Mississippi · 2008 presidential election

Mississippi presidential election results 2008

John McCain carried Mississippi by 13.17 points (169,935 votes), winning 6 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 6
Votes counted: 1,289,865
MS result: R+13.2
Compared with the nation: 20.4 pts more Republican
Swing since 2004: 6.5 pts to D

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
John McCain	Republican	724,597	56.20%	6
Barack Obama	Democratic	554,662	43.00%	—
Total votes		1,289,865

Sources: 2008

County resultsMIT Election Lab

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MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016 (compiled from official state election records)
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Each county coloured by its winner and shaded by margin. Tap one for its history.

County	Barack Obama	John McCain	Others	Total	Margin
Adams	9,021	6,566	109	15,696	15.6
Alcorn	4,130	10,805	84	15,019	44.4
Amite	3,348	4,245	33	7,626	11.8
Attala	3,849	5,273	40	9,162	15.5
Benton	2,227	2,329	50	4,606	2.2
Bolivar	10,334	4,891	107	15,332	35.5
Calhoun	2,522	4,467	22	7,011	27.7
Carroll	2,037	3,902	16	5,955	31.3
Chickasaw	4,588	4,395	37	9,020	2.1
Choctaw	1,459	2,624	22	4,105	28.4
Claiborne	4,682	748	19	5,449	72.2
Clarke	3,121	5,229	22	8,372	25.2
Clay	6,558	4,466	32	11,056	18.9
Coahoma	7,597	2,917	37	10,551	44.4
Copiah	7,710	6,701	53	14,464	7.0
Covington	3,852	5,523	48	9,423	17.7
DeSoto	19,627	44,222	260	64,109	38.4
Forrest	11,622	15,296	165	27,083	13.6
Franklin	1,733	2,909	25	4,667	25.2
George	1,532	7,700	52	9,284	66.4
Greene	1,366	4,361	39	5,766	51.9
Grenada	5,029	6,234	41	11,304	10.7
Hancock	3,768	13,020	219	17,007	54.4
Harrison	22,673	38,757	254	61,684	26.1
Hinds	75,401	32,949	312	108,662	39.1
Holmes	7,765	1,714	44	9,523	63.5
Humphreys	3,634	1,462	18	5,114	42.5
Issaquena	579	364	3	946	22.7
Itawamba	2,084	7,663	87	9,834	56.7
Jackson	17,781	35,993	289	54,063	33.7
Jasper	5,025	4,135	27	9,187	9.7
Jefferson	3,883	551	36	4,470	74.5
Jefferson Davis	4,454	2,871	25	7,350	21.5
Jones	8,846	20,157	158	29,161	38.8
Kemper	3,256	1,935	18	5,209	25.4
Lafayette	7,997	10,278	121	18,396	12.4
Lamar	5,159	18,497	150	23,806	56.0
Lauderdale	13,332	19,582	125	33,039	18.9
Lawrence	2,587	4,369	23	6,979	25.5
Leake	4,151	5,148	31	9,330	10.7
Lee	12,021	22,694	126	34,841	30.6
Leflore	8,914	4,105	62	13,081	36.8
Lincoln	5,505	10,781	67	16,353	32.3
Lowndes	13,209	13,994	184	27,387	2.9
Madison	19,831	27,203	143	47,177	15.6
Marion	4,422	8,513	44	12,979	31.5
Marshall	9,685	6,683	77	16,445	18.3
Monroe	7,169	10,184	69	17,422	17.3
Montgomery	2,609	3,071	19	5,699	8.1
Neshoba	3,114	8,209	29	11,352	44.9
Newton	3,218	6,479	38	9,735	33.5
Noxubee	5,030	1,525	25	6,580	53.3
Oktibbeha	9,326	9,320	146	18,792	0.0
Panola	8,690	7,620	105	16,415	6.5
Pearl River	4,320	17,881	125	22,326	60.7
Perry	1,533	4,067	40	5,640	44.9
Pike	9,276	8,651	65	17,992	3.5
Pontotoc	2,982	9,727	82	12,791	52.7
Prentiss	3,020	7,703	72	10,795	43.4
Quitman	2,803	1,334	18	4,155	35.4
Rankin	14,372	48,140	349	62,861	53.7
Scott	5,025	6,584	32	11,641	13.4
Sharkey	1,907	873	10	2,790	37.1
Simpson	4,817	7,641	87	12,545	22.5
Smith	1,968	6,265	44	8,277	51.9
Stone	1,996	5,149	47	7,192	43.8
Sunflower	7,838	3,245	73	11,156	41.2
Tallahatchie	4,105	2,786	32	6,923	19.1
Tate	5,003	7,678	50	12,731	21.0
Tippah	2,623	6,937	69	9,629	44.8
Tishomingo	1,962	6,249	81	8,292	51.7
Tunica	3,279	1,017	27	4,323	52.3
Union	2,985	9,072	52	12,109	50.3
Walthall	3,456	4,253	40	7,749	10.3
Warren	10,489	11,152	68	21,709	3.1
Washington	13,148	6,347	60	19,555	34.8
Wayne	3,890	6,070	36	9,996	21.8
Webster	1,349	4,072	18	5,439	50.1
Wilkinson	3,534	1,560	28	5,122	38.5
Winston	4,653	5,497	40	10,190	8.3
Yalobusha	3,151	3,628	22	6,801	7.0
Yazoo	6,116	5,290	46	11,452	7.2

Candidate votes as printed in the document. “Total” is the document’s total where it prints one, otherwise the sum of the candidate columns. Margin is the leading ticket’s lead in points over the second.

Notes on how this document was read

Secondary source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016 (compiled from official state election records).

Method: Machine-readable dataset; county sums checked against the state totals in The American Presidency Project summary (within 0.5% for both main tickets).

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Questions and answers

Who won Mississippi in 2008?

John McCain won Mississippi by 13.17 percentage points (169,935 votes).

How many electoral votes did Mississippi have in 2008?

Mississippi cast 6 electoral votes in 2008.

How many people voted for president in Mississippi in 2008?

1,289,865 votes were counted for president.

How many counties did each candidate win in Mississippi in 2008?

John McCain 53, Barack Obama 29 (out of 82 counties with results).

How did Mississippi change from 2004 to 2008?

The margin moved 6.5 points toward the Democratic ticket, from Republican by 19.7 points to Republican by 13.2 points.

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