Stephanie Marie Herseth Sandlin is an American attorney,university administrator,and politician from the Democratic Party. She represented South Dakota's at-large congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2004 until 2011. Sandlin was first elected to Congress in a July 2004 special election and won three full terms before losing to Republican Kristi Noem in 2010. She was the youngest female member of the House,and the first woman elected to the House from South Dakota. Before her 2007 marriage to Max Sandlin,she was known as Stephanie Herseth. She is a Democrat and a member of the Herseth family of South Dakota. She and Senator Tim Johnson are the last Democrats to win a statewide and/or federal election in South Dakota.
Gladys Shields Pyle was an American educator and national record setting female politician during the first score of years post-ratification of Women's Suffrage Amendment to the U. S. Constitution,who set numerous national and state partisan electoral records before the age of 50,including at least a dozen national records related to her 1938 U. S. Senate election. Her most significant national electoral records are:
- First female nationally to enter the U S Senate through election (1938) and first to do so in her own right at the age of 48. She ran 5.6% ahead of the second highest vote getter for any statewide office in her state in that election.
- First female nationally to run for both governor and U.S. Senate and first to do so in her own right.
- First female nationally to be elected to both a state constitutional legislative office (1922) and a state constitutional executive office (1926) in any state and first to do so in her own right. Only female nationally to be both the first elected to a state constitutional legislative office and the first to be elected to a state constitutional executive office in any state.
- First female nationally to receive more votes cast than had been received by any other statewide candidate since statehood in any state (1928).
- Second female nationally to receive both the highest percentage of the vote received of all statewide candidates and most total raw votes received of all statewide candidates in a general election in any state (1928) and first female to do so since ratification of the Suffrage Amendment in any state.
Mitch Krebs was the co-anchor of the 6:00pm and 10:00pm news at KSFY-TV in Sioux Falls,South Dakota until February 1,2007. He is married to former South Dakota Secretary of State Shantel Krebs (R).
The South Dakota House of Representatives is the lower house of the South Dakota Legislature. It consists of 70 members,two from each legislative district. Two of the state's 35 legislative districts,Districts 26 and 28,are each subdivided into two single-member districts. The South Dakota House of Representatives meets at the South Dakota State Capitol in Pierre.
The Miss South Dakota competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the U.S. state of South Dakota in the Miss America pageant.
The structure of the government of South Dakota is based on that of the federal government,with three branches of government:executive,legislative,and judicial. The structure of the state government is laid out in the Constitution of South Dakota,the highest law in the state. The constitution may be amended either by a majority vote of both houses of the legislature,or by voter initiative.
Theresa B. "Huck" Two Bulls was an attorney,prosecutor and politician in the United States and the Oglala Sioux Tribe. In 2004 she was elected as Democratic member of the South Dakota Senate,representing the 27th district,the first American Indian woman to be elected to the state legislature. She served until 2008. That year Two Bulls was elected as president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation,the second woman to serve in this position. She served one term,which was two years.
The 2010 United States House of Representatives election in South Dakota took place on Tuesday,November 2,2010. Voters selected a representative for their single At-Large district,who run on a statewide ballot. On June 8,2010,the Republicans nominated Kristi Noem,Assistant Majority Leader of the South Dakota House of Representatives and the Democrats nominated the incumbent Stephanie Herseth Sandlin. B. Thomas Marking ran as an Independent candidate. In the general election,Noem defeated Herseth Sandlin,winning 48.1 percent of the vote to 45.9 percent for Herseth Sandlin.
The 2002 South Dakota gubernatorial election took place on November 2,2002 to elect a Governor of South Dakota. Incumbent Governor Bill Janklow was term-limited and couldn't seek reelection to a third consecutive term. Janklow instead ran successfully for the at-large district in the United States House of Representatives. Republican nominee Mike Rounds was elected with 56.8% of the vote,defeating Democratic nominee Jim Abbott by a margin of almost 15%.
Larry Rhoden is an American politician and businessman serving as the 34th governor of South Dakota since 2025.
Billie Harmon Sutton is an American former professional bronc rider and politician. He was a member of the South Dakota Senate from 2011 to 2019,served as Minority Leader,and was the 2018 Democratic nominee for Governor of South Dakota,which he narrowly lost to Republican nominee Kristi Noem in the general election.
Dan Lederman is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the South Dakota Senate representing District 16 from January 11,2011,until he resigned on March 30,2015. Lederman served consecutively in the South Dakota Legislature from January 2009 until January 11,2011,in the South Dakota House of Representatives District 16 seat.
The 2018 South Dakota gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018,to elect the next governor of South Dakota. Incumbent Republican governor Dennis Daugaard was term-limited and could not seek a third consecutive term.
The 2018 United States House of Representatives election in South Dakota was held on November 6,to elect the U.S. representative for South Dakota's at-large congressional district. The election coincided with other statewide,legislative,and local elections.
The 2018 South Dakota elections were held on November 6,2018. All of South Dakota's executive officers were up for election as well as South Dakota's at-large seat in the United States House of Representatives.
Neal Tapio is an American businessman,South Dakota state senator,and a former candidate for U.S. Representative for South Dakota's at-large congressional district. Tapio gained attention as an early supporter of Donald Trump and served as the Trump presidential campaign director for South Dakota.
Jon Hansen serves as a representative for the 25th Legislative District in the South Dakota House of Representatives. A member of the Republican Party,he formerly served as the Speaker pro tempore of the South Dakota House of Representatives.
Tamara St. John is an American politician and a Republican member of the South Dakota House of Representatives representing District 1 since January 8,2019. With her election,St. John became the first and only Native American Republican woman to ever serve in the South Dakota House of Representatives.
Robert E. Glanzer was an American politician who served in the South Dakota House of Representatives as a member of the Republican Party from 2017 to 2020.
The 1930 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 4,1930. Incumbent Democratic Governor William J. Bulow declined to run for re-election to a third term,instead opting to successfully run for the U.S. Senate. The Republican nomination was hard-fought and the primary was crowded;because no candidate received 35% of the vote,state law required that the nomination be decided at a state party convention. There,former State Senator Warren Green,the last-place finisher in the primary,defeated Secretary of State Gladys Pyle,the plurality winner. In the general election,Green faced D. A. McCullough,the state's Rural Credits Commissioner and the Democratic nominee. Despite Bulow's success in the preceding two elections,Green defeated McCullough by a decisive margin—even as Bulow himself was elected to the U.S. Senate.
