Draft:2016-2020 Mississippi Legislature

Senate

Party affiliations

Affiliation	Party (Shading indicates majority caucus)		Total

	Democratic	Republican		Vacant
End of previous legislature	23	28	51	1

Begin	21	31	52	0
End of previous legislature^[1]	20	32	52	0

Begin	20	32	52	0
January 19, 2016^[2]		31	51	1
March 8, 2016^[3]		32	52	0
July 25, 2017^[4]	19	32	51	1
October 16, 2017^[5]		31	50	2
November 28, 2017^[6]		32	51	1
December 19, 2017^[7]		33	52	0
April 30, 2019^[8]		32	51	1
July 1, 2019^[9]	18	31	49	3
Latest voting share	36.73%	63.27%

Membership

Source^[10]

District	Name	Party	Residence
1	Chris Massey	Rep	Nesbit
2	David Parker	Rep	Olive Branch
3	Nickey Browning	Rep	Pontotoc
4	Rita Potts Parks	Rep	Corinth
5	J. P. Wilemon	Dem	Belmont
6	Chad McMahan	Rep	Guntown
7	Hob Bryan	Dem	Amory
8	Russell Jolly	Dem	Houston
9	Gray Tollison	Rep	Oxford
10	Neil S. Whaley	Rep	Holly Springs
11	Robert L. Jackson	Dem	Marks
12	Derrick Simmons	Dem	Greenville
13	Willie Lee Simmons	Dem	Cleveland
14	Lydia Chassaniol	Rep	Winona
15	Gary Jackson	Rep	French Camp
16	Angela Turner	Dem	West Point
17	Charles Younger	Rep	Columbus
18	Jenifer Branning	Rep	Philadelphia
19	Kevin Blackwell	Rep	Southaven
20	Josh Harkins	Rep	Flowood
21	Barbara Blackmon	Dem	Canton
22	Eugene S. Clarke	Rep	Hollandale
23	Briggs Hopson	Rep	Vicksburg
24	David Lee Jordan	Dem	Greenwood
25	J. Walter Michel	Rep	Ridgeland
26	John A. Horhn	Dem	Jackson
27	Hillman Terome Frazier	Dem	Jackson
28	Sollie Norwood	Dem	Jackson
29	David Blount	Dem	Jackson
30	Dean Kirby	Rep	Pearl
31	Terry C. Burton	Rep	Newton
32	Sampson Jackson II	Dem	Preston
33	Vacant	Rep	Meridian
34	Juan Barnett	Dem	Heidelberg
35	Chris Caughman	Rep	Mendenhall
36	Albert Butler	Dem	Port Gibson
37	Vacant	Dem	Natchez
38	Tammy Witherspoon	Dem	Magnolia
39	Sally Doty	Rep	Brookhaven
40	Angela Burks Hill	Rep	Picayune
41	Joey Fillingane	Rep	Sumrall
42	Chris McDaniel	Rep	Ellisville
43	Dennis DeBar	Rep	Leakesville
44	John A. Polk	Rep	Hattiesburg
45	Billy Hudson	Rep	Hattiesburg
46	Philip Moran	Rep	Kiln
47	Joseph Seymour	Rep	Vancleave
48	Deborah Jeanne Dawkins	Dem	Pass Christian
49	Joel Carter	Rep	Gulfport
50	Vacant	Rep	Biloxi
51	Michael Watson	Rep	Pascagoula
52	Brice Wiggins	Rep	Pascagoula

House

Membership

District	Representative	Party	Assumed Office	Residence	Notes
1	Lester Carpenter	Republican	2008	Burnsville
2	Nick Bain	Republican	2012	Corinth
3	William Tracy Arnold	Republican	2012	Booneville
4	Jody Steverson	Republican	2012	Ripley
5	John Faulkner	Democratic	2014	Holly Springs
6	Dana Criswell	Republican	2016	Olive Branch
7	Steve Hopkins	Republican	2016	Southaven
8	Trey Lamar	Republican	2012	Senatobia
9	Cedric Burnett	Democratic	2016	Tunica
10	Nolan Mettetal	Republican	2012	Sardis
11	Lataisha Jackson	Democratic	2013	Como
12	J. P. Hughes Jr.	Republican	2016	Oxford
13	Steve Massengill	Republican	2012	Hickory Flat
14	Margaret Ellis Rogers	Republican	2004	New Albany
15	Mac Huddleston	Republican	2008	Pontotoc
15		Vacant
16	Steve Holland	Democratic	1984	Plantersville
17	Shane Aguirre	Republican	2016	Tupelo
18	Jerry Turner	Republican	2004	Baldwyn
19	Randy Boyd	Republican	2012	Mantachie
20	Chris Brown	Republican	2012	Nettleton
21	Donnie Bell	Republican	2008	Fulton
22	Preston E. Sullivan	Republican	2004	Okolona
23	Jim Beckett	Republican	2004	Bruce
24	Jeff Hale	Republican	2016	Nesbit
25	Dan Eubanks	Republican	2016	Walls
26	Orlando Paden	Democratic	2016	Clarksdale
27	Kenneth Walker	Democratic	2016
27		Vacant
28	Robert Foster	Republican
29	Abe Marshall Hudson	Democratic
30	Robert E. Huddleston	Democratic
31	Sara Richardson Thomas	Democratic
32	Willie J. Perkins Sr.	Democratic
33	Thomas Reynolds II	Democratic	1980	Charleston
34	Kevin Horan	Republican	2012	Grenada
35	Joey Hood	Republican	2012	Ackerman
36	Karl Gibbs	Democratic	2013	West Point
37	Gary A. Chism	Republican
		Republican
38	Tyrone Ellis	Democratic
39	Jeff Smith	Republican
40	Ashley Henley	Democratic
41	Kabir Karriem	Democratic	2016	Columbus
42	Carl Mickens	Democratic	2016	Brooksville
43	Rob Roberson	Republican	2016	Starkville
44	C. Scott Bounds	Republican	2004	Philadelphia
45	Michael Evans	Independent	2012	Preston
46	Karl Oliver	Republican	2016	Winona
47	Bryant Clark	Democratic	2004	Pickens
48	Jason White	Republican	2012	West
49	Willie Bailey	Democratic	1995	Greenville
50	John Hines	Democratic	2001	Greenville
51	Rufus Straughter	Democratic	1996	Belzoni
52	Bill Kinkade	Republican	2013	Byhalia
53	Vince Mangold	Republican	2016	Brookhaven
54	Alex Monsour		2008
54	Kevin Ford	Republican	2017	Vicksburg
55	Oscar Denton	Democratic	2013	Vicksburg
56	Philip Gunn	Republican	2004	Clinton	Speaker of the House since 2012
57	Edward Blackmon Jr.	Democratic	1984	Canton
58	Joel Bomgar	Republican	2016	Madison
59	Brent Powell	Republican	2013	Brandon
60	John L. Moore
60	Fred Shanks	Republican	2018	Brandon
61	Ray Rogers	Republican
62	Thomas Weathersby Sr.	Republican	1992	Florence
63	Deborah Butler Dixon	Democratic
64	William C. Denny Jr.	Independent
65	Chris Bell	Democratic	2016	Jackson
66	Jarvis Dortch	Democratic
67	Earle S. Banks	Democratic	1993	Jackson
68	Credell Calhoun	Democratic
69	Alyce Clarke	Democratic	1985	Jackson
70	Kathy Sykes	Democratic		Jackson
71	Adrienne Wooten
71	Ronnie Crudup Jr.	Democratic	2019	Jackson
72	Debra Gibbs	Democratic	2016
72		Vacant
73	Cory Wilson	Republican
74	Lee Yancey	Republican
75	Tom Miles	Democratic	2012	Forest
76	Gregory Holloway Sr.	Democratic	2000	Hazlehurst

77	Price Wallace	Republican	2018	Mendenhall
78	Randy Rushing	Republican	2012	Decatur
79	Mark Tullos	Republican	2016	Raleigh
80	Omeria Scott	Democratic	1993	Laurel
81	Stephen Horne	Republican	2004	Meridian
82	Charles Young	Democratic	2012	Meridian
83	Greg Snowden	Republican			Speaker pro tempore
84	William Shirley	Republican
85	Chuck Middleton
85	Jeffery Harness	Democratic	2018	Fayette
86	Shane Barnett	Republican	2016	Waynesboro
87	Chris Johnson	Republican
88	Gary V. Staples	Republican
89
89	Donnie Scoggin	Republican	2017	Ellisville
90
90	Noah Sanford	Republican	2017	Collins
91	Bob Evans	Democratic	2008	Monticello
92	Becky Currie	Republican	2008	Brookhaven
93	Timmy Ladner	Republican	2012	Poplarville
94	Robert Johnson III	Democratic	2004	Natchez	Minority leader
95	Patricia H. Willis	Republican
96	Angela Cockerham	Independent	2005	Magnolia
97	Sam Mims V	Republican	2004	McComb
98	David W. Myers	Democratic
99	Bill Pigott	Republican	2008	Tylertown
100	Ken Morgan	Republican	2007	Morgantown
101	Brad A. Touchstone
101	Kent McCarty	Republican	2019	Hattiesburg
102	Toby Barker
102	Missy McGee	Republican	2017	Hattiesburg
103	Percy Watson	Democratic	1980	Hattiesburg
104	Larry Byrd	Republican	2008	Petal
105	Roun S. McNeal	Republican
106	John Glen Corley	Republican
107	Doug McLeod	Republican	2012	Lucedale
108	Mark Formby
108	Stacey Hobgood-Wilkes	Republican	2017	Picayune
109	Manly Barton	Republican	2012	Moss Point
110	Jeramey Anderson	Democratic	2013	Escatawpa
111	Charles Busby	Republican	2012	Pascagoula
112	John Read	Republican	1994	Gautier
113	Henry Zuber III	Republican	2000	Ocean Springs
114	Jeffrey S. Guice	Republican	2008	Ocean Springs
115	Randall Patterson	Republican	2004	Biloxi
116	Casey Eure	Republican	2011	Saucier
117	Scott DeLano	Republican
118	Greg Haney	Republican	2012	Gulfport
119	Sonya Williams-Barnes	Democratic	2012
119		Democratic
120	Richard Bennett	Republican	2008	Long Beach
121	Carolyn Crawford	Republican	2012	Pass Christian
122	David W. Baria	Republican

References

^ Sen. Nickey Browning switched parties in early 2013 from Democrat to Republican.
^ Sen. Will Longwitz resigned to be appointed Madison County Court Judge
^ Walter Michel was elected to fill the vacancy left by Will Longwitz and assumed office March 22.[1]
^ Sen. Bill Stone (D-10) resigns
^ Sen. Sean Tindell (R-49) resigns after a judicial appointment
^ Republican Neil Whaley elected in non-partisan election to replace Sen. Bill Stone (D-10) [2]
^ Republican Joel Carter elected in non-partisan election to replace Sen. Sean Tindell (R-49) [3]
^ Republican Videt Carmichael resigned to begin serving on the Mississippi Community College Board (R-33) [4]
^ Democrat Bob Dearing (D-37) and Republican Tommy Gollott (R-50) resigned [5]
^ "2016-2020 Mississippi Blue Book | Michael Watson Secretary of state". www.sos.ms.gov. Retrieved 2024-11-24.

[1] Sen. Nickey Browning switched parties in early 2013 from Democrat to Republican.

[2] Sen. Will Longwitz resigned to be appointed Madison County Court Judge

[3] Walter Michel was elected to fill the vacancy left by Will Longwitz and assumed office March 22.[1]

[4] Sen. Bill Stone (D-10) resigns

[5] Sen. Sean Tindell (R-49) resigns after a judicial appointment

[6] Republican Neil Whaley elected in non-partisan election to replace Sen. Bill Stone (D-10) [2]

[7] Republican Joel Carter elected in non-partisan election to replace Sen. Sean Tindell (R-49) [3]

[8] Republican Videt Carmichael resigned to begin serving on the Mississippi Community College Board (R-33) [4]

[9] Democrat Bob Dearing (D-37) and Republican Tommy Gollott (R-50) resigned [5]

[10] "2016-2020 Mississippi Blue Book | Michael Watson Secretary of state". www.sos.ms.gov. Retrieved 2024-11-24.

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