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ate districts that are split into two separate House districts, each of which elects its own representative.
• Primaries were held in districts where a political party had more than one Senate candidate or more than two House candidates. The exception was in the two areas with split House districts, where primaries were held if a party had more than one House candidate.
• Republicans had 12 Senate primaries and 15 House primaries. Democrats had only three House primaries.
• Republicans now out

number Democrats 30-5 in the Senate, while the GOP has a 50-19 edge in the House, where one current representative is an independent affiliated with Republicans.
• The last time Democrats controlled a South Dakota legislative chamber was the two-year term after the 1992 election, when they won a 20-15 edge over Republicans in the Senate.
• State officials had predicted 25-30 percent of South Dakota's registered voters would cast ballots in the primary.
• "It's terrible. Very slow," said Evelyn Starnes, a poll worker in Sioux Falls. As of 4:30 p.m., about 80 people had cast their ballots at the Minnehaha County Administration building, which includes two precincts. Starnes said she normally would have anticipated at least 200 people voting by that time.
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