Scott County, Mississippi

2024 results by precinct

23 precincts · 9,891 votes cast

Trump · R+24

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−24.0%	3,729	6,098	9,891
2020	R	−18.2%	4,330	6,285	10,733
2016	R	−17.6%	4,268	6,122	10,522
2012	R	−9.4%	5,031	6,089	11,202
2008	R	−13.4%	5,025	6,584	11,671
2004	R	−25.4%	3,802	6,395	10,228
2000	R	−22.3%	3,548	5,601	9,206
1996	R	−11.2%	3,163	4,018	7,664
1992	R	−20.6%	3,349	5,268	9,329
1988	R	−30.4%	2,939	5,522	8,488
1984	R	−27.5%	3,274	5,763	9,053
1980	R	−6.8%	4,043	4,645	8,832
1976	R	−0.1%	3,643	3,649	7,468
1972	R	−61.5%	1,213	5,244	6,559
1968	D	+6.8%	1,067	604	6,764
1964	R	−90.4%	238	4,729	4,967
1960	D	+12.0%	1,024	607	3,472
1956	D	+49.6%	2,077	503	3,171
1952	D	+32.6%	2,208	1,123	3,331
1948	D	+6.1%	170	15	2,526
1944	D	+94.6%	2,165	60	2,225
1940	D	+97.5%	2,377	30	2,407
1936	D	+96.9%	2,097	33	2,131
1932	D	+97.8%	1,537	17	1,554
1928	D	+85.2%	2,050	164	2,214
1924	D	+85.2%	1,179	53	1,322
1920	D	+86.9%	1,055	64	1,141
1916	D	+94.1%	1,106	25	1,149
1912	D	+96.4%	722	7	742
1908	—	No data	—	—	—
1904	—	No data	—	—	—
1900	D	+92.0%	659	17	698
1896	D	+93.1%	780	23	813
1892	D	+77.4%	487	0	629
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

27.0%

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: 35.9 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.3%

85+

1.0%

2.6%

75–84

2.7%

4.1%

65–74

5.2%

5.7%

55–64

6.4%

5.8%

45–54

6.0%

5.3%

35–44

6.3%

6.9%

25–34

5.6%

4.0%

18–24

3.9%

10.7%

5–17

9.2%

4.6%

3.6%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$48,786

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

Scott County$48,786

Mississippi$56,447

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

22.2%

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

49.9%

Methodist

7.4%

Other Christian

4.6%

Pentecostal & Holiness

3.1%

Catholic & Orthodox

0.4%

Mainline Protestant

0.3%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 34.3% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Scott County sits in Mississippi's Piney Woods region, where forestry and chicken-processing plants form the employment base. Its 2024 presidential margin of R+23.9 reflects a rural electorate that has shifted steadily rightward over the past two decades.

The shift began with civil rights. 1972 marked the realignment in Scott County, by a sixty-one points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at ninety points in 1964. The 2024 margin was twenty-four points.

The political shift has tracked, in Scott County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 47% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $48,786, and a 22% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Mobile County and Richmond County.

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