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2004 United States House of Representatives election in South Dakota

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2004 United States House of Representatives election in South Dakota

← July 2004
(special)
November 2, 2004 2006 →
 
Nominee Stephanie Herseth Larry Diedrich
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 207,837 178,823
Percentage 53.4% 45.9%

County results
Herseth:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%
Diedrich:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%

U.S. Representative before election

Stephanie Herseth
Democratic

Elected U.S. Representative

Stephanie Herseth
Democratic

The 2004 United States House of Representatives election in South Dakota took place on Tuesday, November 2, 2004. Voters selected a representative for their single at-large district, who ran on a statewide ballot.

In the regularly scheduled election in November 2004, freshman incumbent Stephanie Herseth and state Senator Larry Diedrich, who had run in the July 2004 special election earlier, faced each other in a rematch; Libertarian candidate Terry L. Begay also ran in this election.

Herseth again prevailed, this time by a wider margin of 53% to 46%, despite President George W. Bush's dominant 59.9% to 38.4% over Senator John Kerry in South Dakota in the 2004 presidential election, as well as Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle's narrow loss in the state's concurrent election for U.S. Senate.

Results

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South Dakota's At-large congressional district election, 2004[1]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Stephanie Herseth (incumbent) 207,837 53.36
Republican Larry Diedrich 178,823 45.91
Libertarian Terry Begay 2,808 0.72
Total votes 389,468 100.00
Democratic hold

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

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References

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  1. ^ "Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives".