- Lead
- 12,862
- Total
- 27,860
- vs nation
- R+44.7
Mississippi 20th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 12,747
- Total
- 27,871
- vs nation
- R+50.2
- Lead
- 13,409
- Total
- 24,555
- vs nation
- R+56.7
- Lead
- 13,578
- Total
- 24,969
- vs nation
- R+58.2
- Lead
- 13,696
- Total
- 24,603
- vs nation
- R+62.9
- Lead
- 12,906
- Total
- 21,353
- vs nation
- R+58.0
- Lead
- 10,045
- Total
- 16,100
- vs nation
- R+62.9
- Lead
- 6,548
- Total
- 13,904
- vs nation
- R+55.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+46.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 55,4242024 5-year
- Population density
- 356 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 156 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $98,5772024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 75.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 16.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+95.5 in 1916MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+91.2 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 14, AL · twin score 96.0
presidential history
Party record book
Mississippi 20th State Senate 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
96.6%
431 votes · D+95.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 96.5%
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
95.6%
2,973 votes · R+91.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 84.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
7,350votes
26.4% of the vote · R+45.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 7,334 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
20,196votes
72.5% of the vote · R+46.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 20,097 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
+117.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+92.6 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +112.9 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+113.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+91.2 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · +62.9 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+46.2 in 2024, compared with R+55.7 in 2008. Evangelical Protestant adherents were the largest religious group at 41.4% in the 2020 US Religion Census.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 95.5 points in 1916 and a Republican high of 91.2 points in 1964. The 2024 margin was 46.2 points.
A population of 55,424, a 75% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $98,577 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 14 and State Senate District 30.
The state-senate 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 20th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/28020/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.