Sioux Falls (Mitchell) · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
64.9%
173,473 votes · D+31.6
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 56.7%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
71.8%
71,965 votes · R+50.1
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 68.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
173,473votes
64.9% of the vote · D+31.6
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 156,363 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
219,044votes
63.8% of the vote · R+29.7
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 211,111 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Woodrow Wilson1912
+18.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+37.7 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place
Runner-up · George McGovern, 1972 · +17.3 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+34.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+32.5 · U.S. D+1.7
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +31.4 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
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U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Sioux Falls (Mitchell) · how this place’s counties split between candidates in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain and there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Sioux Falls (Mitchell), by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton45Obama11Edwards176,234 votes · 57 of 57 countiescaucus + primary
Clinton42Sanders1540,945 votes · 57 of 57 countiescaucus + primary
Biden55Buttigieg1Klobuchar142,183 votes · 57 of 57 countiescaucus + primary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+29.6
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+29.7
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 0.1 points.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Sioux Falls (Mitchell)
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2008 (partial)
13,290
1,971
7,732
3,584
3
2010 (partial)
13,168
1,789
7,893
3,479
7
2012 (partial)
13,182
1,576
8,321
3,277
8
2014 (partial)
13,041
1,520
8,270
3,243
8
2026 (partial)
435,576
98,391
227,418
46,453
63,314
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+1,365 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +8,992 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Sioux Falls (Mitchell) in Sioux Falls (Mitchell): net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+487
2012
+1,650
2013
+1,606
2014
−743
2015
−1,081
2016
−311
2017
+263
2018
−1,133
2019
−1,358
2021
+2,123
2022
+3,404
2023
+1,897
2024
+823
2025
+1,365
The Sioux Falls–Mitchell market covers much of eastern South Dakota, where fast-growing Sioux Falls increasingly drives statewide turnout patterns and has trended more competitive in recent cycles than the surrounding rural counties.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 37.7 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 50.1 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 3.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 29.7 points.
A population of 732,442, a 81% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $74,978 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Fargo-Valley City and Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson (Williston).
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How did Sioux Falls (Mitchell), South Dakota vote in 2024?
In 2024, Sioux Falls (Mitchell), South Dakota voted Republican by 29.7 points (R+29.7), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 343,459 votes cast, 116,889 went Democratic and 219,044 went Republican.
When did Sioux Falls (Mitchell), South Dakota last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Sioux Falls (Mitchell), South Dakota voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Sioux Falls (Mitchell), South Dakota?
Sioux Falls (Mitchell), South Dakota has a population of 732,442 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Sioux Falls (Mitchell), South Dakota?
Median household income in Sioux Falls (Mitchell), South Dakota is $74,978 — below the national median of $80,734. The South Dakota state median is $75,081.
What is the political history of Sioux Falls (Mitchell), South Dakota?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Sioux Falls (Mitchell), South Dakota from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 4 went Democratic and 29 went Republican.
