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Candidates › SD-00 race › 2025–2026
RepublicanU.S. House, SD-00South Dakota
Has not served in Congress
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James Bialota’s words are not shown
FEC filings, Jul 1, 2026 to Sep 30, 2026 · Official FEC bulk data · committee C00922708
No receipts reported
FEC filings through Sep 30, 2026
Money groups spent on their own, not through a campaign. Each ad is filed against the candidate it names, so money attacking an opponent shows on the opponent’s row. Open a candidate to see who spent it.
Each group that spent in this race is followed to where its own money came from, and what it spent is split by those shares: a group whose money was 60% one person's counts as 60% of its spending theirs. Of what traced, 56% to named individuals, 36% to organizations, 1.8% to tax-exempt organizations that need not name their donors, 0.6% to committees nothing more could be followed from, 5.9% not itemized in the filings.
| Name | Amount |
|---|---|
| Person · Executive, First Premier Bank · behind South Dakota Values PAC | $89.4K |
| Organization · behind Conservatives for American Excellence Inc. | $28.8K |
| Organization · behind A Strong Innovation Economy Requires Strong IP Protection | $23.5K |
| Organization · behind Save American Freedom | $18.3K |
| Person · Founder & CEO, Citadel · behind Conservatives for American Excellence Inc. | $10.5K |
| Person · Founder, Empirical Foods · behind South Dakota Values PAC | $9.4K |
| Person · Self-Employed, Jim a Robinson Foundation · behind South Dakota Values PAC | $8.9K |
| Person · Co-CEO & President, Elliott Investment Management · behind Conservatives for American Excellence Inc. | $6.8K |
| Organization · behind Conservatives for American Excellence Inc. | $6K |
| Person · Executive, US Investments LLC · behind Save American Freedom | $3.7K |
| Organization · tax-exempt: need not name its donors · behind Conservatives for American Excellence Inc. | $2.6K |
| Organization · behind Conservatives for American Excellence Inc. | $2.3K |
Read for all 4 groups that spent. Shares are of what each group received, not a record of which dollar went where; an organization that need not name its donors ends the trail; a person who gave by more than one route is counted once here. It shows who stood behind the money, not what it was for.
No itemized payments
FEC filings through Sep 30, 2026
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Lost · 27,140 votes (21%) · 2 of 2 · Full results ↗
Every contest for this seat that named this candidate, most recent last; a result is shown once the race is called. Election dates and results from civicAPI (civicapi.org). civicAPI aggregates results from Secretaries of State and equivalent election bodies, and makes its own race calls. civicapi.org ↗
Primary June 2, 2026 · 2 polls
Each dot is a poll. A line is drawn from the third nonpartisan poll; there are 2 so far. How polls are read
Marty Jackley won. The race has been called, but the results source does not say how much of the vote it counted, so the polls are not measured against the margin.
| Poll | Marty Jackley | James Bialota | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|
| Result, partial count | 79.2% | 20.8% | — |
June 2, 2026 · Result
Poll data from The New York Times, licensed CC BY 4.0 · Updated November 10, 2026 · 1 poll paid for by a party or campaign is left out
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