For immediate release
January 20, 2025
Contact: Nick Tomboulides
Email: ntomboulides@termlimits.com
New Poll: 88% of South Dakota Voters Support Term Limits on Congress
Pierre, SD – A new poll of registered South Dakota voters conducted by RMG Research on September 4-11, 2024 found an overwhelming 88% of South Dakotans favor term limits for Congress. This reflects sentiments in favor of congressional term limits in other states as well. The poll showed that 85% of South Dakotans would want their state senator and state representative to favor legislation calling for a convention to propose congressional term limits.
The poll also reveals that 84% of voters would be more likely to vote for a candidate who supported congressional term limits. In recent elections, it has become evident that candidates who do not support term limits have become vulnerable to those candidates who do.
South Dakota State Chair for U.S. Term Limits Erin Tobin says, “South Dakotans believe in term limits, and are frustrated that they have voted this into our state constitution, yet it was overturned by the Supreme Court. It’s time for our South Dakota legislature to help deliver what their constituents have asked for for decades.”
Support for congressional term limits was broad-based among all political affiliations and demographics.
The survey was conducted September 6-11 by RMG Research, Inc. with a margin of sampling error, +/- 4.3 percentage points.
Crosstabs available upon request.
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U.S. Term Limits is the largest nonpartisan, nonprofit organization advocating solely on term limits. Our mission is to improve the quality of government with a citizen legislature that closely reflects its constituency and is responsive to the needs of the people it serves. USTL does not require a self-limit on individuals. Our aim is to limit the terms of all members of Congress as an institution. Find out more at termlimits.org.
RMG Research: Long recognized as one of the world’s leading public opinion pollsters, Scott Rasmussen is committed to enhancing the public dialogue through data-driven analysis that explores the underlying currents of public opinion.
