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South Dakota Constitutional Amendment J

Only United States citizens may vote. 2026 results by county, from South Dakota's official results file: Yes 61.5%, No 38.5% statewide.

Statewide

Title: An Amendment to the South Dakota Constitution Clarifying that an Individual Must Be a Citizen of the United States to be Eligible to Vote. Attorney General explanation: Article VII, § 2 of the South Dakota Constitution defines who is qualified to vote in state elections. Among these qualifications are age, residency, and United States citizenship requirements. Article VII, § 2 also establishes that individuals may be disqualified from voting because of mental incompetence or a felony conviction. This constitutional amendment adds people who are not United States citizens to the list of individuals disqualified from voting, clarifying the existing requirement that only citizens may vote in state elections.

A yes vote
Vote “Yes” to adopt the amendment.
A no vote
Vote “No” to leave the Constitution as it is.
Yes 61.5% No 38.5%

183,765 yes and 114,928 no.

The Secretary of State's ballot question pamphlet, page 3 · The state's unofficial results

The state's unofficial totals. We don't call measures.

By county

66 counties: Yes has the most votes in 61, No has the most votes in 5. The figures for each county are from the same file and add up to the statewide totals.

CountyYesNoVotes
Aurora County64.2%35.8%953
Beadle County62.6%37.4%4,704
Bennett County55.2%44.8%813
Bon Homme County66.2%33.8%2,098
Brookings County57.8%42.2%11,144
Brown County62.6%37.4%11,878
Brule County63.3%36.7%1,750
Buffalo County46.0%54.0%367
Butte County69.0%31.0%3,405
Campbell County68.1%31.9%568
Charles Mix County63.4%36.6%2,600
Clark County69.5%30.5%1,473
Clay County48.6%51.4%4,024
Codington County63.8%36.2%9,704
Corson County57.4%42.6%709
Custer County69.3%30.7%4,641
Davison County62.6%37.4%5,979
Day County57.6%42.4%2,204
Deuel County67.7%32.3%1,683
Dewey County42.7%57.3%1,256
Douglas County73.6%26.4%1,221
Edmunds County69.5%30.5%1,415
Fall River County68.2%31.8%3,219
Faulk County70.3%29.7%802
Grant County63.5%36.5%2,834
Gregory County67.6%32.4%1,563
Haakon County69.1%30.9%819
Hamlin County71.4%28.6%2,208
Hand County68.8%31.2%1,252
Hanson County67.3%32.7%1,101
Harding County73.1%26.9%644
Hughes County59.2%40.8%6,412
Hutchinson County68.8%31.2%2,506
Hyde County64.6%35.4%497
Jackson County59.7%40.3%757
Jerauld County64.5%35.5%673
Jones County69.0%31.0%445
Kingsbury County63.1%36.9%2,009
Lake County61.6%38.4%4,363
Lawrence County62.5%37.5%10,354
Lincoln County62.6%37.4%25,890
Lyman County59.1%40.9%1,081
Marshall County53.3%46.7%1,627
McCook County67.9%32.1%2,131
McPherson County73.6%26.4%982
Meade County68.7%31.3%9,923
Mellette County57.8%42.2%592
Miner County64.8%35.2%870
Minnehaha County57.3%42.7%64,955
Moody County63.0%37.0%2,440
Oglala Lakota County27.2%72.8%2,165
Pennington County62.0%38.0%36,760
Perkins County73.4%26.6%1,233
Potter County65.1%34.9%905
Roberts County56.7%43.3%2,921
Sanborn County63.7%36.3%818
Spink County63.5%36.5%2,222
Stanley County61.4%38.6%1,307
Sully County69.1%30.9%703
Todd County35.2%64.8%1,612
Tripp County69.6%30.4%1,902
Turner County68.5%31.5%3,181
Union County68.5%31.5%5,679
Walworth County66.6%33.4%1,606
Yankton County62.8%37.2%7,594
Ziebach County55.4%44.6%547

The share with the most votes in each place is in bold. That's the count, not a result.

Sources & scope

South Dakota's official results, these figures first read Nov 12, 4:13 AM. Unofficial until certified. South Dakota's page has its other statewide offices, ballot measures and legislature.