Attala County, Mississippi

2024 results by precinct

20 precincts · 7,703 votes cast

Trump · R+23

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−23.3%	2,930	4,723	7,703
2020	R	−18.5%	3,542	5,178	8,823
2016	R	−20.0%	3,242	4,897	8,256
2012	R	−13.2%	3,927	5,126	9,092
2008	R	−15.5%	3,849	5,273	9,183
2004	R	−22.8%	3,145	5,014	8,207
2000	R	−17.9%	2,922	4,206	7,173
1996	R	−0.6%	3,092	3,130	6,612
1992	R	−7.1%	3,015	3,520	7,087
1988	R	−20.2%	2,997	4,524	7,556
1984	R	−18.8%	3,327	4,870	8,215
1980	D	+1.7%	4,117	3,975	8,214
1976	D	+12.4%	4,068	3,146	7,423
1972	R	−61.0%	1,103	4,738	5,960
1968	D	+14.2%	1,588	599	6,963
1964	R	−88.7%	263	4,409	4,672
1960	D	+21.0%	1,337	650	3,268
1956	D	+50.7%	1,793	445	2,658
1952	D	+31.4%	2,258	1,178	3,436
1948	D	+4.0%	130	32	2,467
1944	D	+92.3%	2,187	87	2,274
1940	D	+93.7%	2,049	63	2,120
1936	D	+95.9%	1,855	36	1,897
1932	D	+96.4%	2,370	38	2,419
1928	D	+90.5%	2,258	113	2,371
1924	D	+83.9%	1,600	119	1,766
1920	D	+62.0%	1,187	270	1,478
1916	D	+82.4%	1,267	110	1,404
1912	D	+83.1%	1,060	49	1,216
1908	—	No data	—	—	—
1904	—	No data	—	—	—
1900	D	+77.6%	1,111	122	1,274
1896	D	+76.7%	1,307	164	1,490
1892	D	+57.3%	756	13	1,297
1888	—	No data	—	—	—
1884	—	No data	—	—	—
1880	—	No data	—	—	—
1876	—	No data	—	—	—

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.

American

100.0%

African American

35.4%

Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.

Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.

American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 39.4 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.8%

85+

1.1%

2.6%

75–84

3.8%

5.1%

65–74

6.1%

55–64

6.6%

5.3%

45–54

6.0%

35–44

6.3%

5.0%

25–34

5.5%

4.4%

18–24

4.2%

8.9%

5–17

10.4%

3.3%

2.6%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$51,639

Attala County ranks in the bottom 25% of US counties.

Attala County$51,639

Mississippi$56,447

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

18.0%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1818.0%

Working age (18–64)100.0%

Seniors (65+)18.0%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Language at home

Population aged 5 and older

0.0%

speak English only

Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.

Religious adherents

Adherents per capita by tradition

Baptist

42.6%

Methodist

5.3%

Other Christian

3.5%

Pentecostal & Holiness

2.3%

Mainline Protestant

2.2%

Catholic & Orthodox

0.9%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 43.2% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Attala County sits in Mississippi's geographic center, where a predominantly rural economy and a population that has contracted roughly 15% since 1990 shape an electorate that now swings heavily in federal contests while local races stay more competitive.

The shift began with civil rights. 1984 marked the realignment in Attala County, by a nineteen points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at eighty-nine points in 1964. The 2024 margin was twenty-three points.

The political shift has tracked, in Attala County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 52% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $51,639, and a 18% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Hardin County and Isle of Wight County.

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Attala County voted Democratic for a century. The shift began with civil rights.