What are your predictions for tonight’s election?

As I’m sitting here still wishing I could shake this cold. Primary election day is finally upon us!  After 7pm tonight, it’s actually over!

No more postcards, text messages, facebook ads, etcetera.  At least until the Republican Convention.

So – what are your predictions tonight?  Who are the winners and losers?  In case you needed help on keeping track, there’s a list below.

Race Name Party District BallotOrder
United States Senator John R. Thune REP 1
United States Senator Bruce Whalen REP 2
United States Senator Mark Mowry REP 3
United States Representative Dusty Johnson REP 1
United States Representative Taffy Howard REP 2
Governor Steven Haugaard REP 1
Governor Kristi Noem REP 2
State Senator Michael H. Rohl REP District 01 1
State Senator Joe Donnell REP District 01 2
State Representative Jake Schoenbeck REP District 02 1
State Representative John Sjaarda REP District 02 2
State Representative David Kull REP District 02 3
State Representative Jeffrey Lloyd Shawd REP District 02 4
State Senator Steve Kolbeck REP District 02 1
State Senator Spencer Wrightsman REP District 02 2
State Representative Kaleb W Weis REP District 03 1
State Representative Brandei Schaefbauer REP District 03 2
State Representative Richard Rylance REP District 03 3
State Representative Carl E. Perry REP District 03 4
State Senator Al Novstrup REP District 03 1
State Senator Rachel Dix REP District 03 2
State Representative Val Rausch REP District 04 1
State Representative Adam Grimm REP District 04 2
State Representative Fred Deutsch REP District 04 3
State Representative Stephanie Sauder REP District 04 4
State Senator Lee Schoenbeck REP District 05 1
State Senator Colin Alan Paulsen REP District 05 2
State Representative Matt Doyle REP District 07 1
State Representative Mellissa Heermann REP District 07 2
State Representative Doug Post REP District 07 3
State Representative Roger DeGroot REP District 07 4
State Senator Tim Reed REP District 07 1
State Senator Julie Erickson REP District 07 2
State Representative Lecia Summerer REP District 08 1
State Representative John Mills REP District 08 2
State Representative Tim Reisch REP District 08 3
State Senator Heather DeVries REP District 08 1
State Senator Casey Crabtree REP District 08 2
State Representative Kenneth Teunissen REP District 09 1
State Representative Bethany Soye REP District 09 2
State Representative Jesse Fonkert REP District 09 3
State Senator Mark Willadsen REP District 09 1
State Senator Brent Hoffman REP District 09 2
State Representative Brian K. Mulder REP District 11 1
State Representative Chris Karr REP District 11 2
State Representative Tyler Bonynge REP District 11 3
State Representative Roger Russell REP District 11 4
State Representative Greg Jamison REP District 12 1
State Representative Amber Arlint REP District 12 2
State Representative Kerry Loudenslager REP District 12 3
State Representative Gary Schuster REP District 12 4
State Representative Cole Heisey REP District 12 5
State Representative Sue Peterson REP District 13 1
State Representative Tony Venhuizen REP District 13 2
State Representative Penny BayBridge REP District 13 3
State Representative Richard L. Thomason REP District 13 4
State Representative Taylor Rae Rehfeldt REP District 14 1
State Representative Tyler Tordsen REP District 14 2
State Representative Gina M Schiferl REP District 14 3
State Representative Kevin D. Jensen REP District 16 1
State Representative Karla J. Lems REP District 16 2
State Representative Richard Vasgaard REP District 16 3
State Senator Jim Bolin REP District 16 1
State Senator Nancy Rasmussen REP District 16 2
State Representative Caleb Finck REP District 19 1
State Representative Michael Boyle REP District 19 2
State Representative Jessica Bahmuller REP District 19 3
State Representative Roger Hofer REP District 19 4
State Representative Drew Peterson REP District 19 5
State Representative Ben Krohmer REP District 20 1
State Representative Jeff Bathke REP District 20 2
State Representative Lance Koth REP District 20 3
State Representative Scott Moore REP District 23 1
State Representative Brandon Black REP District 23 2
State Representative Gregory Brooks REP District 23 3
State Representative James D. Wangsness REP District 23 4
State Senator Bryan J. Breitling REP District 23 1
State Senator Spencer Gosch REP District 23 2
State Representative Mike Weisgram REP District 24 1
State Representative Jim Sheehan REP District 24 2
State Representative Will D. Mortenson REP District 24 3
State Representative Mary Weinheimer REP District 24 4
State Senator Mary Duvall REP District 24 1
State Senator Jim Mehlhaff REP District 24 2
State Senator Tom Pischke REP District 25 1
State Senator Lisa Rave REP District 25 2
State Senator Kevin R. Crisp REP District 25 3
State Senator Leslie “Doc” Heinemann REP District 25 4
State Representative Ron Frederick REP District 26A 1
State Representative Joyce Glynn REP District 26A 2
State Representative Neal Pinnow REP District 28B 1
State Representative Thomas J. Brunner REP District 28B 2
State Representative Kirk Chaffee REP District 29 1
State Representative Kathy Rice REP District 29 2
State Representative Gary L Cammack REP District 29 3
State Senator Dean Wink REP District 29 1
State Senator Beka Zerbst REP District 29 2
State Senator John Carley REP District 29 3
State Representative Patrick J. Baumann REP District 30 1
State Representative Dennis Krull REP District 30 2
State Representative Lisa Gennaro REP District 30 3
State Representative Gerold F Herrick REP District 30 4
State Representative Trish Ladner REP District 30 5
State Senator Julie Frye-Mueller REP District 30 1
State Senator Timothy R. Goodwin REP District 30 2
State Representative Mistie Caldwell REP District 31 1
State Representative Scott Odenbach REP District 31 2
State Representative Mary J. Fitzgerald REP District 31 3
State Senator Randy Deibert REP District 31 1
State Senator Ron Moeller REP District 31 2
State Representative Becky J. Drury REP District 32 1
State Representative Jamie M. Giedd REP District 32 2
State Representative Steve Duffy REP District 32 3
State Representative Curt Massie REP District 33 1
State Representative Phil Jensen REP District 33 2
State Representative Janette McIntyre REP District 33 3
State Representative Dean Aurand REP District 33 4
State Senator David Johnson REP District 33 1
State Senator Janet Jensen REP District 33 2
State Representative Mike Derby REP District 34 1
State Representative Jess Olson REP District 34 2
State Representative Jodie Frye REP District 34 3
State Representative Tony Randolph REP District 35 1
State Representative Elizabeth Regalado REP District 35 2
State Representative Larry G. Larson REP District 35 3
State Representative Tina L Mulally REP District 35 4

33 thoughts on “What are your predictions for tonight’s election?”

  1. Some Sioux Falls area races my predictions are:
    D2 Senate – Kolbeck
    D2 House – Schoenbeck and Sjaarda
    D9 Senate – Willadson (barely)
    D9 House – Fonkert and Soye
    D11 – Karr and Mulder
    D12 – Jamison and Arlint
    D13 – Peterson and Venhuizen
    D14 – Rehfeldt and Tordsen
    D25 Senate – Pischke (barely). Heinneman pulls votes from Rave and mad dad sneaks in the Senate.

  2. I sincerely hope that enough people voted against Thune and Dusty to give them a wake up that a lot of us are unhappy with their RINO nonsense.

    1. I voted for both of them. They are great conservative leaders for South Dakota.

      1. Agreed! We don’t need a big mouth representing us in the likes of Madison Cawthorn or Marjorie Taylor Greene. Even like Steve King when he was representing Northwest Iowa. South Dakota doesn’t need that mess.

    1. I hope so! You’d hate to see that strategy rewarded and for big out of state money to try to buy future elections too.

      1. Can’t wait for the busses of those folks from RC to come to pierre. Wide eyed and unaware. Someone better tell Rick Santorum it’s going to be ugly. They’ve set their cause back, hell, they’ve killed their cause with what happened in this cycle.

  3. Inquiring minds want to know the predictions of South Dakota’s #1 political website.

  4. Thune, Noem, Johnson or is that Dusty Howard
    Dist 30 Gennaro, toss-up between Ladner, Krull
    30 Senate Goodwin
    33 Johnson
    33 Jensen, Massie
    34 Derby, Olson
    Pennington Commissioner Rossknect

    1. In the District numbered 30, the insanest of the all, grudznick predicts Mr. Goodwin who has become more sane will win. On the other side of the legislatures there are no good choices. Even Mr. Krull who seems like a swell fellow has some incorrect ideas he floats in the newspapers and when talking to people. I almost think Ladner is as good as it’s going to get for us.

      1. I really can’t disagree with you Ladner would be good again and maybe has the edge.

  5. I predict that AL Novstrup beats the gal that has been a Democrat her whole life until this election.

      1. Too bad Aberdeen no longer has a local newspaper with the latest local election results.

  6. I literally drove by Dusty Johnson standing on the corner begging for votes. 57th and Minnesota roughly an hr ago. Is this normal for candidates expected to blowout their opponent?

    1. Your comment is just saying that Dusty is a hard worker. Similar to how he operates in DC- he gets the job done while serving South Dakotans.

  7. I predict SD voter roles will be audited. Not sure when.

    I also predict that anyone supporting Bruce Whalen for US Senate, win or lose, will be fine with their support.

    Notice how Trump didn’t endorse anyone in the race?

    Strange ..

  8. In the upset of the day, season, decafe Julie Frye Mueller beat Tim Goodwin by 46 votes, recount possible but wow!! I did not see that coming.

  9. Pischke with the blowout, Duvall got unseated, Goodwin got beat, the Senate is shaping up to be interesting.

    1. I didn’t realize that there were that many deadbeat dads that supported Pischke. The Champion for deadbeat dads?

        1. 7:54 it’s highly accurate. Pischke’s only interest is in getting the taxpayers to support his kids for him. Somehow that’s become a conservative position.

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