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1876–2024
Adams County, Mississippi
Adams County·Mississippi

Adams County has voted Democratic for as long as anyone can remember.

A majority-Black county where Natchez anchors the Delta's historic river trade

18762024·38 elections
Adams County, Mississippi · Billy Hathorn · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
D+14
in 2024
Archetype
Democratic loyalist
since the recent cycles
Population
28,803
2024 ACS
Most similar
Thurston County
WA · similarity 0.98
19 precincts · 11,928 votes cast
Harris · D+14
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024D
+13.9%
6,7435,08111,928
2020D
+16.1%
7,9175,69613,759
2016D
+13.6%
7,7575,87413,836
2012D
+17.9%
9,0616,29315,447
2008D
+15.6%
9,0216,56615,696
2004D
+9.2%
8,4236,99615,479
2000D
+9.2%
8,0656,69114,879
1996D
+19.7%
8,2185,37814,421
1992D
+15.3%
8,2555,83115,877
1988R
−2.4%
7,7328,11615,994
1984R
−9.2%
7,8499,44017,378
1980R
−1.9%
7,2287,52315,363
1976D
+1.4%
6,6196,43113,861
1972R
−37.9%
3,6978,50012,657
1968D
+27.7%
5,2141,47513,501
1964R
−68.7%
1,0935,9006,993
1960D
+4.3%
1,4521,2275,205
1956R
−9.4%
1,2791,6644,094
1952R
−16.6%
1,6972,3724,069
1948R
−1.1%
71952,200
1944D
+70.6%
1,6382821,920
1940D
+83.6%
1,8691662,036
1936D
+86.5%
1,7321241,860
1932D
+57.0%
1,4203841,819
1928D
+22.8%
1,3378402,177
1924D
+46.0%
8363041,156
1920D
+69.6%
642114759
1916D
+88.1%
67142714
1912D
+60.3%
49131763
1908
No data
1904
No data
1900D
+62.1%
500113623
1896D
+46.6%
507174715
1892D
+67.6%
47482580
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
1.0%
African American
44.8%
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.
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
55.3%
Methodist
7.9%
Other Christian
7.7%
Pentecostal & Holiness
7.0%
Catholic & Orthodox
5.2%
Mainline Protestant
2.5%
Non-Christian
0.6%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 13.8% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Adams County, home to Natchez, carries one of Mississippi's highest shares of Black residents—roughly 70%—which consistently produces Democratic margins in a state that trends heavily Republican statewide.

The Democratic margin in Adams County reached its widest at eighty-eight points in 1916. The margin in 2024 was fourteen points — still decisive.

Adams County's loyalty is rooted in its place. Median household income of $43,644, a 38% non-Hispanic-white share, and a population of 28,803 together describe a community whose political habits are deeply settled. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Thurston County and Pierce County.