2026 General Election · Tuesday, November 3, 2026

U.S. Senate, South Dakota

2 candidates, listed alphabetically.

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Candidates

Brian L Bengs

Independent

Brian L Bengs is described in Wikipedia's coverage of this race as: U.S. Navy and Air Force veteran, former Northern State University political science professor, and Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in 2022.

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2026 United States Senate election in South Dakota (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)

Mike Rounds

RepublicanIncumbent

Current office: U.S. Senator from South Dakota

Republican U.S. Senator from South Dakota, serving since 2015. Senate committee assignments: Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; Committee on Appropriations; Committee on Armed Services; Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

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Committee Assignments of the 119th Congress (United States Senate, Public domain (U.S. government work))
Senators contact information (senators_cfm.xml) (United States Senate, Public domain (U.S. government work))
congress-legislators: legislators-current.json (service dates) (@unitedstates project, CC0 1.0)
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (U.S. Congress, Public domain (U.S. government work))
Mike Rounds (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Candidate list and race details

2026 General Election Candidate List (South Dakota Secretary of State, Public record)
2026 United States Senate elections (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)
2026 United States Senate election in South Dakota (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)

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