 Beadle County States Attorney Mike Moore had declared he would run for the Democrat nomination, but agreed to step aside for state senator Ron Volesky who finished 2nd in the Democrat Gubernatorial race to James Abbott.Larry won the general election by defeating Democrat Ron Volesky and Libertarian Bob Newland.Larry received 174,513 (53.52%)votes; Ron received 139,451 (42.76%) votes and Bob received 12,131 (3.72%) votes.