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South Dakota was the home state of George McGovern the Democratic Party nominee in the 1972 United States presidential election.Although McGovern a member of the liberal wing of his party in relatively conservative state was at the time of the election a popular two-term Senator having won re-election in 1968 with 56.8% of the vote he lost the presidential vote here by a significant margin to incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon.McGovern’s loss of South Dakota made him the second candidate in four years to lose his state of birth (in 1968 Hubert Humphrey also lost South Dakota where he was born) and residence (also in 1968 Richard Nixon lost New York where he then resided).
