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Mississippi 2000 vs 2008: county swing

31 of 82 counties moved toward the Republican ticket; 8 changed hands.

Alcorn County: swing R+27.0Calhoun County: swing R+6.9Chickasaw County: swing D+2.7Copiah County: swing D+14.5Franklin County: swing R+1.4Hinds County: swing D+28.8Jasper County: swing D+12.7Jefferson Davis County: swing D+14.0Lauderdale County: swing D+15.4Leake County: swing D+8.3Leflore County: swing D+20.9Monroe County: swing R+5.3Neshoba County: swing R+2.5Noxubee County: swing D+15.8Pontotoc County: swing R+12.4Prentiss County: swing R+22.1Simpson County: swing D+9.1Tippah County: swing R+15.4Washington County: swing D+18.1Amite County: swing D+3.9Benton County: swing R+11.7Bolivar County: swing D+9.0Carroll County: swing R+2.1Claiborne County: swing D+11.8Covington County: swing D+4.9George County: swing R+22.9Hancock County: swing R+23.3Holmes County: swing D+16.2Humphreys County: swing D+25.8Jackson County: swing D+1.5Jones County: swing R+3.4Lamar County: swing D+0.2Greene County: swing R+12.1Marion County: swing R+7.1Montgomery County: swing D+1.0Newton County: swing D+10.4Pearl River County: swing R+18.6Quitman County: swing D+11.3Rankin County: swing D+6.5Smith County: swing R+2.6Tate County: swing R+1.4Tishomingo County: swing R+32.0Tunica County: swing D+20.9Wayne County: swing R+0.3Webster County: swing R+14.0Wilkinson County: swing D+11.0Yazoo County: swing D+9.7Attala County: swing D+2.3Clarke County: swing D+5.7Forrest County: swing D+7.9Grenada County: swing R+0.3Itawamba County: swing R+28.4Kemper County: swing D+16.1Lawrence County: swing R+12.8Lee County: swing R+5.0Lincoln County: swing EvenLowndes County: swing D+17.2Panola County: swing D+2.5Scott County: swing D+8.9Sunflower County: swing D+22.0Union County: swing R+18.0Winston County: swing D+3.4Adams County: swing D+6.5Choctaw County: swing D+1.7Clay County: swing D+7.3Coahoma County: swing D+23.8Issaquena County: swing D+2.6Jefferson County: swing D+10.5Lafayette County: swing D+3.0Harrison County: swing R+1.1Oktibbeha County: swing D+10.3Perry County: swing R+5.0Pike County: swing D+10.0Sharkey County: swing D+15.3Stone County: swing R+7.2Walthall County: swing D+8.7Warren County: swing D+15.2Yalobusha County: swing R+10.9Madison County: swing D+13.4Marshall County: swing R+5.6Tallahatchie County: swing D+8.0DeSoto County: swing D+5.4
Red: toward the Republican ticket. Blue: toward the Democratic ticket.
County20002008SwingVotes 2000Votes 2008
Tishomingo County R+19.7 R+51.7 R+32.0 6,992 8,292
Itawamba County R+28.3 R+56.7 R+28.4 8,564 9,834
Alcorn County R+17.4 R+44.4 R+27.0 12,638 15,019
Hancock County R+31.1 R+54.4 R+23.3 14,548 17,007
George County R+43.5 R+66.4 R+22.9 7,284 9,284
Prentiss County R+21.3 R+43.4 R+22.1 8,482 10,795
Pearl River County R+42.2 R+60.8 R+18.6 16,477 22,326
Union County R+32.2 R+50.2 R+18.0 9,311 12,109
Tippah County R+29.4 R+44.8 R+15.4 8,403 9,629
Webster County R+36.1 R+50.1 R+14.0 4,545 5,439
Lawrence County R+12.7 R+25.5 R+12.8 6,587 6,979
Pontotoc County R+40.3 R+52.7 R+12.4 9,510 12,791
Greene County R+39.8 R+51.9 R+12.1 4,436 5,766
Benton County flipped D+9.4 R+2.3 R+11.7 3,481 4,606
Yalobusha County flipped D+3.9 R+7.0 R+10.9 5,228 6,801
Stone County R+36.6 R+43.8 R+7.2 5,523 7,192
Marion County R+24.4 R+31.5 R+7.1 10,998 12,979
Calhoun County R+20.8 R+27.7 R+6.9 5,758 7,011
Marshall County D+23.9 D+18.3 R+5.6 12,592 16,445
Monroe County R+12.1 R+17.4 R+5.3 13,360 17,422
Lee County R+25.6 R+30.6 R+5.0 25,094 34,841
Perry County R+39.9 R+44.9 R+5.0 4,359 5,640
Jones County R+35.4 R+38.8 R+3.4 24,340 29,161
Smith County R+49.3 R+51.9 R+2.6 6,528 8,277
Neshoba County R+42.4 R+44.9 R+2.5 9,066 11,352
Carroll County R+29.2 R+31.3 R+2.1 4,924 5,955
Franklin County R+23.8 R+25.2 R+1.4 3,953 4,667
Tate County R+19.6 R+21.0 R+1.4 8,693 12,731
Harrison County R+24.9 R+26.0 R+1.1 52,616 61,684
Grenada County R+10.3 R+10.6 R+0.3 9,385 11,304
Wayne County R+21.5 R+21.8 R+0.3 7,705 9,996
Lincoln County R+32.2 R+32.2 Even 13,000 16,353
Lamar County R+56.2 R+56.0 D+0.2 16,602 23,806
Montgomery County R+9.1 R+8.1 D+1.0 4,849 5,699
Jackson County R+35.2 R+33.7 D+1.5 45,107 54,063
Choctaw County R+30.1 R+28.4 D+1.7 3,719 4,105
Attala County R+17.9 R+15.6 D+2.3 7,173 9,162
Panola County D+4.0 D+6.5 D+2.5 11,389 16,415
Issaquena County D+20.1 D+22.7 D+2.6 941 946
Chickasaw County flipped R+0.5 D+2.2 D+2.7 7,175 9,020
Lafayette County R+15.4 R+12.4 D+3.0 12,678 18,396
Winston County R+11.6 R+8.2 D+3.4 8,368 10,190
Amite County R+15.7 R+11.8 D+3.9 6,408 7,626
Covington County R+22.6 R+17.7 D+4.9 6,881 9,423
DeSoto County R+43.8 R+38.4 D+5.4 34,936 64,109
Clarke County R+30.9 R+25.2 D+5.7 6,919 8,372
Adams County D+9.2 D+15.7 D+6.5 14,879 15,696
Rankin County R+60.2 R+53.7 D+6.5 41,435 62,861
Clay County D+11.6 D+18.9 D+7.3 8,165 11,056
Forrest County R+21.5 R+13.6 D+7.9 22,251 27,083
Tallahatchie County D+11.1 D+19.1 D+8.0 5,523 6,923
Leake County R+19.0 R+10.7 D+8.3 6,952 9,330
Walthall County R+19.0 R+10.3 D+8.7 5,895 7,749
Scott County R+22.3 R+13.4 D+8.9 9,206 11,641
Bolivar County D+26.5 D+35.5 D+9.0 13,538 15,332
Simpson County R+31.6 R+22.5 D+9.1 9,574 12,545
Yazoo County flipped R+2.5 D+7.2 D+9.7 10,516 11,452
Pike County flipped R+6.5 D+3.5 D+10.0 14,166 17,992
Oktibbeha County flipped R+10.3 Even D+10.3 14,804 18,792
Newton County R+43.9 R+33.5 D+10.4 7,738 9,735
Jefferson County D+64.1 D+74.6 D+10.5 3,408 4,470
Wilkinson County D+27.5 D+38.5 D+11.0 4,098 5,122
Quitman County D+24.1 D+35.4 D+11.3 3,413 4,155
Claiborne County D+60.4 D+72.2 D+11.8 4,615 5,449
Jasper County flipped R+3.0 D+9.7 D+12.7 6,447 9,187
Madison County R+29.1 R+15.7 D+13.4 29,859 47,177
Jefferson Davis County D+7.5 D+21.5 D+14.0 5,317 7,350
Copiah County flipped R+7.5 D+7.0 D+14.5 10,587 14,464
Warren County R+18.3 R+3.1 D+15.2 18,623 21,709
Sharkey County D+21.8 D+37.1 D+15.3 2,903 2,790
Lauderdale County R+34.3 R+18.9 D+15.4 25,970 33,039
Noxubee County D+37.4 D+53.2 D+15.8 4,954 6,580
Kemper County D+9.3 D+25.4 D+16.1 4,261 5,209
Holmes County D+47.3 D+63.5 D+16.2 7,422 9,523
Lowndes County R+20.1 R+2.9 D+17.2 19,230 27,387
Washington County D+16.6 D+34.7 D+18.1 18,328 19,555
Leflore County D+15.8 D+36.7 D+20.9 11,276 13,081
Tunica County D+31.5 D+52.4 D+20.9 2,366 4,323
Sunflower County D+19.2 D+41.2 D+22.0 8,415 11,156
Coahoma County D+20.6 D+44.4 D+23.8 9,553 10,551
Humphreys County D+16.7 D+42.5 D+25.8 3,944 5,114
Hinds County D+10.3 D+39.1 D+28.8 87,770 108,662

Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data