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English: Results of the 2023 Mississippi gubernatorial election by county Reeves 50–60% . Reeves 60–70% . Reeves 70–80% . Reeves 80–90% . Presley 50–60% .
[1] 14 counties, all in the southwest, were created before the Mississippi Territory became a state in 1817. [1] The last county created was Humphreys County in 1918. [2] The Mississippi Constitution governs the creation of new counties, which requires an election of qualified electors to approve of the creation of a new county. Elections are ...
The elections were the first under Mississippi's new congressional map after redistricting completed by the state government. [1] All four races were considered uncompetitive in the general election [2] [3] and turnout from Mississippians was the lowest out of the entire United States, measuring in at 31.5%. [4]
Elections are held every year in the US state of Mississippi. [1]US presidential elections are held every 4 years, most recently in 2020. Elections to the House of Representatives are every 2 years, most recently in 2020.
Voters in Forrest & Lamar counties will head to the polls like the rest of the nation to make their choice for president. What else is on the ballot?
He easily handled Mississippi in the past two election cycles, winning the state by 17.8% in 2016 and again by 16.5% four years later. Before the election, most news organizations considered Mississippi a safe win for Trump. Trump received 60.9% of the vote in Mississippi, winning the state by a 22.9% margin.
Trump's strength also came from winning 81% of the White vote, which constituted 69% of the electorate. As is the case in many Southern states, there was a stark racial divide in voting for this election: 82% of White Mississippi voters supported Trump, while 93% of Black Mississippi voters supported Biden.
Mississippi legislators diluted the power of Black voters by drawing too few majority-Black state House and Senate districts after the most recent Census, an attorney representing the NAACP and ...