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File · Money Read
What the money shows
Mike Rounds has an estimated net worth of $8M. The 2026 campaign raised $2.9M. Outside groups had $565,848 spent for Mike Rounds. Mike Rounds sits on Cybersecurity and Securities, Insurance, and Investment.
Sources: House disclosures · Senate disclosures · FEC
Est. net worth
$8.0M
$3.5M+
Raised (last cycle)
$2.9M
FEC · cycle 2026
Years in role
11
Senator since 2015
Net-worth filings
11
−$7.8M since 2015
File — Balance
Bills weighed against funded sectors
Each pan counts bills. Excluded bills are shown beside the scale when the vote or bill direction is unclear.
Ideological / Leadership
$636K in corporate money from ideological / leadership · 0 roll calls · 0 bills
against ideological / leadership
0 bills
with ideological / leadership
0 bills
No scored votes
No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.
Other
$224K in corporate money from other · 0 roll calls · 0 bills
against other
0 bills
with other
0 bills
No scored votes
No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.
Banking & Financial
$136K in corporate money from banking · 13 roll calls · 9 bills
Tech & Telecom
$84K in corporate money from tech · 8 roll calls · 2 bills
Party Committee
$62K in corporate money from party committee · 0 roll calls · 0 bills
against party committee
0 bills
with party committee
0 bills
No scored votes
No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.
Energy & Utilities
$20K in corporate money from energy · 2 roll calls · 1 bills
Health & Pharma
$19K in corporate money from health · 0 roll calls · 0 bills
against health
0 bills
with health
0 bills
No scored votes
No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.
Insurance
$10K in corporate money from insurance · 0 roll calls · 0 bills
against insurance
0 bills
with insurance
0 bills
No scored votes
No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.
File A — Net Worth
Net worth over time
Estimated from financial disclosures. The band shows the disclosed range; the line is the midpoint estimate.
midpoint disclosed range govt salary
source filing →† Includes one or more open-ended top brackets (over $50M). The high end is a floor, so the true figure may be higher.
File C — Service
Term history
- SenatorSDR2021 – 2027 · 6 yrs
- SenatorSDR2015 – 2021 · 6 yrs
File D — Benchmark
If they'd just invested 20%
A disciplined-saver benchmark: 20% of each year's government salary, invested at an assumed 10%/yr return — versus actual disclosed net worth.
hypothetical retirement actual net worth salary
Hypothetical, not actual savings — see methodology.
File — Background
Senator Mike Rounds, SD
Born October 24, 1954.
Studied at
South Dakota State University [wikidata]
File — The 2026 race
South Dakota · Senate
General election 2026-11-03. Money figures are FEC filings for the 2026 cycle.
The read · South Dakota · Senate
Mike Rounds has raised more than 4 times the next candidate.
Republican Mike Rounds has raised about $2.9M, more than 4 times any rival.
Brian Bengs reports 99% of campaign money from individuals.
$566K in itemized outside money is on file, led by DEFEND AMERICAN JOBS.
Public campaign-finance filings, 2026 cycle. Candidate rows are filers on record, not final ballot lists. Totals are rounded to whole dollars.
The tale of the tape
Money, side by side. Green marks the leader on each line.
Mike Rounds R · incumbent | vs | BB Brian Bengs I · challenger |
|---|---|---|
| $2.9M | Raised | $782K |
| $2.7M | Cash on hand | $51K |
| 48% | From PACs | 1% |
| 46% | From individuals | 99% |
| Ideological / Leadership | Top donor sector | Too few to rank |
| Yes | Incumbent | No |
Contractor money
Federal contractors who funded this member
This is a documented association, not a claim that campaign money caused an award.
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Bills
Recorded votes
31 votes · 25 Yea · 6 Nay. "Sector money" is this member's corporate and union money from the sector each bill touches. Receipts, not a claim about the vote. Money-linked votes first.
1–15 of 31
File — The South Dakota delegation
Who else South Dakota sends to Congress
2 senators and 1 of 1 House seat filled. Counting this seat.
Seat counts come from the 2020 census apportionment. A seat shows as open when no current member holds it. Source
File — Where this page comes from
Mike Rounds · sources
Only sources that fed this profile are listed here.
| Source | What it gave this page | Last fetched |
|---|---|---|
| @unitedstates congress-legislators github.com | Roster, terms, identifiers, official site link | 2026-07-30 |
| Wikidata www.wikidata.org | Education, career before office, family ties | 2026-07-30 |
| The member's official site | Where to reach them. We link out rather than republishing office addresses and phone numbers. | - |