,294	28.78%	4,858	42.44%	11,446
Mellette	429	72.96%	159	27.04%	270	45.92%	588
Miner	828	86.16%	133	13.84%	695	72.32%	961
Minnehaha	50,693	74.05%	17,765	25.95%	32,928	48.10%	68,458
Moody	1,976	77.49%	574	22.51%	1,402	54.98%	2,550
Oglala Lakota	647	32.63%	1,336	67.37%	-689	-34.75%	1,983
Pennington	31,305	73.86%	11,080	26.14%	20,225	47.72%	42,385
Perkins	1,060	78.99%	282	21.01%	778	57.97%	1,342
Potter	944	87.41%	136	12.59%	808	74.81%	1,080
Roberts	2,590	77.82%	738	22.18%	1,852	55.65%	3,328
Sanborn	845	87.20%	124	12.80%	721	74.41%	969
Spink	2,166	84.08%	410	15.92%	1,756	68.17%	2,576
Stanley	1,129	80.59%	272	19.41%	857	61.17%	1,401
Sully	625	82.89%	129	17.11%	496	65.78%	754
Todd	677	41.69%	947	58.31%	-270	-16.63%	1,624
Tripp	1,865	85.16%	325	14.84%	1,540	70.32%	2,190
Turner	3,174	84.98%	561	15.02%	2,613	69.96%	3,735
Union	5,180	81.97%	1,139	18.03%	4,041	63.95%	6,319
Walworth	1,691	86.19%	271	13.81%	1,420	72.38%	1,962
Yankton	6,499	78.27%	1,804	21.73%	4,695	56.55%	8,303
Ziebach	389	63.05%	228	36.95%	161	26.09%	617
Totals	253,821	77.42%	74,020	22.58%	179,801	54.84%	327,841

Notes

1. Key:
   A – all adults
   RV – registered voters
   LV – likely voters
   V – unclear

References

1. "General Election - November 3, 2020" (PDF). Secretary of State of South Dakota . November 10, 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 18, 2020. Retrieved November 12, 2020.
2. Larwence, Tom (March 3, 2022). "Ryan Ryder, South Dakota Democrat Who Tweeted About Masturbating to Kristi Noem, Drops Congressional Bid". www.thedailybeast.com. The Daily Beast . Retrieved March 5, 2022.
3. Lawrence, Tom (August 23, 2021). "2022 draws closer, and South Dakota Democrats still need to find and field candidates in state, national races". The South Dakota Standard. Archived from the original on August 24, 2021. Retrieved August 28, 2021.
4. Sneve, Joe. "South Dakota lawmaker kicks off primary challenge against Rep. Johnson". www.argusleader.com. Retrieved October 12, 2021.
5. South Dakota State University
6. "2022 Primary Election Official State Canvass Results" (PDF). Secretary of State of South Dakota . June 14, 2022. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
7. "2022 South Dakota Libertarian Party Candidates" (PDF). South Dakota Secretary of State. Retrieved June 4, 2022.
8. Heemstra, Jody. "Democrat Ryan Ryder announces challenge to Republican Congressman Dusty Johnson" . Retrieved March 3, 2022.
9. "South Dakota Minority Leader Heinert passes on run for Governor, joining private sector after term". December 16, 2021.
10. "2022 House Race Ratings". The Cook Political Report. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
11. "House Ratings". The Rothenberg Political Report. Retrieved October 4, 2021.
12. "2022 House Ratings". Sabato's Crystal Ball. October 5, 2021. Retrieved October 5, 2021.
13. "2022 Election Forecast". Politico. April 5, 2022.
14. "Battle for the House 2022". RCP. June 9, 2022.
15. "2022 Election Forecast". Fox News. July 11, 2022. Retrieved July 11, 2022.
16. "2022 Election Forecast". DDHQ. July 20, 2022. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
17. "2022 Election Forecast". FiveThirtyEight. June 30, 2022. Archived from the original on June 30, 2022. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
18. Emerson College
19. Barnett, Steve (November 15, 2022). "2022 General Election Official State Canvass Results" (PDF). Secretary of State of South Dakota . Archived (PDF) from the original on September 16, 2025. Retrieved January 3, 2026.

External links

Official campaign websites

• Collin Duprel (L) for Congress Archived December 21, 2022, at the Wayback Machine
• Dusty Johnson (R) for Congress