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State Senate; State House of Representatives; State delegation to the United States Senate; State delegation to the United States House of Representatives; For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
The Mississippi Democratic Party holds none of the eight statewide offices and is in the minority in both houses of the legislature. Mississippi Democrats hold one of the state's four U.S. House seats and none of the state's U.S. Senate seats and have not since 1989 when John C. Stennis left office.
Revels also served as Secretary of State of Mississippi from 1872 to 1873. [2] Blanche K. Bruce, also a Republican, was the 2nd African-American to serve in congress as a Mississippi Senator in 1875–1881. [3] After a biracial Populist-Republican coalition gained power in the late 1880s, the Democrats returned in force to the state government.
In the United States, 15 counties or county equivalents have never voted for the Democratic presidential nominee in their history, and 5 have never voted for the Republican nominee. [1] In recent decades, the number of electorally competitive counties has decreased, with most counties now consistently favoring one political party over the other ...
That theory is also illustrated by the fact that Trump won six Mississippi counties that went for Biden in 2020, including some in the Delta. Hyde-Smith throws cold water on Sec. of Agriculture rumors
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? Voting in Forrest, Lamar counties in Mississippi?
However, it is important to note that Washington D.C. (while not a state) has 3 electoral votes and 76% of residents identify as Democrats, while 6% identify as Republicans. Wyoming was the most Republican state, with 59% of residents identifying as Republicans, and only 25% of residents identifying as Democrats. [6]
However, when compared to the 2020 Presidential Election, he fell quite short of another third-most supported candidate, Libertarian Jo Jorgensen, who secured more than 8,000 votes in Mississippi.