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1876–2024
State Senate District 20·Mississippi

Mississippi 20th State Senate District voted Democratic for a century; it now votes Republican by 47 points.

1876 — 2024·38 elections
MS
Latest
R+47
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
36,280
2024 ACS

Mississippi 20th State Senate District, Mississippi: Old Confederacy district. In 2024, voted R+47%. Democratic peak: D+97 in 1916.

Key facts

2024 presidential margin
R+47MIT Election Lab
Political archetype
Old ConfederacyAkashic typology
Population
36,2802024 5-year
Median household income
$79,3572024 5-year
White (non-Hispanic)
71.4%2024 5-year
Black
20.9%2024 5-year
Hispanic / Latino
3.3%2024 5-year
Peak Democratic margin
D+97 in 1916MIT Election Lab
Peak Republican margin
R+92 in 1964MIT Election Lab
2024 results by constituent county
1 counties · 0 D · 1 R
R+60
D+60
One cell per constituent county. Ordered by 2024 D-vs-R margin (bluest first). Hover for county-level numbers.
38 presidential elections
Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024).
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
R
−47.0%
4,12511,62415,961
R
−45.3%
4,30411,62416,169
R
−52.4%
3,22210,77514,413
R
−52.2%
3,42311,06414,650
R
−53.5%
3,28210,99414,412
R
−58.6%
2,5139,83312,499
R
−60.2%
1,8387,5339,463
R
−45.1%
1,9675,6158,090
R
−45.2%
1,8625,6048,270
R
−57.2%
1,4165,2386,681
R
−58.3%
1,3425,1146,465
R
−34.2%
1,8383,8035,740
R
−24.2%
1,5842,6284,311
R
−71.8%
4372,7833,267
O
+6.9%
4512572,814
R
−91.5%
761,7221,798
O
+0.6%
1941871,092
D
+31.8%
351127705
D
+14.6%
474353827
O
+1.3%
135630
D
+92.0%
54222565
D
+96.5%
4828491
D
+94.4%
43012443
D
+93.4%
35112363
D
+76.2%
30341344
D
+95.2%
3238331
D
+90.4%
20710218
D
+97.3%
2522257
D
+92.6%
1642175
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D
+88.4%
18610199
D
+85.3%
23817259
D
+76.7%
17113206
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Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
English
14.1%
Irish
11.1%
American
8.9%
German
6.8%
Scottish
2.2%
French
1.5%
Italian
1.4%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so these shares can total more than 100%. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
Age distribution by sex
Median age: 39.6 in this county, 39.1 nationally
Male
Age
Female
0.5%
85+
1.3%
2.2%
75–84
2.9%
4.5%
65–74
5.3%
5.8%
55–64
6.2%
6.3%
45–54
6.8%
7.0%
35–44
7.4%
6.5%
25–34
6.9%
4.0%
18–24
3.9%
8.7%
5–17
8.3%
2.7%
<5
2.7%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
Median household income
2024 inflation-adjusted dollars
$79,357
State Senate District 20 ranks near the middle of US counties.
State Senate District 20$79,357
Mississippi$56,447
United States$80,734
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
Poverty rate
All persons below federal poverty line
9.8%
Child poverty is below the national average.
Children under 1813.5%
Working age (18–64)8.4%
Seniors (65+)11.8%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
95.2%
speak English only
Spanish3.0%
Other Indo-European0.8%
Asian & Pacific Islander0.8%
Other languages0.3%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Baptist
36.2%
Other Christian
7.4%
Methodist
5.4%
Pentecostal & Holiness
1.9%
Catholic & Orthodox
1.8%
Mainline Protestant
0.9%
Non-Christian
0.5%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 45.9% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Mississippi 20th State Senate District sits in the Deep South. For nearly a century after Reconstruction, the district voted Democratic — not because of New Deal politics, but because of the lingering memory of the Civil War. The Democratic party of the Solid South was the party of segregation, and in Mississippi 20th State Senate District as throughout the former Confederacy, Republican identification was politically untenable until the second half of the twentieth century.

The shift began with civil rights. The realignment unfolded over the late twentieth century. The Republican margin reached its widest at ninety-two points in 1964. The 2024 margin was forty-seven points.

The political shift has tracked, in Mississippi 20th State Senate District, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 71% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $79,357, and a 10% poverty rate describe the demographic context.

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Frequently asked questions

How did State Senate District 20, Mississippi vote in 2024?
In 2024, State Senate District 20, Mississippi voted Republican by 47.0 points (R+47), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 15,961 votes cast, 4,125 went Democratic and 11,624 went Republican.
What is State Senate District 20, Mississippi's political archetype?
Akashic classifies State Senate District 20, Mississippi as a "Old Confederacy" district based on its long-arc presidential voting pattern. Across 38 elections in the dataset, the district has voted Democratic 14 times, Republican 15 times, and other 3 times.
When did State Senate District 20, Mississippi last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which State Senate District 20, Mississippi voted Democratic was 1956.
How many people live in State Senate District 20, Mississippi?
State Senate District 20, Mississippi has a population of 36,280 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in State Senate District 20, Mississippi?
Median household income in State Senate District 20, Mississippi is $79,357 — below the national median of $80,734. The Mississippi state median is $56,447.
What is the political history of State Senate District 20, Mississippi?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in State Senate District 20, Mississippi from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 14 went Democratic and 15 went Republican. The district's archetype — "Old Confederacy" — captures the overall trajectory of that voting record.