US ELECTION DASHBOARD
Preparing public records and geographic context.
South Dakota
· General election · Six-year Class II term beginning January 3, 2027
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Every candidate in the reviewed official scope, in surname order, including declared write-ins and withdrawn or removed entries when the source lists them.
Democratic
Independent
Republican · Sitting U.S. senator for this seat (Bioguide R000605), per senate.gov.
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”.
United States Congress / Wikimedia Commons · 2015-01-16 · Officeholder portrait
Mike Rounds official Senate portrait.jpg ↗ · Public domain ↗ · 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 Public domain. Reviewed 2026-10-24.
File-description revision 1270508236 · Asset SHA-256 b8d9f959b15232d77598393183bef2b9392716b49ff9809ccebbee3fa8edb769
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Secretary of State 2026 General Election Candidate List, with candidate status (Active or Withdrawn with date).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
Lists Mike Rounds (R-SD) as the current Class II senator for South Dakota, matching the repository Congress snapshot (Bioguide R000605). 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 · Four-year term
Official roster verified · Reviewed
