The 2004 United States House of Representatives election in South Dakota took place on Tuesday, November 2, 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 Stephanie Marie Herseth Sandlin (born December 3, 1970) is an American attorney, university administrator, and politician from the Democratic Party. She served in the United States House of Representatives for from 2004 until 2011. Sandlin was ...

and

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Larry Diedrich, who had run in the July 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

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's dominant 59.9% to 38.4% over Senator John Kerry in South Dakota in the 2004 presidential election.

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