Dennis Feickert (born June 19, 1948) is an American politician and a Democratic member of the

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representing District 1 since January 11, 2013. Fieckert served consecutively from January 2009 until January 11, 2013 in the District 3 seat. Fieckert was a

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er for Brown County from 1987 until 2009.

Elections

* 2012 Redistricted to District 1, and with incumbent Democratic Representative

David Sigdestad David S. Sigdestad is a Democratic member of the South Dakota House of Representatives The South Dakota House of Representatives is the lower house of the South Dakota Legislature. It consists of 70 members, two from each legislative distri ...

leaving the Legislature and leaving a District 1 seat open, Feickert and

Susan Wismer Susan M. Wismer (born December 13, 1955) is an American politician and a former Democratic member of the South Dakota House of Representatives who represented District 1. Wismer was the Democratic nominee in the 2014 South Dakota gubernatorial ...

were unopposed for both the June 5, 2012 Democratic Primary and the November 6, 2012 General election, where Feickert took the first seat with 5,967 votes (55.2%) and Wismer took the second seat. * 2008 When House District 3 incumbent

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Representative

Al Novstrup Al Novstrup (born August 4, 1954) is business owner, an American politician and a Republican member of the South Dakota House of Representatives representing District 3 since January 2015. Education Novstrup earned his BS in economics from Sou ...

ran for

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and left a District 3 seat open, Feickert ran in the June 3, 2008 Democratic Primary; in the four-way November 4, 2008 General election Feickert took the first seat with 5,561 votes (28.59%) and incumbent Republican Representative

David Novstrup David A. Novstrup (born February 2, 1983, in Aberdeen, South Dakota) is an American politician and a Republican Party (United States), Republican member of the South Dakota Senate representing District 3 since January 2015. He is the son of Sout ...

took the second seat ahead of Democratic nominee Mark Remily and Republican nominee Isaac Latterell. * 2010 Feickert ran in the June 8, 2010 Democratic Primary; in the four-way November 2, 2010 General election, incumbent Republican Representative David Novstrup took the first seat and Feickert took the second seat with 4,355 votes (27.23%) ahead of returning 2008 Republican nominee Isaac Latterell and Democratic nominee Tim Even; Latterell was elected to the House for District 6 in 2012.

References

External links

Official page
at the

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* 1948 births Living people Democratic Party members of the South Dakota House of Representatives Politicians from Aberdeen, South Dakota 21st-century American legislators {{SouthDakota-politician-stub