Lodgepole, SD Political Map | Democrat & Republican Areas in Lodgepole

By the BestNeighborhood data science team. Last updated May 2026.

Lodgepole is a Republican stronghold. About 15% of voters here vote Democratic and 85% Republican.

 

About 76% of adults in Lodgepole typically vote, above the U.S. average of about 62%. Among adults in Lodgepole, ~11% vote Democratic, ~64% Republican, and ~25% don't vote. The map below shows estimated turnout by block group.

How Lodgepole compares

Among cities within 25 miles, Lodgepole leans more Republican than 3 of 10 neighbors.

Lodgepole runs about 40 points more Republican than South Dakota as a whole.

Why Lodgepole leans the way it does

This analysis examined 14,881 data points per city to find what predicts political lean and turnout. The items below are a few correlations that stood out for Lodgepole, not a ranked or complete list of what matters most.

Areas with many family households vote Republican. About 80% of households in Lodgepole are family households, about 14 points above the U.S. average of 67%. Rural areas with a high white share vote Republican. Non-Hispanic white share in Lodgepole is about 95%, about 22 points above the U.S. average of 72%.

Paved land cover and Republican lean

Places with little paved surface tend to lean Republican; Lodgepole, SD sits in the bottom tenth nationally on this measure. Paved ground does not change how people vote; it mostly reflects how urban and built-up a place is.

Why turnout in Lodgepole looks the way it does

Areas with strong routine healthcare access turn out at higher rates. Lodgepole is in the top quarter nationally for routine-care measures such as insurance coverage, preventive screenings, and dental visits. The dental-visit rate here is about 68%, about 8 points above the U.S. average of 60%. High high-school completion lines up with higher turnout, and about 97% of adults in Lodgepole have completed high school, above 92% of cities. Learn more about the findings and methodology on the political spectrum map.

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Sources and methodology

Precinct-level voting records used to fit the model come from South Dakota Secretary of State, Elections, distributed by the Voting and Election Science Team. Demographic inputs come from the U.S. Census Bureau (ACS 5-year estimates and the 2020 Decennial Census). Health and environmental inputs come from the CDC (PLACES and the Environmental Justice Index). Land cover comes from the USGS and EPA. Election-day and lead-up weather come from PRISM 4km daily grids and the NOAA Global Historical Climatology Network. Mail-voting and election-administration patterns come from the MIT Election Lab's Survey of the Performance of American Elections. Block-group crime detail comes from CrimeGrade. Internet data and modeling support provided by ISPreports.org.

Modeling and analysis by the BestNeighborhood data science team. Full methodology and findings: political spectrum map.

Methodology reviewed by the BestNeighborhood data team. Last updated May 2026.