- Lead
- 1,909
- Total
- 6,653
- vs nation
- D+30.2
Mississippi 68th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,663
- Total
- 7,639
- vs nation
- D+30.4
- Lead
- 2,892
- Total
- 7,584
- vs nation
- D+36.0
- Lead
- 3,408
- Total
- 8,080
- vs nation
- D+38.3
- Lead
- 3,296
- Total
- 7,944
- vs nation
- D+34.2
- Lead
- 1,986
- Total
- 6,331
- vs nation
- D+33.8
- Lead
- 1,700
- Total
- 5,228
- vs nation
- D+32.0
- Lead
- 2,133
- Total
- 4,825
- vs nation
- D+35.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+28.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 24,6232024 5-year
- Population density
- 571 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 43.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $44,0062024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 31.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 61.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+99.6 in 1916MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+26.5 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 17, LA · twin score 98.5
presidential history
Party record book
Mississippi 68th 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
99.7%
671 votes · D+99.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · 99.6%
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
63.2%
530 votes · R+26.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 44.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
5,721votes
70.8% of the vote · D+42.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 5,605 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
2,432votes
31.8% of the vote · D+34.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 2,329 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
+124.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+98.7 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +124.4 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+49.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+26.5 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1948 · −2.1 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | R | 49.1%3,751 | 50.9%3,884 | 7,635 |
District 68 posts a D+28.7 presidential margin in a state that leans heavily Republican statewide, a gap that reflects the district's concentration of majority-Black urban or Delta-area voters.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 99.6 points in 1916 and a Republican high of 26.5 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 28.7 points.
A population of 24,623, a 31% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $44,006 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 17 and State House District 29.
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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Mississippi 68th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/28068/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.