US ELECTION DASHBOARD
Preparing public records and geographic context.
South Dakota
· General election · Four-year term
Shown in surname order. Complete record, including write-ins and withdrawals ↓ · Photo credits ↓
Every candidate in the reviewed official scope, in surname order, including declared write-ins and withdrawn or removed entries when the source lists them.
Lieutenant governor: Steven McCleerey
Democratic
Lieutenant governor: Tony Venhuizen
Republican · Sitting governor (Larry Rhoden), per the governor registry.
Photographs identify candidates and do not imply endorsement. A photograph is shown only when it is linked to the same person through reviewed identity evidence; officeholder portraits are reused by person identity, never by office. Historical photographs keep their original dates. Every other candidate shows initials and “Photo unavailable”.
U.S. Embassy Jerusalem / Wikimedia Commons · 2025-06-09 18:07:26 · Officeholder portrait
Larry Rhoden 2025 (2) (cropped).jpg ↗ · CC BY 2.0 ↗ · Local derivative ↗
Resized to at most 320 × 400 and converted to WebP; original proportions retained. The interface displays a 4:5 crop; no retouching. The derivative is distributed under CC BY 2.0. Reviewed 2026-10-24.
File-description revision 1161152251 · Asset SHA-256 401a2b2efc543ea3be3f2087054e360cec3bdb66de97b6938528f40a54ca8b74
Official candidate record · Reviewed 2026-10-31 · Published date not supplied
Secretary of State 2026 General Election Candidate List, with candidate status (Active or Withdrawn with date). Party vacancies had to be filled by Aug 11, 2026. Its Ballot Order column gives each candidate’s statewide ballot position.
Seat evidence · Reviewed 2026-10-31 · Published date not supplied
Identifies Larry Rhoden as the sitting governor of South Dakota (repository governor registry, verified 2026-10-22). Seat status compares this officeholder with the official candidate record.
Race cards picture one Democratic and one Republican nominee, at equal size, when the official general-election ballot list includes exactly one of each; they appear in the official statewide ballot order where a source publishes one, and otherwise in surname order. Other contests (no Democratic or Republican nominee, top-four registration labels, an unverified ballot listing or no verified roster) picture the first four ballot candidates by surname. Every other ballot candidate is named on the card, and this page lists everyone in the reviewed record, including write-ins and withdrawn or removed candidates. No candidate is shown or omitted on judgments of competitiveness, and the display does not predict results.
South Dakota
Incumbent seeking reelection · Six-year Class II term beginning January 3, 2027
Official roster verified · Reviewed
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