Yalobusha County, Mississippi

2024 results by precinct

12 precincts · 5,878 votes cast

Trump · R+21

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−20.9%	2,289	3,518	5,878
2020	R	−13.6%	2,785	3,671	6,535
2016	R	−13.1%	2,582	3,376	6,077
2012	R	−3.9%	3,030	3,276	6,354
2008	R	−7.0%	3,151	3,628	6,826
2004	R	−10.4%	2,656	3,278	5,972
2000	D	+3.9%	2,674	2,470	5,228
1996	D	+16.1%	2,437	1,711	4,498
1992	D	+8.3%	2,617	2,179	5,248
1988	R	−5.1%	2,402	2,660	5,093
1984	R	−11.3%	2,337	2,934	5,285
1980	D	+20.9%	3,432	2,224	5,783
1976	D	+17.7%	2,603	1,808	4,503
1972	R	−56.5%	797	2,944	3,797
1968	D	+7.5%	873	562	4,160
1964	R	−80.4%	259	2,385	2,644
1960	D	+5.3%	650	549	1,903
1956	D	+35.4%	1,015	414	1,696
1952	D	+28.3%	1,346	753	2,099
1948	D	+5.5%	135	49	1,568
1944	D	+88.4%	1,582	97	1,679
1940	D	+93.8%	1,555	50	1,605
1936	D	+96.2%	1,350	25	1,377
1932	D	+94.6%	1,536	39	1,583
1928	D	+71.9%	1,249	204	1,453
1924	D	+91.4%	1,292	53	1,356
1920	D	+82.3%	892	82	984
1916	D	+91.5%	1,175	49	1,230
1912	D	+88.8%	788	22	863
1908	—	No data	—	—	—
1904	—	No data	—	—	—
1900	D	+84.9%	931	68	1,016
1896	D	+85.5%	1,110	73	1,213
1892	D	+73.8%	715	12	953
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

29.6%

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: 42.6 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.6%

85+

0.9%

3.1%

75–84

4.1%

6.0%

65–74

7.2%

6.6%

55–64

7.4%

6.1%

45–54

5.4%

6.1%

35–44

6.3%

5.1%

25–34

6.0%

3.2%

18–24

4.0%

8.2%

5–17

7.9%

3.0%

2.8%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$49,151

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

Yalobusha County$49,151

Mississippi$56,447

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

21.5%

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

77.1%

Methodist

10.0%

Other Christian

4.8%

Pentecostal & Holiness

2.4%

Mainline Protestant

0.7%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 5.0% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Yalobusha sits at the northeastern fringe of the Mississippi Delta, with a population under 14,000 split between small towns like Water Valley and Coffeeville. The 2024 presidential margin of R+20.9 continues a decade-long rightward drift in this historically competitive corner of north-central Mississippi.

The shift began with civil rights. 2004 marked the realignment in Yalobusha County, by a ten points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at eighty points in 1964. The 2024 margin was twenty-one points.

The political shift has tracked, in Yalobusha County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 58% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $49,151, and a 22% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Choctaw County and Natchitoches Parish.

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