SOUTH DAKOTA
      Nov. 2, 2010 U.S. Senate                                      

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+John Thune (R) i
 		227,947
 		100%

227,947
Registration: 519,361.  Ballots cast: 323,410.
Plurality: 227,947 votes (100 percentage points).
 SD Secretary of State



Notes:  Sen. John Thune (R), first elected in 2004, was unopposed for a second term.

Dr. Eric Ostermeier, who runs the "Smart Politics" website published by University of Minnesota Libraries, observed that 2010 marked "the first time in 34 contests since popular vote U.S. Senate elections were introduced in 1914 that a Democratic candidate has failed to appear on the ballot in South Dakota."  He highlighted the "plunge into oblivion...from the 49.4 percent of the vote tallied by 2004 Democratic nominee Tom Daschle, to being completely off the ballot six years later."

See also:
Eric Ostermeier.  "Democratic Party Failure to Field Candidate in South Dakota U.S. Senate Race Is Historic."  Smart Politics [University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing], Apr. 15, 2010.


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