Lincoln County, Mississippi

2024 results by precinct

30 precincts · 15,802 votes cast

Trump · R+45

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−45.4%	4,262	11,432	15,802
2020	R	−39.0%	5,040	11,596	16,801
2016	R	−40.1%	4,458	10,550	15,193
2012	R	−32.7%	5,471	10,839	16,414
2008	R	−32.2%	5,505	10,781	16,402
2004	R	−38.6%	4,418	10,008	14,496
2000	R	−32.2%	4,358	8,540	13,000
1996	R	−15.1%	4,294	5,960	11,067
1992	R	−17.5%	4,744	7,040	13,091
1988	R	−31.4%	4,534	8,710	13,297
1984	R	−33.2%	4,458	8,898	13,381
1980	R	−16.4%	5,213	7,286	12,610
1976	R	−19.6%	4,043	6,084	10,392
1972	R	−73.9%	1,070	7,593	8,828
1968	D	+5.3%	1,585	1,057	9,918
1964	R	−87.8%	437	6,750	7,187
1960	D	+4.1%	1,449	1,251	4,885
1956	D	+29.0%	1,942	848	3,773
1952	D	+5.7%	2,271	2,028	4,299
1948	D	+0.4%	52	40	3,177
1944	D	+91.9%	2,445	103	2,548
1940	D	+91.6%	2,332	97	2,440
1936	D	+93.8%	2,465	74	2,549
1932	D	+92.3%	2,379	92	2,479
1928	D	+67.7%	2,191	422	2,613
1924	D	+74.8%	1,278	154	1,502
1920	D	+29.2%	774	421	1,208
1916	D	+83.7%	1,282	105	1,407
1912	D	+78.6%	768	41	925
1908	—	No data	—	—	—
1904	—	No data	—	—	—
1900	D	+39.7%	530	225	768
1896	D	+72.8%	954	134	1,127
1892	D	+60.8%	454	36	687
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

2.2%

African American

24.0%

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: 41.5 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.6%

85+

0.6%

2.1%

75–84

3.6%

5.0%

65–74

5.9%

6.2%

55–64

7.2%

6.5%

45–54

6.8%

5.9%

35–44

6.6%

5.9%

25–34

6.3%

3.9%

18–24

3.8%

9.2%

5–17

8.3%

2.9%

2.7%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$51,119

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

Lincoln County$51,119

Mississippi$56,447

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

21.2%

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

49.5%

Other Christian

8.2%

Methodist

5.9%

Pentecostal & Holiness

1.9%

Catholic & Orthodox

1.5%

Mainline Protestant

1.4%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 31.6% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Lincoln County has voted Republican in presidential races by wide margins for over two decades, reflecting the broader realignment of rural, majority-white Mississippi counties away from their historically Democratic roots.

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

The political shift has tracked, in Lincoln County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 68% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $51,119, and a 21% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Perry County and Wayne County.

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