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South Dakota Constitutional Amendment K

A trust fund for unclaimed property. 2026 results by county, from South Dakota's official results file: Yes 60.9%, No 39.1% statewide.

Statewide

Title: An Amendment to the South Dakota Constitution Establishing the Trust for Unclaimed Property Fund. Attorney General explanation: Under South Dakota statute, intangible property is presumed to be abandoned if it remains unclaimed by the owner for more than three years after it became payable or distributable. Examples of intangible property are traveler’s checks, money orders, bank deposits, refunds, stocks, funds owed under a life insurance policy, and property held in a safe deposit box. Abandoned intangible property is transferred to the State Treasurer to hold while waiting for the owner to claim it. The State Treasurer must provide public notice of the abandoned property. This proposed constitutional amendment establishes a trust fund where unclaimed abandoned property will be deposited. Portions of the interest and income from this fund will be distributed into the general fund for the benefit of the state. This proposed amendment requires the Legislature to determine the amount to be distributed that promotes the growth of the trust fund and the distributed amount.

A yes vote
Vote “Yes” to adopt the amendment.
A no vote
Vote “No” to leave the Constitution as it is.
Yes 60.9% No 39.1%

178,578 yes and 114,481 no.

The Secretary of State's ballot question pamphlet, page 4 · 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 59, No has the most votes in 7. The figures for each county are from the same file and add up to the statewide totals.

CountyYesNoVotes
Aurora County59.5%40.5%946
Beadle County59.2%40.8%4,650
Bennett County44.0%56.0%800
Bon Homme County57.4%42.6%2,064
Brookings County63.0%37.0%10,868
Brown County61.3%38.7%11,554
Brule County58.0%42.0%1,717
Buffalo County40.2%59.8%361
Butte County60.8%39.2%3,363
Campbell County58.8%41.2%560
Charles Mix County57.5%42.5%2,590
Clark County53.4%46.6%1,450
Clay County59.9%40.1%3,958
Codington County60.6%39.4%9,474
Corson County50.2%49.8%701
Custer County62.7%37.3%4,566
Davison County61.3%38.7%5,897
Day County53.0%47.0%2,175
Deuel County57.8%42.2%1,657
Dewey County50.7%49.3%1,239
Douglas County68.2%31.8%1,206
Edmunds County63.2%36.8%1,401
Fall River County59.7%40.3%3,163
Faulk County59.8%40.2%794
Grant County55.2%44.8%2,770
Gregory County60.2%39.8%1,539
Haakon County55.1%44.9%798
Hamlin County63.8%36.2%2,149
Hand County61.5%38.5%1,236
Hanson County57.0%43.0%1,082
Harding County59.5%40.5%625
Hughes County62.8%37.2%6,329
Hutchinson County61.1%38.9%2,463
Hyde County58.4%41.6%498
Jackson County46.6%53.4%742
Jerauld County58.8%41.2%675
Jones County57.6%42.4%436
Kingsbury County60.5%39.5%1,983
Lake County61.3%38.7%4,302
Lawrence County60.6%39.4%10,176
Lincoln County66.4%33.6%25,312
Lyman County53.4%46.6%1,078
Marshall County52.4%47.6%1,608
McCook County62.5%37.5%2,112
McPherson County65.5%34.5%973
Meade County61.7%38.3%9,752
Mellette County48.3%51.7%584
Miner County57.7%42.3%846
Minnehaha County62.8%37.2%63,485
Moody County58.2%41.8%2,408
Oglala Lakota County27.3%72.7%2,164
Pennington County60.6%39.4%36,093
Perkins County61.2%38.8%1,205
Potter County58.9%41.1%892
Roberts County51.3%48.7%2,870
Sanborn County57.1%42.9%805
Spink County57.7%42.3%2,183
Stanley County60.9%39.1%1,287
Sully County61.7%38.3%694
Todd County45.7%54.3%1,604
Tripp County57.9%42.1%1,863
Turner County63.4%36.6%3,129
Union County63.5%36.5%5,587
Walworth County59.9%40.1%1,583
Yankton County61.5%38.5%7,439
Ziebach County46.7%53.3%546

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.