Pearl River County, Mississippi

2024 results by precinct

27 precincts · 24,701 votes cast

Trump · R+67

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−66.6%	3,982	20,438	24,701
2020	R	−64.3%	4,148	19,595	24,033
2016	R	−64.8%	3,604	17,782	21,883
2012	R	−59.3%	4,366	17,549	22,224
2008	R	−60.4%	4,320	17,881	22,443
2004	R	−53.5%	4,472	14,896	19,487
2000	R	−42.3%	4,611	11,575	16,477
1996	R	−23.1%	4,892	8,212	14,377
1992	R	−20.6%	4,683	7,726	14,797
1988	R	−43.8%	3,939	10,220	14,333
1984	R	−52.6%	3,085	9,978	13,112
1980	R	−14.8%	5,028	6,822	12,141
1976	D	+7.2%	5,024	4,332	9,665
1972	R	−77.4%	901	7,487	8,504
1968	R	−4.5%	926	1,298	8,274
1964	R	−69.0%	735	4,009	4,744
1960	D	+17.9%	1,276	651	3,483
1956	D	+5.1%	1,274	1,129	2,848
1952	D	+8.4%	2,060	1,741	3,801
1948	D	+4.7%	146	46	2,121
1944	D	+92.4%	2,131	84	2,215
1940	D	+91.3%	2,022	88	2,118
1936	D	+86.7%	1,156	81	1,240
1932	D	+86.9%	1,500	99	1,613
1928	R	−2.2%	879	918	1,797
1924	D	+61.8%	855	164	1,118
1920	D	+79.2%	464	53	519
1916	D	+87.3%	521	35	557
1912	D	+90.7%	290	7	312
1908	—	No data	—	—	—
1904	—	No data	—	—	—
1900	D	+65.6%	201	41	244
1896	D	+74.8%	266	34	310
1892	D	+94.4%	137	2	143
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

9.6%

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: 41.6 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.8%

85+

0.9%

2.7%

75–84

3.5%

5.5%

65–74

6.2%

6.8%

55–64

6.8%

6.3%

45–54

6.2%

5.7%

35–44

6.2%

5.5%

25–34

5.5%

4.4%

18–24

4.2%

8.7%

5–17

8.5%

3.0%

2.8%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$58,135

Pearl River County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Pearl River County$58,135

Mississippi$56,447

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

16.5%

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

40.6%

Other Christian

9.2%

Catholic & Orthodox

6.9%

Methodist

3.2%

Pentecostal & Holiness

2.6%

Mainline Protestant

0.4%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 37.1% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Pearl River County, anchored by Poplarville in the longleaf pine belt, recorded an R+66.7 margin in 2024 — among the widest in a state already known for sharp partisan geographic sorting.

The shift began with civil rights. 1980 marked the realignment in Pearl River County, by a fifteen points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at seventy-seven points in 1972. The 2024 margin was sixty-seven points.

The political shift has tracked, in Pearl River County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 80% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $58,135, and a 17% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Catoosa County and Baker County.

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