General election · 3 November 2026

State Senate, District 33

2 candidates on the ballot, listed in certified ballot order.

Race type: Contested
Candidates: 2
Surveys returned: 0 of 2
Race receipts: $32,667

David Johnson

Not a sitting legislator

RepublicanBallot order 1

Where they stand on data centers

Nothing on record.David has never held legislative office, so there are no roll calls to score.

Survey: no response recorded

With no voting record and no returned questionnaire, this page has nothing from them on data centers. Voters have no stated position to weigh.

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Money — a signal, never a position

$30,825Total itemized receipts

$3,000Matched a flag (A–D)

CThe PAC funnel$3,000

Flagged donors on recordSouth Dakota Republican Forward $3,000 [C]; PSA PAC, Inc. $5,000 [E]

Spent for them by others

Independent expenditure. This is not the candidate’s money and they do not control it.

ELarge national or out-of-state money$5,000

Committee: David Johnson for SD.

Receipts were collected by hand from the filed forms, so this lists only the donors that matched a flag, not the full itemized list. The named donors here come to $8,000 against a $3,000 flagged total. A flag means a donor matched a category. It is not a finding that anything improper happened.

The itemized ledger and the reported total disagree for this committee. Both figures are published; the larger is shown above.

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Christopher Baumgartner

Not a sitting legislator

DemocratBallot order 2

Where they stand on data centers

Nothing on record.Christopher has never held legislative office, so there are no roll calls to score.

Survey: no response recorded

With no voting record and no returned questionnaire, this page has nothing from them on data centers. Voters have no stated position to weigh.

Money — a signal, never a position

$1,842Total receipts reported

—Matched a flag (A–D)

No itemized donors filed. That is not the same as having raised nothing.

Committee: Chris For Senate 33.

A flag means a donor matched a category. It is not a finding that anything improper happened.

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What the flags mean

A · Data center and Big Tech: The industry itself, its lobbyists, and the trade group that testified for the 50-year tax break.
B · Utility, power and energy: Utilities, generators, transmission and the ethanol bloc — interests whose revenue rises with data center load.
C · The PAC funnel: Money arriving through a political action committee rather than directly.
D · Named individuals: People named in the underlying investigation.
E and F · Outside money: Large national spending and independent expenditure made for a candidate. Never the candidate’s own money, and never added to their receipts.

How the score is built

Roll calls on 2026 data center bills are tracked. A vote counts as protective when it sided with residents on cost, water, or local control.

Candidates with no legislative service have no score. That is shown as an absence, never as a zero.

Full roll calls and bill text: the legislative scorecard.

Correct the record

Every figure here traces to a state-published filing. If something is wrong, we want to fix it fast.

Candidates may submit a questionnaire response at any time; it is published verbatim beside the voting record.

Email corrections through the Elections page.