- Lead
- 4,219
- Total
- 9,923
- vs nation
- R+41.0
Mississippi 120th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,727
- Total
- 9,749
- vs nation
- R+42.7
- Lead
- 4,004
- Total
- 8,379
- vs nation
- R+49.9
- Lead
- 3,729
- Total
- 8,284
- vs nation
- R+48.9
- Lead
- 3,646
- Total
- 8,045
- vs nation
- R+52.6
- Lead
- 3,771
- Total
- 8,212
- vs nation
- R+43.5
- Lead
- 2,949
- Total
- 6,950
- vs nation
- R+43.0
- Lead
- 1,997
- Total
- 6,250
- vs nation
- R+40.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+42.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 24,2602024 5-year
- Population density
- 998 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 24.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $62,3572024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 72.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 12.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+83.7 in 1940MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+77.7 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 121, MS · twin score 96.6
presidential history
Party record book
Mississippi 120th 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
88.3%
536 votes · D+83.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1896 · 85.7%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
87.4%
4,335 votes · R+77.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barry Goldwater, 1964 · 82.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
2,903votes
29.8% of the vote · R+38.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 2,785 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
7,004votes
70.6% of the vote · R+42.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 6,630 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
+84.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+59.5 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1896 · +82.3 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+87.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+64.4 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · +54.6 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 exceeding 42 points Republican, District 120 sits among the most lopsided state house constituencies in Mississippi, where statewide GOP dominance is further concentrated in rural and small-town precincts.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 83.7 points in 1940 and a Republican high of 77.7 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 42.5 points.
A population of 24,260, a 73% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $62,357 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 121 and State House District 95.
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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