- Lead
- 6,260
- Total
- 8,495
- vs nation
- D+75.2
Mississippi 65th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 7,360
- Total
- 9,948
- vs nation
- D+69.5
- Lead
- 6,371
- Total
- 9,433
- vs nation
- D+65.4
- Lead
- 7,125
- Total
- 10,563
- vs nation
- D+63.6
- Lead
- 6,849
- Total
- 10,650
- vs nation
- D+57.0
- Lead
- 4,215
- Total
- 8,533
- vs nation
- D+51.9
- Lead
- 3,255
- Total
- 7,851
- vs nation
- D+40.9
- Lead
- 3,182
- Total
- 7,627
- vs nation
- D+33.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+73.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 24,0202024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,290 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 7.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $43,7242024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 15.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 79.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+97.3 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+55.9 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 3, LA · twin score 98.4
presidential history
Party record book
Mississippi 65th 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
98.6%
1,007 votes · D+97.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · 98.0%
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
78.0%
2,102 votes · R+55.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 63.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
8,792votes
83.2% of the vote · D+67.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 8,699 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
3,213votes
38.9% of the vote · D+20.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · 2,956 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
+120.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+94.0 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +118.2 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+78.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+55.9 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · +7.0 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.
Anchored in the Mississippi Delta, this 24,000-person district backed the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee by nearly 14 points, reflecting the region's dense concentration of Black voters and its long alignment with the Democratic column in federal races.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 97.3 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 55.9 points in 1964. The 2024 margin was 73.7 points.
A population of 24,020, a 15% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $43,724 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 3 and State House District 72.
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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