Mississippi · 2016 presidential election

Mississippi presidential election results 2016

Donald J. Trump carried Mississippi by 17.83 points (215,583 votes), winning 6 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 6
Votes counted: 1,209,357
MS result: R+17.8
Compared with the nation: 19.8 pts more Republican
Swing since 2012: 6.3 pts to R

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
Donald J. Trump	Republican	700,714	57.90%	6
Hillary Clinton	Democratic	485,131	40.10%	—
Gary Johnson	Libertarian	14,435	1.20%	—
Total votes		1,209,357

Sources: ms.pdf · 2016

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	Hillary Clinton	Donald J. Trump	Others	Total	Margin
Adams	7,757	5,874	205	13,836	13.6
Alcorn	2,684	11,819	280	14,783	61.8
Amite	2,697	4,289	64	7,050	22.6
Attala	3,242	4,897	117	8,256	20.0
Benton	1,719	2,251	43	4,013	13.3
Bolivar	9,046	4,590	188	13,824	32.2
Calhoun	1,910	4,390	96	6,396	38.8
Carroll	1,680	3,799	49	5,528	38.3
Chickasaw	3,649	4,127	114	7,890	6.1
Choctaw	1,218	2,788	59	4,065	38.6
Claiborne	3,708	540	24	4,272	74.2
Clarke	2,585	5,137	69	7,791	32.8
Clay	5,722	4,150	131	10,003	15.7
Coahoma	6,378	2,426	108	8,912	44.3
Copiah	6,741	6,103	138	12,982	4.9
Covington	3,276	5,435	100	8,811	24.5
DeSoto	20,591	43,089	2,015	65,695	34.2
Forrest	11,716	15,461	887	28,064	13.3
Franklin	1,502	2,721	67	4,290	28.4
George	1,027	8,696	168	9,891	77.5
Greene	974	4,335	60	5,369	62.6
Grenada	4,424	5,970	119	10,513	14.7
Hancock	3,344	13,811	482	17,637	59.3
Harrison	21,169	40,354	1,790	63,313	30.3
Hinds	67,594	25,275	1,812	94,681	44.7
Holmes	6,689	1,309	78	8,076	66.6
Humphreys	3,071	1,151	31	4,253	45.1
Issaquena	395	298	6	699	13.9
Itawamba	1,117	8,470	150	9,737	75.5
Jackson	14,657	33,629	1,281	49,567	38.3
Jasper	4,368	4,038	69	8,475	3.9
Jefferson	3,337	490	33	3,860	73.8
Jefferson Davis	3,720	2,466	51	6,237	20.1
Jones	7,791	20,133	428	28,352	43.5
Kemper	2,827	1,778	34	4,639	22.6
Lafayette	7,969	10,872	802	19,643	14.8
Lamar	5,190	18,751	651	24,592	55.1
Lauderdale	11,269	17,741	496	29,506	21.9
Lawrence	2,195	4,091	78	6,364	29.8
Leake	3,584	4,782	83	8,449	14.2
Lee	10,029	22,220	664	32,913	37.0
Leflore	7,787	3,212	141	11,140	41.1
Lincoln	4,458	10,550	185	15,193	40.1
Lowndes	11,819	13,271	485	25,575	5.7
Madison	20,343	28,265	1,194	49,802	15.9
Marion	3,677	7,836	180	11,693	35.6
Marshall	8,023	6,587	229	14,839	9.7
Monroe	5,524	10,167	193	15,884	29.2
Montgomery	2,115	2,818	63	4,996	14.1
Neshoba	2,715	7,679	159	10,553	47.0
Newton	2,756	6,548	134	9,438	40.2
Noxubee	4,347	1,200	27	5,574	56.5
Oktibbeha	8,859	8,576	689	18,124	1.6
Panola	7,431	7,449	184	15,064	0.1
Pearl River	3,604	17,782	497	21,883	64.8
Perry	1,220	4,135	77	5,432	53.7
Pike	8,043	8,009	258	16,310	0.2
Pontotoc	2,386	10,336	262	12,984	61.2
Prentiss	2,067	7,648	157	9,872	56.5
Quitman	2,312	1,001	52	3,365	39.0
Rankin	14,110	47,178	1,480	62,768	52.7
Scott	4,268	6,122	132	10,522	17.6
Sharkey	1,479	692	19	2,190	35.9
Simpson	3,874	7,393	152	11,419	30.8
Smith	1,617	5,928	82	7,627	56.5
Stone	1,573	5,306	166	7,045	53.0
Sunflower	6,725	2,794	79	9,598	41.0
Tallahatchie	3,337	2,462	71	5,870	14.9
Tate	3,926	7,495	206	11,627	30.7
Tippah	1,842	7,240	153	9,235	58.5
Tishomingo	999	7,166	206	8,371	73.7
Tunica	2,667	853	47	3,567	50.9
Union	2,012	9,235	249	11,496	62.8
Walthall	2,790	4,056	73	6,919	18.3
Warren	9,284	9,767	365	19,416	2.5
Washington	11,380	5,244	201	16,825	36.5
Wayne	3,524	5,990	85	9,599	25.7
Webster	1,019	3,976	74	5,069	58.3
Wilkinson	2,857	1,318	43	4,218	36.5
Winston	3,850	4,910	121	8,881	11.9
Yalobusha	2,582	3,376	119	6,077	13.1
Yazoo	5,369	4,598	103	10,070	7.7

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).

Certified state documentCertified

Mississippi Secretary of State, Certificate of Vote (page 1) and Election Summary Report E-013, 2016 Presidential Election, United States President and Vice President, statewide (page 2; scan without text layer)
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Every ticket on the ballot, as printed in the certified document (the statewide table above groups minor candidates as “Others” when the source does).

All 7 tickets as printed in the document

Ticket (as printed)	Code	Votes	Share
Donald J. Trump	—	700,714	57.94%
Hillary Clinton	—	485,131	40.11%
Gary Johnson	—	14,435	1.19%
Darrell Castle	—	3,987	0.33%
Jill Stein	—	3,731	0.31%
Jim Hedges	—	715	0.06%
'Rocky' Roque De La Fuente	—	644	0.05%

Notes on how this document was read

Each ticket is printed over two lines (president line with the figures, running mate line below); the label is the president's name from the first line.

Method: page image read by Apple Vision (lines), Tesseract (words) and RapidOCR (lines); a number is kept when two engines read the same digits in the same place

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Questions and answers

Who won Mississippi in 2016?

Donald J. Trump won Mississippi by 17.83 percentage points (215,583 votes).

How many electoral votes did Mississippi have in 2016?

Mississippi cast 6 electoral votes in 2016.

How many people voted for president in Mississippi in 2016?

1,209,357 votes were counted for president.

How many counties did each candidate win in Mississippi in 2016?

Donald J. Trump 55, Hillary Clinton 27 (out of 82 counties with results).

How did Mississippi change from 2012 to 2016?

The margin moved 6.3 points toward the Republican ticket, from Republican by 11.5 points to Republican by 17.8 points.

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