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The2022 South Dakota Secretary of State election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the nextsecretary of state ofSouth Dakota. IncumbentRepublicanSteve Barnett ran for re-election, but was defeated at the state convention by Monae Johnson.[1]
| Source | Ranking | As of |
|---|---|---|
| Sabato's Crystal Ball[3] | Safe R | December 1, 2021 |
| Elections Daily[4] | Safe R | November 7, 2022 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Monae Johnson | 212,348 | 63.90% | ||
| Democratic | Thomas Cool | 119,975 | 36.10% | ||
| Total votes | 332,323 | 100.00% | |||
| Republicanhold | |||||
| County[5] | Monae Johnson Republican | Thomas Cool Democratic | Margin | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Aurora | 785 | 69.10% | 351 | 30.90% | 434 | 38.20% | 1,136 |
| Beadle | 3,807 | 67.99% | 1,792 | 32.01% | 2,015 | 35.99% | 5,599 |
| Bennett | 593 | 61.71% | 368 | 38.29% | 225 | 23.41% | 961 |
| Bon Homme | 1,717 | 70.63% | 714 | 29.37% | 1,003 | 41.26% | 2,431 |
| Brookings | 6,874 | 58.58% | 4,861 | 41.42% | 2,013 | 17.15% | 11,735 |
| Brown | 8,007 | 60.70% | 5,184 | 39.30% | 2,823 | 21.40% | 13,191 |
| Brule | 1,330 | 67.07% | 653 | 32.93% | 677 | 34.14% | 1,983 |
| Buffalo | 134 | 35.45% | 244 | 64.55% | -110 | -29.10% | 378 |
| Butte | 3,225 | 79.65% | 824 | 20.35% | 2,401 | 59.30% | 4,049 |
| Campbell | 542 | 85.09% | 95 | 14.91% | 447 | 70.17% | 637 |
| Charles Mix | 1,919 | 64.35% | 1,063 | 35.65% | 856 | 28.71% | 2,982 |
| Clark | 1,091 | 74.12% | 381 | 25.88% | 710 | 48.23% | 1,472 |
| Clay | 2,029 | 45.64% | 2,417 | 54.36% | -388 | -8.73% | 4,446 |
| Codington | 7,162 | 69.41% | 3,157 | 30.59% | 4,005 | 38.81% | 10,319 |
| Corson | 513 | 57.13% | 385 | 42.87% | 128 | 14.25% | 898 |
| Custer | 3,660 | 74.65% | 1,243 | 25.35% | 2,417 | 49.30% | 4,903 |
| Davison | 4,680 | 67.73% | 2,230 | 32.27% | 2,450 | 35.46% | 6,910 |
| Day | 1,456 | 61.31% | 919 | 38.69% | 537 | 22.61% | 2,375 |
| Deuel | 1,359 | 71.56% | 540 | 28.44% | 819 | 43.13% | 1,899 |
| Dewey | 628 | 41.53% | 884 | 58.47% | -256 | -16.93% | 1,512 |
| Douglas | 1,189 | 85.17% | 207 | 14.83% | 982 | 70.34% | 1,396 |
| Edmunds | 1,215 | 76.22% | 379 | 23.78% | 836 | 52.45% | 1,594 |
| Fall River | 2,646 | 74.66% | 898 | 25.34% | 1,748 | 49.32% | 3,544 |
| Faulk | 712 | 78.67% | 193 | 21.33% | 519 | 57.35% | 905 |
| Grant | 2,177 | 71.85% | 853 | 28.15% | 1,324 | 43.70% | 3,030 |
| Gregory | 1,497 | 76.42% | 462 | 23.58% | 1,035 | 52.83% | 1,959 |
| Haakon | 856 | 90.11% | 94 | 9.89% | 762 | 80.21% | 950 |
| Hamlin | 2,021 | 78.58% | 551 | 21.42% | 1,470 | 57.15% | 2,572 |
| Hand | 1,134 | 78.64% | 308 | 21.36% | 826 | 57.28% | 1,442 |
| Hanson | 1,172 | 76.01% | 370 | 23.99% | 802 | 52.01% | 1,542 |
| Harding | 605 | 92.93% | 46 | 7.07% | 559 | 85.87% | 651 |
| Hughes | 4,563 | 64.03% | 2,563 | 35.97% | 2,000 | 28.07% | 7,126 |
| Hutchinson | 2,342 | 78.04% | 659 | 21.96% | 1,683 | 56.08% | 3,001 |
| Hyde | 412 | 75.05% | 137 | 24.95% | 275 | 50.09% | 549 |
| Jackson | 618 | 68.90% | 279 | 31.10% | 339 | 37.79% | 897 |
| Jerauld | 539 | 67.04% | 265 | 32.96% | 274 | 34.08% | 804 |
| Jones | 391 | 85.56% | 66 | 14.44% | 325 | 71.12% | 457 |
| Kingsbury | 1,673 | 69.91% | 720 | 30.09% | 953 | 39.82% | 2,393 |
| Lake | 3,007 | 64.17% | 1,679 | 35.83% | 1,328 | 28.34% | 4,686 |
| Lawrence | 7,812 | 67.10% | 3,831 | 32.90% | 3,981 | 34.19% | 11,643 |
| Lincoln | 16,642 | 62.66% | 9,916 | 37.34% | 6,726 | 25.33% | 26,558 |
| Lyman | 831 | 67.29% | 404 | 32.71% | 427 | 34.57% | 1,235 |
| Marshall | 1,036 | 57.97% | 751 | 42.03% | 285 | 15.95% | 1,787 |
| McCook | 1,735 | 72.17% | 669 | 27.83% | 1,066 | 44.34% | 2,404 |
| McPherson | 895 | 83.96% | 171 | 16.04% | 724 | 67.92% | 1,066 |
| Meade | 8,607 | 75.91% | 2,732 | 24.09% | 5,875 | 51.81% | 11,339 |
| Mellette | 374 | 61.82% | 231 | 38.18% | 143 | 23.64% | 605 |
| Miner | 629 | 68.00% | 296 | 32.00% | 333 | 36.00% | 925 |
| Minnehaha | 38,912 | 55.24% | 31,534 | 44.76% | 7,378 | 10.47% | 70,446 |
| Moody | 1,553 | 61.31% | 980 | 38.69% | 573 | 22.62% | 2,533 |
| Oglala Lakota | 291 | 12.11% | 2,112 | 87.89% | -1,821 | -75.78% | 2,403 |
| Pennington | 28,228 | 64.94% | 15,242 | 35.06% | 12,986 | 29.87% | 43,470 |
| Perkins | 1,110 | 84.99% | 196 | 15.01% | 914 | 69.98% | 1,306 |
| Potter | 851 | 80.89% | 201 | 19.11% | 650 | 61.79% | 1,052 |
| Roberts | 1,970 | 58.27% | 1,411 | 41.73% | 559 | 16.53% | 3,381 |
| Sanborn | 692 | 73.07% | 255 | 26.93% | 437 | 46.15% | 947 |
| Spink | 1,723 | 67.65% | 824 | 32.35% | 899 | 35.30% | 2,547 |
| Stanley | 993 | 71.54% | 395 | 28.46% | 598 | 43.08% | 1,388 |
| Sully | 584 | 77.56% | 169 | 22.44% | 415 | 55.11% | 753 |
| Todd | 435 | 23.10% | 1,448 | 76.90% | -1,013 | -53.80% | 1,883 |
| Tripp | 1,800 | 81.19% | 417 | 18.81% | 1,383 | 62.38% | 2,217 |
| Turner | 2,731 | 73.87% | 966 | 26.13% | 1,765 | 47.74% | 3,697 |
| Union | 4,653 | 71.54% | 1,851 | 28.46% | 2,802 | 43.08% | 6,504 |
| Walworth | 1,520 | 77.71% | 436 | 22.29% | 1,084 | 55.42% | 1,956 |
| Yankton | 5,142 | 61.77% | 3,182 | 38.23% | 1,960 | 23.55% | 8,324 |
| Ziebach | 319 | 49.84% | 321 | 50.16% | -2 | -0.31% | 640 |
| Totals | 212,348 | 63.90% | 119,975 | 36.10% | 92,373 | 27.80% | 332,323 |
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican