Politics
editJefferson County is overwhelmingly Democratic, and has supported Democratic candidates in presidential elections with at least 80% of the vote since Bill Clinton in 1992, who won 79%. Republicans have not garnered even 25% of the vote in presidential elections since 1972 (when Jefferson was one of only three counties in Mississippi to vote for George McGovern).
The last Republican to win the county was Barry Goldwater. Although Goldwater lost nationally in a landslide, he carried the state of Mississippi (and also Jefferson County) in a landslide, winning over 87% of the vote and carrying every county. [note 1] Jefferson County supported him with 95% of the vote. Goldwater's lopsided victory was the result of Mississippi's decades-long suppression of the voting rights of African Americans, which only began to be reversed with the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.[note 2]
| Year | Republican | Democratic | Third party(ies) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | |
| 2020 | 531 | 13.59% | 3,327 | 85.13% | 50 | 1.28% |
| 2016 | 490 | 12.69% | 3,337 | 86.45% | 33 | 0.85% |
| 2012 | 468 | 10.56% | 3,951 | 89.13% | 14 | 0.32% |
| 2008 | 551 | 12.30% | 3,883 | 86.71% | 44 | 0.98% |
| 2004 | 630 | 18.16% | 2,821 | 81.32% | 18 | 0.52% |
| 2000 | 600 | 17.61% | 2,786 | 81.75% | 22 | 0.65% |
| 1996 | 489 | 15.68% | 2,531 | 81.15% | 99 | 3.17% |
| 1992 | 562 | 15.96% | 2,796 | 79.39% | 164 | 4.66% |
| 1988 | 702 | 20.64% | 2,693 | 79.18% | 6 | 0.18% |
| 1984 | 856 | 21.88% | 3,049 | 77.94% | 7 | 0.18% |
| 1980 | 751 | 20.17% | 2,871 | 77.09% | 102 | 2.74% |
| 1976 | 782 | 22.83% | 2,562 | 74.78% | 82 | 2.39% |
| 1972 | 440 | 16.88% | 2,146 | 82.35% | 20 | 0.77% |
| 1968 | 108 | 3.21% | 1,162 | 34.49% | 2,099 | 62.30% |
| 1964 | 1,258 | 94.80% | 69 | 5.20% | 0 | 0.00% |
| 1960 | 137 | 12.52% | 229 | 20.93% | 728 | 66.54% |
| 1956 | 189 | 19.65% | 440 | 45.74% | 333 | 34.62% |
| 1952 | 610 | 53.09% | 539 | 46.91% | 0 | 0.00% |
| 1948 | 14 | 1.41% | 15 | 1.51% | 967 | 97.09% |
| 1944 | 25 | 3.16% | 766 | 96.84% | 0 | 0.00% |
| 1940 | 7 | 0.87% | 801 | 99.13% | 0 | 0.00% |
| 1936 | 9 | 1.01% | 884 | 98.88% | 1 | 0.11% |
| 1932 | 24 | 3.07% | 753 | 96.29% | 5 | 0.64% |
| 1928 | 63 | 7.05% | 830 | 92.95% | 0 | 0.00% |
| 1924 | 50 | 9.14% | 497 | 90.86% | 0 | 0.00% |
| 1920 | 14 | 3.15% | 430 | 96.63% | 1 | 0.22% |
| 1916 | 3 | 0.65% | 456 | 99.13% | 1 | 0.22% |
| 1912 | 2 | 0.46% | 408 | 94.66% | 21 | 4.87% |
- ^ https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/datagraph.php?fips=28&year=1964&off=0&elect=0&f=0 [bare URL]
- ^ https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=28&year=1964&off=0 [bare URL]
- ^ "Freedom Summer ‑ Definition, Murders & Results". April 16, 2021.
- ^ Leip, David. "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved March 4, 2018.
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