- Lead
- 8,592
- Total
- 14,354
- vs nation
- R+58.4
Mississippi 28th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 7,820
- Total
- 13,007
- vs nation
- R+64.6
- Lead
- 6,430
- Total
- 10,597
- vs nation
- R+62.8
- Lead
- 6,458
- Total
- 10,463
- vs nation
- R+65.6
- Lead
- 6,724
- Total
- 10,448
- vs nation
- R+71.6
- Lead
- 5,748
- Total
- 8,301
- vs nation
- R+66.8
- Lead
- 3,957
- Total
- 5,729
- vs nation
- R+69.6
- Lead
- 2,524
- Total
- 5,213
- vs nation
- R+56.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+59.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 25,1612024 5-year
- Population density
- 238 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 106 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $96,3022024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 81.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 9.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+91.1 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+87.5 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 20, OK · twin score 98.0
presidential history
Party record book
Mississippi 28th State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
95.5%
107 votes · D+91.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 94.6%
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
93.8%
557 votes · R+87.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 91.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
2,758votes
19.2% of the vote · R+59.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 2,483 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
11,350votes
79.1% of the vote · R+59.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 10,303 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
John W. Davis1924
+112.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+86.8 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +105.9 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+110.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+87.5 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · +71.6 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
With a 2024 presidential margin exceeding R+59, this district ranks among the most reliably conservative in the state, suggesting that competitive general elections at the state house level are rare here.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 91.1 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 87.5 points in 1964. The 2024 margin was 59.9 points.
A population of 25,161, a 82% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $96,302 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 20 and State House District 15.
The state-house districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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Mississippi 28th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/28028/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.