--- type: Person title: "Carl Perry" description: "SD Senate District 3 — SD State Senate District 3" role: "SD Senate District 3" party: "R" level: "state" branch: "legislative" state: "SD" district: "SD State Senate District 3" represents: "us/states/sd/districts/senate/3" tenure: start: "2025-01-14" current: true election: term_length: 2 term_limit: "varies" ids: person: "71e92e23-8670-4425-ab2c-09afe525ad70" office: "65953dad-e008-4661-9c61-cd1bf61ac61d" tenure: "61d1f85c-6ec9-4273-b1aa-b751bcc06e62" jurisdiction: "44dd014a-4181-4091-926c-52dceb71fe1c" sources: - field: tenure source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20" - field: jurisdiction source: "SLDU (Census 2025)" confidence: official tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, sd] timestamp: "2026-07-04" --- # Carl Perry Current SD Senate District 3 (SD State Senate District 3). Represents [SD State Senate District 3](/us/states/sd/districts/senate/3.md). ## Sources - tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20 - jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025) Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).