- Lead
- 713
- Total
- 7,942
- vs nation
- R+7.5
Mississippi 43rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 266
- Total
- 8,626
- vs nation
- R+7.5
- Lead
- 892
- Total
- 7,749
- vs nation
- R+13.6
- Lead
- 907
- Total
- 7,689
- vs nation
- R+15.7
- Lead
- 1,089
- Total
- 7,998
- vs nation
- R+20.9
- Lead
- 1,813
- Total
- 7,054
- vs nation
- R+23.2
- Lead
- 1,468
- Total
- 6,416
- vs nation
- R+23.4
- Lead
- 804
- Total
- 5,403
- vs nation
- R+23.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+9.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 24,6912024 5-year
- Population density
- 314 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 78.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $57,9942024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 73.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 17.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+96.3 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+85.6 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 63, AL · twin score 86.8
presidential history
Party record book
Mississippi 43rd 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
98.1%
629 votes · D+96.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 97.1%
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
92.8%
1,832 votes · R+85.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 79.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
4,055votes
47.0% of the vote · R+3.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 3,542 votes
Republican
John McCain2008
4,505votes
56.3% of the vote · R+13.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 4,383 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
+114.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+88.8 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +109.3 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+108.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+85.6 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · +38.3 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.
Its 2024 presidential margin of R+9.0 ranked among Mississippi's closest, against R+13.6 in 2008. About 8,860 residents lived here, with White alone at 55.3% in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 96.3 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 85.6 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 9.0 points.
A population of 24,691, a 73% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $57,994 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 63 and State House District 3.
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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