{
 "topic": "senate",
 "site": "electiondata.dev",
 "place": {
  "id": "us-ms",
  "name": "Mississippi",
  "level": "us-state",
  "parent": "usa",
  "path": "us/ms",
  "slug": "ms",
  "state": "ms",
  "state_name": "Mississippi",
  "state_id": "us-ms"
 },
 "question": "How did Mississippi vote for the Senate?",
 "answer": {
  "verdict": "Roger F. Wicker (Republican) won by 25.6 points",
  "value": 25.6,
  "unit": " pts",
  "digits": 1,
  "label": "Senate, 2024: winner's margin",
  "lines": [
   "Roger F. Wicker (Republican) 62.8%, Ty Pinkins (Democrat) 37.2%",
   "1,215,401 votes for Senate candidates"
  ]
 },
 "as_of": "2024",
 "as_of_label": "2024",
 "charts": [
  {
   "id": "senate-margin",
   "title": "Every regular Senate election in Mississippi since 1976",
   "description": "17 regular elections; Democrats were ahead in 2 and Republicans in 15.",
   "indicator": "Democratic candidate's share of Senate votes minus the Republican's, points (regular elections; special elections are in the table)",
   "subtitle": "Democratic share minus Republican share, in points. Above the line: the Democrat got more votes.",
   "x": {
    "kind": "year"
   },
   "y": {
    "digits": 1,
    "unit": " pts",
    "format": "party-margin"
   },
   "layers": [
    {
     "type": "bars",
     "name": "Margin",
     "base": 0,
     "points": [
      [
       1976,
       100,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1978,
       -13.513,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1982,
       28.398,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1984,
       -21.884,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1988,
       -7.82,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1990,
       -100,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1994,
       -37.59,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1996,
       -43.647,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2000,
       -34.286,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2002,
       -84.579,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2006,
       -28.711,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2008,
       -22.87,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2012,
       -16.605,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2014,
       -22.006,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2018,
       -19.018,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2020,
       -9.976,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2024,
       -25.624,
       "rep"
      ]
     ],
     "legend": [
      {
       "label": "Democrat ahead",
       "cls": "dem"
      },
      {
       "label": "Republican ahead",
       "cls": "rep"
      }
     ]
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "Statewide totals say nothing about who voted or why.",
  "Candidates with a party's support under another name (Minnesota's DFL, New York's fusion lines) are counted with that party, as the MIT data's simplified party does; independents stay independents."
 ],
 "method": "Each candidate's votes are summed over every ballot line; blank, over- and under-votes are left out. The margin is the winner's share of the votes minus the runner-up's. A runoff, where held, is the result.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "name": "electiondata.dev senate-results, version 2026-10-25.247421eda6",
   "url": "https://electiondata.dev/",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  },
  {
   "name": "MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. Senate statewide 1976-2024",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PEJ5QU",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  }
 ],
 "check": {
  "races": [
   {
    "year": 1976,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 554433,
    "votes": {
     "John C. Stennis": 554433
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1978,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 590236,
    "votes": {
     "Thad Cochran": 267302,
     "Maurice Dantin": 187541,
     "James Charles Evers": 133646,
     "Henry Jay Kirksey": 1747
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1982,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 645026,
    "votes": {
     "John C. Stennis": 414099,
     "Haley Barbour": 230927
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1984,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 952240,
    "votes": {
     "Thad Cochran": 580314,
     "William F. Winter": 371926
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1988,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 946719,
    "votes": {
     "Trent Lott": 510380,
     "Wayne Dowdy": 436339
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1990,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 274244,
    "votes": {
     "Thad Cochran": 274244
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1994,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 608085,
    "votes": {
     "Trent Lott": 418333,
     "Ken Harper": 189752
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1996,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 878662,
    "votes": {
     "Thad Cochran": 624154,
     "James W. (bootie) Hunt": 240647,
     "Ted C. Weill": 13861
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2000,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 994144,
    "votes": {
     "Trent Lott": 654941,
     "Troy D. Brown Sr.": 314090,
     "Jim Giles": 9344,
     "Lewis Napper": 8454,
     "Shawn O'hara": 7315
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2002,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 630495,
    "votes": {
     "Thad Cochran": 533269,
     "Shawn O'hara": 97226
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2006,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 610921,
    "votes": {
     "Trent Lott": 388399,
     "Erik R. Fleming": 213000,
     "Harold M. Taylor": 9522
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2008,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1247026,
    "votes": {
     "Thad Cochran": 766111,
     "Erik Fleming": 480915
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2008,
    "special": true,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1243473,
    "votes": {
     "Roger F. Wicker": 683409,
     "Ronnie Musgrove": 560064
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2012,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1241568,
    "votes": {
     "Roger F. Wicker": 709626,
     "Albert N. Gore Jr.": 503467,
     "Thomas Cramer": 15281,
     "Shawn O'hara": 13194
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2014,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 631858,
    "votes": {
     "Thad Cochran": 378481,
     "Travis W. Childers": 239439,
     "Shawn O'hara": 13938
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2018,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 936215,
    "votes": {
     "Roger F. Wicker": 547619,
     "David Baria": 369567,
     "Danny Bedwell": 12981,
     "Shawn O'hara": 6048
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2018,
    "special": true,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 907588,
    "votes": {
     "Cindy Hyde-smith": 486769,
     "Mike Espy": 420819
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2020,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1311354,
    "votes": {
     "Cindy Hyde-smith": 709511,
     "Mike Espy": 578691,
     "Jimmy L. Edwards": 23152
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2024,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1215401,
    "votes": {
     "Roger F. Wicker": 763420,
     "Ty Pinkins": 451981
    }
   }
  ],
  "dataset": "senate-results",
  "version": "2026-10-25.247421eda6"
 },
 "table": {
  "title": "Every Senate race since 1976",
  "columns": [
   "Race",
   "Winner",
   "Runner-up",
   "Margin",
   "Votes"
  ],
  "num": [
   3,
   4
  ],
  "rows": [
   [
    "2024",
    "Roger F. Wicker (R) 62.8%",
    "Ty Pinkins (D) 37.2%",
    "25.6 pts",
    "1,215,401"
   ],
   [
    "2020",
    "Cindy Hyde-smith (R) 54.1%",
    "Mike Espy (D) 44.1%",
    "10.0 pts",
    "1,311,354"
   ],
   [
    "2018 special",
    "Cindy Hyde-smith (R) 53.6%",
    "Mike Espy (D) 46.4%",
    "7.3 pts",
    "907,588"
   ],
   [
    "2018",
    "Roger F. Wicker (R) 58.5%",
    "David Baria (D) 39.5%",
    "19.0 pts",
    "936,215"
   ],
   [
    "2014",
    "Thad Cochran (R) 59.9%",
    "Travis W. Childers (D) 37.9%",
    "22.0 pts",
    "631,858"
   ],
   [
    "2012",
    "Roger F. Wicker (R) 57.2%",
    "Albert N. Gore Jr. (D) 40.6%",
    "16.6 pts",
    "1,241,568"
   ],
   [
    "2008 special",
    "Roger F. Wicker (R) 55.0%",
    "Ronnie Musgrove (I) 45.0%",
    "9.9 pts",
    "1,243,473"
   ],
   [
    "2008",
    "Thad Cochran (R) 61.4%",
    "Erik Fleming (D) 38.6%",
    "22.9 pts",
    "1,247,026"
   ],
   [
    "2006",
    "Trent Lott (R) 63.6%",
    "Erik R. Fleming (D) 34.9%",
    "28.7 pts",
    "610,921"
   ],
   [
    "2002",
    "Thad Cochran (R) 84.6%",
    "Shawn O'hara (I) 15.4%",
    "69.2 pts",
    "630,495"
   ],
   [
    "2000",
    "Trent Lott (R) 65.9%",
    "Troy D. Brown Sr. (D) 31.6%",
    "34.3 pts",
    "994,144"
   ],
   [
    "1996",
    "Thad Cochran (R) 71.0%",
    "James W. (bootie) Hunt (D) 27.4%",
    "43.6 pts",
    "878,662"
   ],
   [
    "1994",
    "Trent Lott (R) 68.8%",
    "Ken Harper (D) 31.2%",
    "37.6 pts",
    "608,085"
   ],
   [
    "1990",
    "Thad Cochran (R) 100.0%",
    "unopposed",
    "100.0 pts",
    "274,244"
   ],
   [
    "1988",
    "Trent Lott (R) 53.9%",
    "Wayne Dowdy (D) 46.1%",
    "7.8 pts",
    "946,719"
   ],
   [
    "1984",
    "Thad Cochran (R) 60.9%",
    "William F. Winter (D) 39.1%",
    "21.9 pts",
    "952,240"
   ],
   [
    "1982",
    "John C. Stennis (D) 64.2%",
    "Haley Barbour (R) 35.8%",
    "28.4 pts",
    "645,026"
   ],
   [
    "1978",
    "Thad Cochran (R) 45.3%",
    "Maurice Dantin (D) 31.8%",
    "13.5 pts",
    "590,236"
   ],
   [
    "1976",
    "John C. Stennis (D) 100.0%",
    "unopposed",
    "100.0 pts",
    "554,433"
   ]
  ]
 },
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  "now": "/data/places/us-ms/senate.json",
  "source": "https://api.electiondata.dev/v1/senate-results/download/senate-results.csv",
  "source_label": "Every Senate race, every state, from electiondata.dev (live, no key)"
 },
 "generated_at": "2026-10-26T20:05:12+00:00"
}