Sioux Falls doesn’t have a new mayor yet. The city’s mayoral race is heading to a runoff after neither candidate cleared the threshold needed to win outright Tuesday, with Erickson and Smith advancing past the rest of the field.
Neither name — Erickson nor Smith — secured enough votes to avoid a second election. The runoff sets up what figures to be a direct, two-person contest for the city’s top office.
No date for the runoff has been announced, according to Dakota News Now, which first reported the results Tuesday, June 3. Vote totals from the initial election were not immediately available.
Sioux Falls is South Dakota’s largest city, and its mayoral contests typically draw heavy attention across the state. Whether either candidate has issued a statement on the outcome wasn’t immediately clear.
A runoff date hasn’t been confirmed.
Dakota News Now reported the results on Tuesday, June 3, 2026. Read the original report.
