Congressional District 3 Congressional District (MS) — Elections 1876–2024

Mississippi 3rd Congressional District, Mississippi: Old Confederacy district. In 2024, voted R+29%. Democratic peak: D+96 in 1936.

Key facts

2024 presidential margin: R+29MIT Election Lab
Political archetype: Old ConfederacyAkashic typology
Population: 651,6272024 5-year
Median household income: $58,2222024 5-year
White (non-Hispanic): 58.3%2024 5-year
Black: 34.3%2024 5-year
Hispanic / Latino: 2.8%2024 5-year
Peak Democratic margin: D+96 in 1936MIT Election Lab
Peak Republican margin: R+86 in 1964MIT Election Lab

2024 results by constituent county

36 counties · 6 D · 30 R

R+60

D+60

One cell per constituent county. Ordered by 2024 D-vs-R margin (bluest first). Hover for county-level numbers.

38 presidential elections

Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024).
Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−29.4%	98,151	181,301	282,380
2020	R	−24.1%	113,150	186,207	303,152
2016	R	−26.2%	101,393	175,379	282,094
2012	R	−21.0%	116,694	179,500	298,771
2008	R	−22.7%	115,571	183,946	301,756
2004	R	−31.3%	90,004	172,777	264,722
2000	R	−28.9%	79,594	145,337	227,257
1996	R	−16.1%	77,502	109,518	199,366
1992	R	−19.2%	80,261	123,144	222,810
1988	R	−28.4%	74,905	134,946	211,060
1984	R	−31.9%	71,212	138,669	211,433
1980	R	−7.7%	91,701	107,392	203,543
1976	R	−5.9%	79,701	89,998	173,257
1972	R	−63.7%	25,458	119,319	147,319
1968	O	+8.9%	27,654	14,536	146,643
1964	R	−85.6%	7,336	94,483	101,819
1960	O	+13.4%	23,495	14,022	70,548
1956	D	+44.6%	38,644	11,861	60,084
1952	D	+29.8%	45,443	24,596	70,038
1948	O	+5.2%	3,403	825	49,294
1944	D	+91.0%	44,926	2,128	47,054
1940	D	+93.8%	43,116	1,356	44,531
1936	D	+96.1%	45,048	859	45,967
1932	D	+93.9%	36,727	1,083	37,942
1928	D	+59.0%	31,678	8,170	39,848
1924	D	+81.7%	26,098	1,953	29,560
1920	D	+71.3%	18,974	2,947	22,485
1916	D	+89.9%	22,691	972	24,169
1912	D	+88.1%	15,518	353	17,222
1908	—	No data	0	0	0
1904	—	No data	0	0	0
1900	D	+78.3%	13,191	1,424	15,022
1896	D	+86.0%	17,700	1,185	19,214
1892	D	+76.5%	10,428	258	13,297
1888	—	No data	0	0	0
1884	—	No data	0	0	0
1880	—	No data	0	0	0
1876	—	No data	0	0	0

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.

American

11.1%

English

10.5%

Irish

7.8%

German

4.4%

Scottish

1.6%

Italian

1.2%

French

1.2%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so these shares can total more than 100%. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 38.9 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.5%

85+

1.3%

2.4%

75–84

3.1%

4.9%

65–74

5.6%

5.9%

55–64

6.5%

5.9%

45–54

6.3%

6.0%

35–44

6.5%

6.0%

25–34

6.2%

5.0%

18–24

4.8%

8.8%

5–17

8.4%

3.1%

2.9%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$58,222

Congressional District 3 ranks near the middle of US counties.

Congressional District 3$58,222

Mississippi$63,999

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

19.3%

Children face higher poverty than working-age adults.

Children under 1827.1%

Working age (18–64)16.9%

Seniors (65+)16.1%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Language at home

Population aged 5 and older

95.8%

speak English only

Spanish2.3%

Other languages0.8%

Asian & Pacific Islander0.6%

Other Indo-European0.5%

Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.

Religious adherents

Adherents per capita by tradition

Baptist

40.7%

Other Christian

7.7%

Methodist

7.2%

Pentecostal & Holiness

2.6%

Catholic & Orthodox

1.7%

Mainline Protestant

1.4%

Non-Christian

0.3%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 38.5% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Mississippi 3rd Congressional District sits in the Deep South. For nearly a century after Reconstruction, the district voted Democratic — not because of New Deal politics, but because of the long memory of the Civil War. The Democratic party of the Solid South was the party of segregation, and in Mississippi 3rd Congressional District as throughout the former Confederacy, Republican identification was politically untenable until the second half of the twentieth century.

The shift began with civil rights. The realignment unfolded over the late twentieth century. The Republican margin reached its widest at eighty-six points in 1964. The 2024 margin was twenty-nine points.

The political shift has tracked, in Mississippi 3rd Congressional District, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 58% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $58,222, and a 19% poverty rate describe the demographic context.

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Frequently asked questions

How did Congressional District 3, Mississippi vote in 2024?

In 2024, Congressional District 3, Mississippi voted Republican by 29.4 points (R+29), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 282,380 votes cast, 98,151 went Democratic and 181,301 went Republican.

What is Congressional District 3, Mississippi's political archetype?

Akashic classifies Congressional District 3, Mississippi as a "Old Confederacy" district based on its long-arc presidential voting pattern. Across 38 elections in the dataset, the district has voted Democratic 14 times, Republican 15 times, and other 3 times.

When did Congressional District 3, Mississippi last vote Democratic?

The most recent presidential election in which Congressional District 3, Mississippi voted Democratic was 1956.

How many people live in Congressional District 3, Mississippi?

Congressional District 3, Mississippi has a population of 651,627 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.

What is the median household income in Congressional District 3, Mississippi?

Median household income in Congressional District 3, Mississippi is $58,222 — below the national median of $80,734. The Mississippi state median is $63,999.

What is the political history of Congressional District 3, Mississippi?

Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Congressional District 3, Mississippi from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 14 went Democratic and 15 went Republican. The district's archetype — "Old Confederacy" — captures the overall trajectory of that voting record.

Mississippi 3rd Congressional District voted Democratic for a century; it now votes Republican by 29 points.

Key facts

Demographics

Frequently asked questions