- Lead
- 5,710
- Total
- 12,499
- vs nation
- R+44.2
Mississippi 59th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,764
- Total
- 12,695
- vs nation
- R+49.9
- Lead
- 6,434
- Total
- 11,427
- vs nation
- R+58.4
- Lead
- 6,526
- Total
- 11,610
- vs nation
- R+60.1
- Lead
- 6,570
- Total
- 11,430
- vs nation
- R+64.8
- Lead
- 6,170
- Total
- 9,924
- vs nation
- R+59.7
- Lead
- 4,796
- Total
- 7,479
- vs nation
- R+64.6
- Lead
- 3,155
- Total
- 6,475
- vs nation
- R+57.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+45.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 25,4472024 5-year
- Population density
- 968 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 26.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $104,1672024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 76.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 13.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+94.6 in 1940MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+91.6 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 74, MS · twin score 97.9
presidential history
Party record book
Mississippi 59th 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
Woodrow Wilson1916
95.9%
188 votes · D+94.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 95.9%
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
95.8%
1,399 votes · R+91.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 85.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
3,349votes
26.4% of the vote · R+45.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 3,310 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
9,113votes
71.8% of the vote · R+45.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 9,020 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
+115.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+90.7 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +109.7 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+114.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+91.6 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · +64.8 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 59th State House District sits in the Deep South. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 94.6 points in 1940 and a Republican high of 91.6 points in 1964. The 2024 margin was 45.7 points.
A population of 25,447, a 76% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $104,167 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 74 and State House District 45.
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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