As far as the Obama administration goes, they took a hard hit. Republicans now have the majority of the house and Democrats have the minority. This will cause a struggle for bills to be passed as the senate is more closely divided.

In local news, Republicans completely pooned the Democrats in all of the elections. Smoking is now banned in local bars and resturants. Noem beat Herseth to take the lone house seat as well as Dugaard defeated Heidepriem in the Governor race.  Noem has had help from certain counties to push her to victory.  Certain areas of South Dakota voted primarily for Noem and Herseth.