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1876–2024
Jackson County, Mississippi
Jackson County·Mississippi

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

Gulf Coast county where Republicans carried every precinct in 2024

18762024·38 elections
Jackson County, Mississippi · Chris Pruitt · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+40
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
145,249
2024 ACS
Most similar
Augusta County
VA · similarity 1.00
31 precincts · 52,497 votes cast
Trump · R+40
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−39.8%
15,46936,37652,497
2020R
−34.7%
17,37536,29554,543
2016R
−38.3%
14,65733,62949,567
2012R
−34.4%
17,29935,74753,655
2008R
−33.5%
17,78135,99354,296
2004R
−38.3%
15,57235,13451,075
2000R
−35.2%
14,19330,06845,107
1996R
−27.2%
13,59824,91841,625
1992R
−27.4%
13,01725,32144,930
1988R
−48.3%
10,32829,83040,364
1984R
−53.9%
8,82129,58538,529
1980R
−28.6%
12,22622,49835,958
1976R
−14.9%
12,53317,17731,082
1972R
−78.6%
2,53422,20425,038
1968R
−3.5%
2,2362,94220,439
1964R
−65.5%
2,37111,35713,728
1960D
+29.8%
5,0002,2669,174
1956D
+17.2%
3,8822,6926,906
1952D
+31.3%
4,1462,1706,316
1948D
+14.7%
7832383,713
1944D
+85.0%
2,6362132,849
1940D
+84.9%
2,1241712,300
1936D
+86.5%
1,7041201,831
1932D
+85.2%
1,6341261,770
1928D
+38.0%
1,2615671,828
1924D
+72.8%
1,0101581,170
1920D
+65.0%
577121702
1916D
+77.0%
74387852
1912D
+81.6%
51414613
1908
No data
1904
No data
1900D
+43.4%
425166597
1896D
+54.7%
723181991
1892D
+86.9%
45316503
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%
Polish
1.4%
African American
15.2%
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
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.
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
19.3%
Other Christian
11.2%
Catholic & Orthodox
5.8%
Pentecostal & Holiness
5.6%
Methodist
5.3%
Mainline Protestant
1.2%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 51.6% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Anchored by Pascagoula's shipbuilding economy and a largely white coastal population, Jackson County has shifted steadily rightward over two decades, landing at an R+39.9 margin in 2024 — one of the widest gaps on Mississippi's coast.

The shift began with civil rights. 1964 marked the realignment in Jackson County, by a sixty-five points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at seventy-nine points in 1972. The 2024 margin was forty points.

The political shift has tracked, in Jackson County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 67% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $66,201, and a 14% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Augusta County and Houston County.