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1876–2024
Madison County, Mississippi
Madison County·Mississippi

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

A fast-growing suburb that still swings decisively Republican

18762024·38 elections
Madison County, Mississippi · Calvin Beale · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+17
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
111,647
2024 ACS
Most similar
Seward County
KS · similarity 0.99
44 precincts · 55,935 votes cast
Trump · R+17
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−17.2%
22,70032,33355,935
2020R
−11.8%
24,44031,09156,361
2016R
−15.8%
20,34328,26550,131
2012R
−15.7%
20,72228,50749,571
2008R
−15.6%
19,83127,20347,269
2004R
−29.1%
13,26824,25737,728
2000R
−29.1%
10,41619,10929,859
1996R
−20.7%
9,35414,46724,688
1992R
−14.4%
9,38612,81023,721
1988R
−15.9%
8,24211,39919,825
1984R
−7.4%
8,0029,29817,463
1980D
+11.4%
7,6216,02414,039
1976D
+12.4%
6,2404,83811,316
1972R
−17.9%
3,4645,0478,824
1968D
+38.5%
4,5158769,462
1964R
−85.8%
2513,2833,534
1960D
+8.0%
7535252,861
1956D
+25.8%
9963772,395
1952R
−2.4%
1,4251,4962,921
1948D
+1.5%
81511,965
1944D
+89.7%
1,9211042,025
1940D
+93.7%
2,038662,104
1936D
+96.5%
1,838321,871
1932D
+92.8%
1,474511,533
1928D
+84.9%
1,5191241,643
1924D
+87.2%
1,5981091,707
1920D
+86.4%
83157896
1916D
+88.8%
78236840
1912D
+88.9%
66311733
1908
No data
1904
No data
1900D
+81.2%
66367734
1896D
+82.0%
76366850
1892D
+92.7%
6958741
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
0.6%
English
0.5%
African American
29.7%
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
27.7%
Other Christian
12.3%
Methodist
10.6%
Catholic & Orthodox
4.6%
Mainline Protestant
4.5%
Pentecostal & Holiness
1.5%
Non-Christian
0.5%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 38.3% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Madison County sits just north of Jackson and has absorbed decades of suburban migration, producing one of Mississippi's wealthiest and fastest-growing populations while maintaining a consistent Republican lean at the presidential level.

The shift began with civil rights. 1984 marked the realignment in Madison County, by a seven points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at eighty-six points in 1964. The 2024 margin was seventeen points.

The political shift has tracked, in Madison County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 55% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $83,441, and a 11% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Seward County and Wrangell City and Borough.