Winston County, Mississippi

2024 results by precinct

12 precincts · 8,384 votes cast

Trump · R+18

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−18.2%	3,392	4,922	8,384
2020	R	−11.6%	4,040	5,112	9,236
2016	R	−11.9%	3,850	4,910	8,881
2012	R	−5.7%	4,607	5,168	9,829
2008	R	−8.3%	4,653	5,497	10,221
2004	R	−15.0%	3,978	5,386	9,415
2000	R	−11.6%	3,672	4,645	8,368
1996	R	−0.1%	3,488	3,498	7,438
1992	R	−4.0%	3,953	4,311	8,968
1988	R	−15.9%	3,851	5,317	9,229
1984	R	−18.9%	3,543	5,192	8,746
1980	D	+4.9%	4,416	3,998	8,545
1976	D	+3.8%	3,956	3,659	7,792
1972	R	−58.0%	1,354	5,155	6,555
1968	D	+6.7%	911	508	6,054
1964	R	−88.6%	237	3,922	4,159
1960	D	+21.9%	1,056	405	2,966
1956	D	+65.5%	2,132	361	2,705
1952	D	+53.7%	2,559	771	3,330
1948	D	+9.8%	240	33	2,105
1944	D	+94.6%	1,822	51	1,873
1940	D	+97.4%	1,979	26	2,005
1936	D	+98.2%	2,418	21	2,440
1932	D	+98.4%	1,720	12	1,736
1928	D	+88.7%	1,620	97	1,717
1924	D	+92.4%	1,344	53	1,397
1920	D	+77.1%	932	113	1,062
1916	D	+90.1%	1,152	47	1,226
1912	D	+89.3%	743	9	822
1908	—	No data	—	—	—
1904	—	No data	—	—	—
1900	D	+81.7%	597	42	679
1896	D	+90.8%	793	32	838
1892	D	+59.1%	357	4	597
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

37.7%

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: 42.8 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

1.2%

85+

1.1%

2.8%

75–84

4.1%

5.9%

65–74

6.6%

6.4%

55–64

6.8%

5.2%

45–54

6.3%

6.8%

35–44

6.1%

5.3%

25–34

4.9%

4.2%

18–24

4.1%

8.4%

5–17

8.3%

2.8%

2.6%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$53,031

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

Winston County$53,031

Mississippi$56,447

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

26.9%

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

46.2%

Methodist

10.6%

Other Christian

6.0%

Pentecostal & Holiness

4.3%

Mainline Protestant

1.9%

Catholic & Orthodox

0.3%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 30.7% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Winston County sits in east-central Mississippi's piney-woods belt, where a declining manufacturing base and a population that has shrunk roughly 15% since 2000 have reshaped the electorate even as presidential margins continue to widen on the Republican side.

The shift began with civil rights. 1984 marked the realignment in Winston County, by a nineteen points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at eighty-nine points in 1964. The 2024 margin was eighteen points.

The political shift has tracked, in Winston County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 50% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $53,031, and a 27% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Leake County and Grenada County.

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