2024 South Dakota House of Representatives election

The 2024 South Dakota House of Representatives elections will be held on November 5, 2024, to elect all 70 seats in the South Dakota House of Representatives. The elections will coincide with the Presidential, U.S. House, and State Senate elections. The primary elections were held on June 4, 2024.

Partisan Background
In the 2020 Presidential Election, Republican Donald Trump won 33 of South Dakota's state House of Representatives districts and Democrat Joe Biden won 4 districts. Going into the 2024 South Dakota House of Representatives election, Republicans held one House of Representatives seat in a district that voted for Biden in 2020: District 27, a rural district with a majority Native American population (Biden+8%). Conversely, Democrats held one House of Representatives seat in a district that voted for Trump in 2020: District 28A, another rural district with a majority Native American population (Trump +3%).

Democrats

 * 1) District 15: Linda Duba is retiring.
 * 2) District 28A: Oren Lesmeister is term-limited.

Republicans

 * 1) District 1: Joe Donnell is retiring.
 * 2) District 3: Carl E. Perry is retiring to run for State Senate.
 * 3) District 4: Fred Deutsch is retiring to run for State Senate.
 * 4) District 4: Stephanie Sauder is retiring to run for State Senate.
 * 5) District 5: Hugh Bartels is term-limited.
 * 6) District 6: Ernie Otten is retiring to run for State Senate.
 * 7) District 8: John Mills is term-limited.
 * 8) District 9: Kenneth Teunissen is retiring.
 * 9) District 11: Chris Karr is term-limited (running for State Senate).
 * 10) District 13: Sue Peterson is term-limited (running for State Senate).
 * 11) District 16: Kevin D. Jensen is term-limited (running for State Senate).
 * 12) District 20: Lance Koth is retiring.
 * 13) District 21: Rocky Blare is retiring.
 * 14) District 22: Roger D. Chase is term-limited.
 * 15) District 22: Lynn Schneider is retiring.
 * 16) District 25: Randy Gross is retiring.
 * 17) District 28B: Neil Pinnow is retiring.
 * 18) District 29: Kirk Chaffee is retiring to run for State Senate.
 * 19) District 30: Dennis Krull is retiring.
 * 20) District 32: Kristin Conzet is retiring.

In primary election
Six incumbent representatives, all Republicans, were defeated in the June 4 primary election.

Republicans

 * 1) District 1: Tamara St. John lost renomination to Logan Manhart and Christopher Reder.
 * 2) District 5: Byron Callies lost renomination to Josephine Garcia and Matt Roby.
 * 3) District 14: Tyler Tordsen lost renomination to Tony Kayser and Taylor Rehfeldt.
 * 4) District 23: James Wangsness lost renomination to Spencer Gosch and Scott Moore.
 * 5) District 29: Gary Cammack lost renomination to Terri Jorgenson and Kathy Rice.
 * 6) District 34: Becky Drury lost renomination to Heather Baxter and Mike Derby.