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1876–2024
Edmunds County, South Dakota
Edmunds County·South Dakota

Edmunds County has voted Republican for as long as anyone can remember.

One of South Dakota's most Republican-leaning corners of the northern plains

18762024·38 elections
Edmunds County, South Dakota · Jon Roanhaus · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+61
in 2024
Archetype
Republican loyalist
since the recent cycles
Population
4,048
2024 ACS
Most similar
Hamlin County
SD · similarity 1.00
6 precincts · 2,031 votes cast
Trump · R+61
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−60.8%
3841,6182,031
2020R
−56.5%
4171,5381,985
2016R
−54.9%
3801,4331,918
2012R
−33.2%
6221,2641,936
2008R
−19.0%
8191,2132,076
2004R
−29.9%
7651,4342,234
2000D
+29.3%
1,2576761,986
1996R
−3.5%
9731,0552,310
1992R
−2.2%
8949442,260
1988R
−2.6%
1,2591,3272,599
1984R
−21.2%
1,0071,5532,570
1980R
−34.2%
8831,8812,914
1976D
+11.4%
1,6291,2942,932
1972D
+2.5%
1,6461,5673,216
1968R
−10.5%
1,2251,5342,940
1964D
+8.4%
1,7081,4423,150
1960R
−3.6%
1,6091,7283,337
1956R
−3.2%
1,5801,6853,265
1952R
−36.5%
1,0132,1783,191
1948R
−8.7%
1,2531,4932,765
1944R
−29.4%
9611,7622,723
1940R
−23.7%
1,4432,3413,784
1936D
+5.5%
2,0301,8183,888
1932D
+36.6%
2,5881,1833,836
1928R
−4.4%
1,5971,7433,355
1924R
−31.1%
2771,0432,461
1920R
−48.9%
2831,4862,462
1916D
+16.1%
8946341,612
1912D
+49.1%
72901,484
1908R
−4.7%
6587261,448
1904R
−36.3%
3537861,193
1900R
−5.7%
5536211,195
1896D
+15.7%
510371888
1892R
−26.3%
156386873
1888
No data
1884
No data
1880
No data
1876
No data
Demographics
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
American
100.0%
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
0.0%
speak English only
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Catholic & Orthodox
23.7%
Mainline Protestant
21.0%
Other Christian
13.3%
Pentecostal & Holiness
4.8%
Baptist
1.6%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 35.6% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Edmunds County, a sparsely settled wheat-farming county near the North Dakota border, has delivered lopsided Republican margins for decades, with the 2024 presidential result landing at R+60.8 in a county of fewer than 4,400 residents.

The Republican margin in Edmunds County reached its widest at sixty-one points in 2024. The margin in 2024 was sixty-one points, in line with the county's deep historical pattern.

Edmunds County's loyalty is rooted in its place. Median household income of $81,630, a 95% non-Hispanic-white share, and a population of 4,048 together describe a community whose political habits are deeply settled. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Hamlin County and Clark County.