- Lead
- 1,480
- Total
- 9,564
- vs nation
- D+16.9
Mississippi 30th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,199
- Total
- 11,160
- vs nation
- D+15.2
- Lead
- 2,259
- Total
- 11,234
- vs nation
- D+18.0
- Lead
- 3,509
- Total
- 12,542
- vs nation
- D+24.1
- Lead
- 3,076
- Total
- 12,878
- vs nation
- D+16.6
- Lead
- 1,823
- Total
- 11,423
- vs nation
- D+18.4
- Lead
- 1,827
- Total
- 10,379
- vs nation
- D+17.1
- Lead
- 2,918
- Total
- 9,871
- vs nation
- D+21.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+15.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 24,8712024 5-year
- Population density
- 31 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 810 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $36,8552024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 32.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 63.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+99.1 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+84.8 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 85, MS · twin score 96.6
presidential history
Party record book
Mississippi 30th 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. Roosevelt1936
99.5%
2,570 votes · D+99.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 99.2%
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
92.4%
4,590 votes · R+84.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 71.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
7,990votes
63.7% of the vote · D+28.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 7,938 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
5,353votes
71.5% of the vote · R+46.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 4,909 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
+122.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+97.4 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +117.8 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+107.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+84.8 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · +22.8 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.
Mississippi House District 30 leans heavily Democratic in presidential contests, reflecting a dense urban electorate that has delivered double-digit margins consistently. Its compact geography within the Jackson metro shapes both its demographic profile and its voting patterns.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 99.1 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 84.8 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 15.5 points.
A population of 24,871, a 33% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $36,855 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 85 and State House District 126.
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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