---
type: Person
title: "Ernie Otten"
description: "SD Senate District 6 — SD State Senate District 6"
role: "SD Senate District 6"
party: "R"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "SD"
district: "SD State Senate District 6"
represents: "us/states/sd/districts/senate/6"
tenure:
  start: "2025-01-14"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "99ad46f7-5bd1-4810-bafe-e57903787264"
  office: "ecdbfd61-ab40-4f76-b348-a892922f7e44"
  tenure: "0cbc9f53-363e-45dd-97ce-9fea3880f427"
  jurisdiction: "a23985d6-c839-4697-8ce3-9c4047ba2cd2"
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"
---

# Ernie Otten

Current SD Senate District 6 (SD State Senate District 6).

Represents [SD State Senate District 6](/us/states/sd/districts/senate/6.md).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).