- Lead
- 2,379
- Total
- 12,387
- vs nation
- R+17.7
Mississippi 56th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,219
- Total
- 12,731
- vs nation
- R+21.9
- Lead
- 3,158
- Total
- 11,365
- vs nation
- R+29.9
- Lead
- 3,658
- Total
- 12,345
- vs nation
- R+33.5
- Lead
- 4,277
- Total
- 12,822
- vs nation
- R+40.6
- Lead
- 6,020
- Total
- 12,205
- vs nation
- R+46.9
- Lead
- 6,254
- Total
- 11,853
- vs nation
- R+53.3
- Lead
- 5,648
- Total
- 11,116
- vs nation
- R+59.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+19.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 25,3302024 5-year
- Population density
- 205 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 124 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $94,0362024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 67.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 23.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+81.4 in 1940MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+93.9 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 27, SC · twin score 94.5
presidential history
Party record book
Mississippi 56th 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. Roosevelt1940
85.5%
515 votes · D+81.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 84.3%
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
97.0%
7,483 votes · R+93.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 91.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
5,147votes
40.4% of the vote · R+17.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 4,913 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
11,907votes
83.0% of the vote · R+67.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · 11,233 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
James M. Cox1920
+79.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+53.1 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +78.5 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+116.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+93.9 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Gerald Ford, 1976 · +72.3 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.
The district recorded a Republican presidential margin of R+19.2 in 2024, compared with R+33.4 in 2008. No racial group formed a majority of its residents in the 2024 ACS 5-year, with Black residents at 55.9%.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 81.4 points in 1940 and a Republican high of 93.9 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 19.2 points.
A population of 25,330, a 67% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $94,036 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 27 and State House District 96.
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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