- Lead
- 4,267
- Total
- 11,346
- vs nation
- R+36.1
Mississippi 46th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,088
- Total
- 12,588
- vs nation
- R+36.9
- Lead
- 4,026
- Total
- 12,248
- vs nation
- R+35.0
- Lead
- 3,559
- Total
- 13,509
- vs nation
- R+30.2
- Lead
- 3,896
- Total
- 13,763
- vs nation
- R+35.6
- Lead
- 4,049
- Total
- 13,364
- vs nation
- R+27.8
- Lead
- 3,612
- Total
- 11,998
- vs nation
- R+30.6
- Lead
- 2,231
- Total
- 11,191
- vs nation
- R+28.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+37.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 23,8732024 5-year
- Population density
- 21 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,153 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $52,5612024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 63.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 32.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 1.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+96.9 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+93.3 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 34, MS · twin score 96.5
presidential history
Party record book
Mississippi 46th 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
98.4%
2,465 votes · D+96.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 98.3%
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
96.7%
7,515 votes · R+93.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 82.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Jimmy Carter1980
5,020votes
40.9% of the vote · R+16.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 4,933 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
9,032votes
70.9% of the vote · R+42.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · 8,784 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
Alton B. Parker1904
+113.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+93.9 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Smith, 1928 · +103.6 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+115.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+93.3 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · +42.8 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.
With a 2024 presidential margin of R+37.6, this district of roughly 24,000 residents sits well outside competitive territory, making party primaries the stage where electoral outcomes are effectively decided.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 96.9 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 93.3 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 37.6 points.
A population of 23,873, a 64% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $52,561 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 34 and State House District 10.
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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