South Dakota Democratic Delegation 2004

The Green Papers
2004 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions

South Dakota Democrat
Presidential Nominating Process
Primary: Tuesday 1 June 2004¹
State Party Central Committee: Friday 18 June 2004

Candidate	Popular Vote	Delegate Votes
Candidate	Popular Vote	Hard Total	Floor Vote
Kerry, John F.	`69,473 82.3%`	`14. 63.6%`	`22. 100.0%`
Uncommitted	`5,105 6.0%`	`8. 36.4%`
Dean, Howard	`4,838 5.7%`
LaRouche, Lyndon H., Jr.	`2,943 3.5%`
Kucinich, Dennis J.	`2,046 2.4%`
(available)
Total	`84,405 100.0%`	`22. 100.0%`	`22. 100.0%`

Voter Eligibility: Closed Primary, Polls close 8:00p CDT (0100 UTC) / 7:00p MDT (0100 UTC)
Delegate Selection: Proportional Primary

22 total delegate votes - 9 district / 3 at large; 2 Pledged PLEOs; 7 Unpledged PLEOs; 1 Unpledged add-on

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South Dakota Primaries for Statewide offices and Congress

The Popular Vote above is based on official returns from the 1 June Primary. This Presidential Primary coincides with a state/local primary. These coinciding primaries tend to have an impact upon voter turnout.

SOUTH DAKOTA Primary and Special Election Returns from an official source

Here's how we compute the delegate count:

A candidate must receive 15% or more of the total popular vote to qualify for delegates. Discard votes cast for those candidates who do not meet the threshold.
Allocate Congressional District delegates from the qualified vote in each district. Allocate Pledged PLEO and At-Large delegates using the state-wide qualified vote.
In each jurisdiction (CD and statewide):

Total qualified vote = total votes cast for the qualifying candidates in the jurisdiction.
Allocation = (delegates for the jurisdiction) × (candidate's popular vote) ÷ (total qualified vote).
Assign each candidate the WHOLE NUMBER of delegates.
If delegates remain, allocate each of the remaining delegates to those candidates with the LARGEST REMAINDERS.

Contest				Kerry			Uncommitted
	Pop Vote	Qual Vote	Del	Vote	Alloc	Del	Vote	Alloc	Del
CD	79,106	65,147	9	65,147	9.000	9	4,813
PLEO	79,106	65,147	2	65,147	2.000	2	4,813
At-Large	79,106	65,147	3	65,147	3.000	3	4,813
Delegates			14			14

Reference: http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P04/DSP/SD-D.doc

Tuesday 1 June 2004: 14 of 22 delegates to the Democratic National Convention are allocated to presidential contenders based on the primary results statewide as South Dakota has only a single at-large congressional seat. A mandatory 15 percent threshold is required in order for a presidential contender to be allocated National Convention delegates at either the congressional district or statewide level.

9 district delegates are to be allocated proportionally to presidential contenders based on the primary results in the State's single at-large congressional district.
In addition, 5 delegates are to be allocated to presidential contenders based on the primary vote statewide.
- 3 at-large National Convention delegates
- 2 Pledged PLEOs

Friday 18 June 2004 - State Party Central Committee

The remaining 8 National Convention delegates consist of

7 Unpledged PLEO delegates:

4 Democratic National Committee members
3 Members of Congress (2 Senators and 1 Representative)
0 Governors
0 Distinguished Party Leaders

1 Unpledged "add-on" (selected by the State Party Central Committee on 18 June during the 18-19 June 2004 State Convention).

These 8 delegates and will go to the Democratic National Convention officially "Unpledged".

Delegation to the National Convention

South Dakota Delegation (as posted by dems2004.org, 4 July 2004)

Role	(unknown)	Kerry	(total)
Pledged District	0	9	9
Pledged PLEO	1	1	2
Pledged At-Large	1	2	3
Total Pledged	2	12	14
Alternate Pledged District	0	3	3
Alternate Pledged PLEO	0	0	0
Alternate Pledged At-Large	1	0	1
Total Alternates	1	3	4
Unpledged			8
Pages			0

Role(s)	Preference	Name	Residence
Pledged District 1	Kerry	Steven Emery	White River, SD
Pledged District 1	Kerry	Hon. Deb Knecht	Houghton, SD
Pledged District 1	Kerry	James Kraft	Aberdeen, SD
Pledged District 1	Kerry	Hon. John McIntyre	Sioux Falls, SD
Pledged District 1	Kerry	Bonnie Mehlbrech	Sioux Falls, SD
Pledged District 1	Kerry	Hon. Daniel Sutton	Flandreau, SD
Pledged District 1	Kerry	Gail Swenson	Sioux Falls, SD
Pledged District 1	Kerry	Bill Walsh	Deadwood, SD
Pledged District 1	Kerry	Kristin Wisnowski	Mitchell, SD
Pledged PLEO	Kerry	Hon. Jim Burg	Pierre, SD
Pledged PLEO	(unknown)	Hon. Donn Larson	SD
Pledged At-Large	Kerry	Mary Foster	Spearfish, SD
Pledged At-Large	(unknown)	Hon. Donita Loudner
Pledged At-Large Delegation Chair	Kerry	Sandra Waltman	Ft. Pierre, SD
Alternate Pledged District	Kerry	Jillian Husman	Sioux Falls, SD
Alternate Pledged District	Kerry	Paul Jensen	Rapid City, SD
Alternate Pledged District	Kerry	Edith Renner	Spearfish, SD
Alternate Pledged At-Large	(unknown)	Paul Miller	Custer, SD
Unpledged Add-on		Linda Himmel-Roberts	Sioux Falls, SD
Unpledged Congressman		Hon. Stephanie Herseth	Brookings, SD
Unpledged DNC Member		Hon. Thomas Daschle	Washington, DC
Unpledged DNC Member		Judy Olson Duhamel	Rapid City, SD
Unpledged DNC Member		Dennis Langley	Rapid City, SD
Unpledged DNC Member		Hon. Nick Nemec	Holabird, SD
Unpledged DNC Member		Sharon Stroschein	Mansfield, SD
Unpledged Senator		Hon. Tim Johnson	Washington, DC

¹ Democratic Party's "First Determining Step" of the delegate selection process.