◆ The candidate record

John R. Thune

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◆ The seat

OFFICE: Senate
STATE: South Dakota
PARTY: REPUBLICAN PARTY
STATUS: Incumbent
ELECTION: 2026-11-03

◆ The record

Nothing on record yet. This candidate has no sourced actions: no floor votes, filings or scorecard ratings that we have verified, so there is no grade.

The record

No sourced action is on file for this candidate yet: no FEC-recorded 2A money, no recorded gun vote. That is not a statement about where they stand, only that nothing has been recorded.

Interest-group scorecards (1)

How advocacy groups on both sides score this candidate, reprinted as published. These are the groups’ judgments, not ours, and they never enter the grade above.

National Shooting Sports Foundation

National

≈100%2023-2024

As published

About this group

To promote, protect and preserve hunting and the shooting sports. Formed in 1961, NSSF has a membership of more than 12,000 manufacturers, distributors, firearms retailers, shooting ranges, sportsmen's organizations and publishers.

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