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Last updated: Oct. 19, 2024
Thousands of general elections are taking place across the United States on Nov. 5, 2024. Those elections include offices at the federal, state, and local levels. This is one of 50 pages in which Ballotpedia previews the elections happening in each state as part of the Daily Brew’s 50 states in 25 days series.
This page provides an overview of all elections happening in Mississippi within our coverage scope on Nov. 5, 2024. Those elections include offices for one U.S. Senator, four U.S. Representatives, four Mississippi Supreme Court justices, and three Mississippi intermediate appellate court judges.
On this page, you will also find information regarding:
- How to vote in Mississippi
- The elected offices that Mississippi voters can expect to see on their ballots
- The races in Mississippi that Ballotpedia is covering as battlegrounds
- The ballot measures that voters in Mississippi will decide on
- Ballotpedia's Sample Ballot Lookup Tool
- The partisan balance of Mississippi's congressional delegation and state government
- Past presidential election results in Mississippi
- The candidates who are on the ballot in Mississippi
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Mississippi
What's on the ballot?
2024 elections
- See also: Mississippi elections, 2024
Mississippi voters will election one U.S. Senator and four U.S. Representatives. All five incumbents are running for re-election.
Four seats on the Mississippi Supreme Court and three on the Mississippi Court of Appeals are up for nonpartisan election. One seat on the court of appeals is open.
There are five seats on the DeSoto County School District up for election. The district that the board represents is part of the 475 school districts included in Ballotpedia's coverage of school board elections, which includes the nation's largest school districts and all school districts in the nation's largest cities.
Below is a list of Mississippi elections covered by Ballotpedia in 2024. Click the links to learn more about each type:
| Mississippi elections, 2024 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Office | Elections? | More information |
| U.S. Senate | ✓ | Click here |
| U.S. House | ✓ | Click here |
| Congress special election | — | — |
| Governor | — | — |
| Other state executive | — | — |
| State Senate | — | — |
| State House | — | — |
| Special state legislative | — | — |
| State Supreme Court | ✓ | Click here |
| Intermediate appellate courts | ✓ | Click here |
| School boards | ✓ | Click here |
| Municipal government | ✓ | Click here |
| Recalls | — | — |
| Ballot measures | — | — |
| Local ballot measures | — | — |
Legend: ✓ election(s) / — no elections
Subject to Ballotpedia's scope
Your ballot
- See also: Sample Ballot Lookup
Noteworthy elections
As of Oct. 19, 2024, Ballotpedia has not highlighted any elections in Mississippi
Ballot measures
- See also: Mississippi 2024 ballot measures
There are no statewide ballot measures on the ballot in Mississippi.
There were 41 ballot measures on the ballot in Mississippi from 1985 to 2020. Voters approved 32 measures and defeated eight.
State analysis
Partisan balance
A Democrat represents one districts and Republicans represent three districts in Mississippi's U.S. House delegation. In the U.S. House, Republicans have a 220-212 majority with three vacancies.
Both of Mississippi's U.S. Senators—Cindy Hyde-Smith and Roger Wicker—are Republicans. Democrats have a majority in the U.S. Senate. There are 47 Democrats, 49 Republicans, and four independents. Three independents caucus with the Democratic Party, and one other counts towards the Democratic majority for committee purposes.
Republicans have a 36-16 majority in the state Senate and a 79-41 majority with two independent members in the state House. Republicans have had a majority in the state Senate and state House since 2011.
Because the governor is a Republican, Mississippi is one of 23 states with a Republican trifecta. It has held this status since 2012.
Mississippi's attorney general and secretary of state are also Republicans. This makes Mississippi one of 25 states with a Republican triplex.
Past presidential election results in Mississippi
How a state's counties vote in a presidential election and the size of those counties can provide additional insights into election outcomes at other levels of government including statewide and congressional races. Below, four categories are used to describe each county's voting pattern over the 2012, 2016, and 2020 presidential elections: Solid, Trending, Battleground, and New. Click [show] on the table below for examples:
| County-level voting pattern categories | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Democratic | D | D | D | ||||
| Trending Democratic | R | D | D | ||||
| Battleground Democratic | D | R | D | ||||
| New Democratic | R | R | D | ||||
| Republican | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Republican | R | R | R | ||||
| Trending Republican | D | R | R | ||||
| Battleground Republican | R | D | R | ||||
| New Republican | D | D | R | ||||
Following the 2020 presidential election, 71.6% of Mississippians lived in one of the state's 51 Solid Republican counties, which voted for the Republican presidential candidate in every election from 2012 to 2020, and 25.0% lived in one of 27 Solid Democratic counties. Overall, Mississippi was Solid Republican, having voted for Mitt Romney (R) in 2012, Donald Trump (R) in 2016, and Donald Trump (R) in 2020. Use the table below to view the total number of each type of county in Mississippi following the 2020 election as well as the overall percentage of the state population located in each county type.
| Mississippi county-level statistics, 2020 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solid Republican | 51 | 71.6% | |||||
| Solid Democratic | 27 | 25.0% | |||||
| Trending Republican | 3 | 2.0% | |||||
| Battleground Democratic | 1 | 1.5% | |||||
| Total voted Democratic | 28 | 26.5% | |||||
| Total voted Republican | 54 | 73.5% | |||||
List of candidates
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= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
| candidate | office | party | status |
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= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
| candidate | office | party | status |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Jackson City Council Ward 2 (Special election) | Unaffiliated | Won General Runoff |
Jackson City Council Ward 2 (Special election) | Unaffiliated | Lost General Runoff | |
 | Jackson City Council Ward 2 (Special election) | Unaffiliated | Lost General |
Jackson City Council Ward 2 (Special election) | Unaffiliated | Lost General | |
Jackson City Council Ward 2 (Special election) | Unaffiliated | Lost General | |
 | Jackson City Council Ward 2 (Special election) | Unaffiliated | Lost General |
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= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
See also
Footnotes
