South Dakota — Governor
Currently held by a Republican · incumbent running
Democrat
Dan Ahlers
3%
Republican
Larry Rhoden
97%
ForecastSafe R
- Projected margin
- R+18.0
- 80% range
- R+29.5 to R+6.5
- Partisan lean
- R+28.9
- Uncertainty multiplier
- 1.80×
The 80% range comes from 200,000 simulations in which this race’s error is correlated with every other race through the national, state and demographic layers.
How the estimate is built
>99.9%
Fundamentals >99.9%
- Polling average
- no polls
- Fundamentals
- R+17.8
- Blended
- R+17.8
- Similar-race shift
- +1.6
Polling
No public polling of this matchup. The forecast rests on fundamentals plus the polling residuals of demographically and politically similar races — which is the normal case: most of the 435 House seats are never polled.
Fundamentals
- Partisan lean
- R+28.9
- Elasticity
- 0.94
- Incumbency
- −5.0
- Candidate experience
- 0.0
- Fundraising
- 0.0
- National environment
- D+7.1
- Expected margin
- R+19.5