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R South Dakota Senate · District 6 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Ernie Otten

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Total votes
2,196
all sessions
Attendance
93%
135 missed
Near the chamber average
With party
89%
of cast votes
Higher than 85% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
7%
crosses aisle rarely
Lower than 89% of chamber peers
Sponsored
274
bills & resolutions
Lower than 83% of chamber peers
Committees
8
assignments
2,196 roll-call votes

Voting record

Yea
1,723
voted in favor
Nay
320
voted against
Absent
135
missed votes
Total cast
2,196
across all sessions
Crossed party
208
votes against own party
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SCR 605
Celebrating the South Dakota Division of the Izaak Walton League of America for its ideals and accomplishments during one hundred years of conservation leadership.
Yea
Passed
56–7
Feb 28, 2022
SB 63
revise the appropriation for road improvements to the State Veterans Cemetery, to provide for ordinary operations of the cemetery, and to declare an emergency.
Yea
Passed
63–0
Feb 28, 2022
SB 49
authorize the Department of the Military to construct a cold storage building located in Rapid City, South Dakota, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.
Yea
Passed
64–0
Feb 28, 2022
SB 154
revise criteria for the South Dakota freedom scholarship.
Yea
Passed
39–25
Feb 28, 2022
SB 169
establish a means for certain Department of Corrections inmates to earn credit against fines or costs ordered by the sentencing court.
Yea
Passed
61–3
Feb 28, 2022
SB 50
make an appropriation for water, wastewater and storm water projects throughout state government, and to declare an emergency.
Yea
Passed
64–0
Feb 28, 2022
HCR 6011
declaring August thirty-first as Young Republicans Day.
Yea
Passed
63–0
Feb 28, 2022
SB 51
make an appropriation to support firefighter training equipment and recruitment efforts in the state, and to declare an emergency.
Yea
Passed
64–0
Feb 28, 2022
SB 188
allow for unlicensed businesses to store alcoholic beverages.
Yea
Passed
58–6
Feb 28, 2022
SB 83
modify when a motion for expungement of an arrest record may be made and to declare an emergency.
Yea
Passed
64–0
Feb 28, 2022
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