For purposes of the election of successors to the members of the council, the state is divided into nine council districts as follows:

1. (1) District 1, consisting of Hanson, Davison, Aurora, Brule, Douglas, and Hutchinson counties;
2. (2) District 2, consisting of Clay, Union, Bon Homme, Charles Mix, and Yankton counties;
3. (3) District 3, consisting of McCook, Minnehaha, Turner, and Lincoln counties;
4. (4) District 4, consisting of Miner, Sanborn, Lake, Moody, and Brookings counties;
5. (5) District 5, consisting of Pennington, Haakon, Hughes, Hyde, Hand, Beadle, Custer, Jackson, Jones, Lyman, Buffalo, Jerauld, Mellette, Fall River, Oglala Lakota, Bennett, Todd, Tripp, and Gregory counties;
6. (6) District 6, consisting of Codington, Grant, Deuel, Hamlin, and Kingsbury counties;
7. (7) District 7, consisting of Brown, Edmunds, McPherson, Campbell, Corson, Harding, and Perkins counties;
8. (8) District 8, consisting of Marshall, Roberts, Day, and Clark counties; and
9. (9) District 9, consisting of Butte, Meade, Ziebach, Dewey, Walworth, Potter, Faulk, Spink, Lawrence, Stanley, and Sully counties.

Source: 11 SDR 88, effective January 8, 1985; 12 SDR 128, 12 SDR 154, effective July 1, 1986; 19 SDR 145, effective March 29, 1993; 24 SDR 179, effective June 28, 1998 ; 45 SDR 159, July 5, 2019.

General Authority: SDCL 38-29-3.

Law Implemented: SDCL 38-29-2 , 38-29-3.

Prior versions effective: 1998-06-28.