South Dakota's At-large congressional district special election, 2004

United States House of Representatives Special election in South Dakota, 2004

2002 ← June 1, 2004 → 2004

Nominee Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Larry Diedrich Party Democratic Republican Popular vote 132,420 129,415 Percentage 50.57 49.43

House Member before election Bill Janklow Republican Elected House Member Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Democratic

Bill Janklow
Republican

Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
Democratic

The 2004 United States House of Representatives Special election in South Dakota took place on Saturday, June 1, 2004. Voters selected a representative for their single At-Large district, who ran on a statewide ballot.

In the regularly scheduled election in November 2004, freshman incumbent Stephanie Herseth and state Senator Larry Diedrich, who had run in the June 2004 special election earlier, faced each other in a rematch; Libertarian candidate Terry L. Begay also ran in this election.

Herseth again prevailed, this time by a wider margin of 53% to 46% despite President George W. Bush's dominant 59.9% to 38.4% over Senator John Kerry in South Dakota in the 2004 presidential election.

The 2004 United States House of Representatives special election in South Dakota was held on June 1, 2004 to select the successor to Republican Representative Bill Janklow who resigned on January 20, 2004 following a conviction of vehicular manslaugter after an accident that had occurred months earlier, creating an open seat and necessitating a special election. Each party held a nominating convention to choose their nominee for the special election. Republicans selected state Senator Larry Diedrich over Barbara Everist, also a member of the South Dakota State Senate, as their nominee while Democrats chose attorney Stephanie Herseth, who had unsuccessfully challenged Janklow in 2002.

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