Mississippi Democratic primary, 2016
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The 2016 Mississippi Democratic primary took place on March 8 in the U.S. state of Mississippi as one of the Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
On the same day, the Democratic Party held a second primary in Michigan, while the Republican Party held primaries in four states, including their own Mississippi primary.
Opinion polling
| Poll source | Date | 1st | 2nd | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Official Primary results | March 8, 2016 | Hillary Clinton 82.5% |
Bernie Sanders 16.6% |
Others / Uncommitted 0.9% |
| Magellan Strategies[1]
Margin of error: ±4.5%
|
February 29, 2016 | Hillary Clinton 65% |
Bernie Sanders 11% |
Others / Undecided 24% |
| Public Policy Polling[2]
Margin of error: ± 4.3
|
February 14–16, 2016 | Hillary Clinton 60% |
Bernie Sanders 26% |
Results
| Mississippi Democratic primary, March 8, 2016 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Popular vote | Estimated delegates | |||
| Count | Percentage | Pledged | Unpledged | Total | |
| Hillary Clinton | 187,334 | 82.47% | 31 | 3 | 34 |
| Bernie Sanders | 37,748 | 16.62% | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| Willie Wilson | 919 | 0.40% | |||
| Martin O'Malley (withdrawn) | 672 | 0.30% | |||
| Rocky De La Fuente | 481 | 0.21% | |||
| Write-in | 10 | 0.00% | |||
| Total | 227,164 | 100% | 36 | 5 | 41 |
| Source: The Green Papers, Mississippi Secretary of State | |||||
Results by county
| County[3] | Clinton | Votes | Sanders | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adams | 86.7% | 3,013 | 12.6% | 438 |
| Alcorn | 70.8% | 809 | 26.4% | 302 |
| Amite | 89.0% | 1,212 | 9.3% | 127 |
| Attala | 87.7% | 1,519 | 11.3% | 195 |
| Benton | 85.2% | 557 | 14.2% | 93 |
| Bolivar | 85.4% | 3,029 | 13.9% | 493 |
| Calhoun | 84.9% | 748 | 13.6% | 120 |
| Carroll | 90.0% | 828 | 8.9% | 82 |
| Chickasaw | 83.1% | 1,398 | 15.6% | 263 |
| Choctaw | 83.9% | 517 | 15.1% | 93 |
| Claiborne | 90.3% | 1,411 | 9.0% | 141 |
| Clarke | 86.3% | 1,044 | 12.5% | 151 |
| Clay | 86.0% | 2,372 | 12.7% | 351 |
| Coahoma | 82.3% | 2,301 | 15.8% | 442 |
| Copiah | 88.2% | 3,373 | 10.7% | 411 |
| Covington | 88.2% | 1,356 | 10.7% | 164 |
| DeSoto | 73.3% | 5,420 | 26.3% | 1,940 |
| Forrest | 73.1% | 3,708 | 26.1% | 1,323 |
| Franklin | 84.1% | 701 | 14.4% | 120 |
| George | 72.1% | 349 | 25.2% | 122 |
| Greene | 84.0% | 374 | 13.7% | 61 |
| Grenada | 86.0% | 1,634 | 12.9% | 245 |
| Hancock | 62.0% | 893 | 36.8% | 531 |
| Harrison | 74.3% | 6,886 | 25.0% | 2,313 |
| Hinds | 84.1% | 31,386 | 15.3% | 5,723 |
| Holmes | 92.9% | 3,301 | 6.5% | 231 |
| Humphreys | 94.2% | 2,894 | 4.4% | 134 |
| Humphreys | 88.4% | 175 | 10.1% | 20 |
| Itawamba | 69.2% | 377 | 27.7% | 151 |
| Jackson | 76.1% | 4,811 | 22.9% | 1,448 |
| Jasper | 89.6% | 1,976 | 9.2% | 203 |
| Jefferson | 89.0% | 1,550 | 10.1% | 175 |
| Jefferson Davis | 89.2% | 1,806 | 9.4% | 190 |
| Jones | 83.5% | 2,681 | 15.9% | 510 |
| Kemper | 89.2% | 1,008 | 9.4% | 106 |
| Lafayette | 64.3% | 2,451 | 35.0% | 1,336 |
| Lamar | 72.5% | 1,464 | 27.5% | 544 |
| Lauderdale | 83.5% | 3,306 | 15.6% | 619 |
| Lawrence | 85.0% | 1,112 | 13.7% | 179 |
| Leake | 85.4% | 1,614 | 13.8% | 260 |
| Lee | 76.9% | 3,020 | 22.5% | 884 |
| LeFlore | 90.4% | 2,094 | 9.5% | 219 |
| Lincoln | 85.1% | 1,817 | 14.5% | 309 |
| Lowndes | 82.4% | 4,030 | 17.3% | 846 |
| Madison | 83.4% | 7,414 | 16.1% | 1,434 |
| Marion | 87.5% | 1,539 | 11.5% | 202 |
| Marshall | 88.7% | 3,361 | 10.2% | 386 |
| Monroe | 84.9% | 1,913 | 13.8% | 311 |
| Montgomery | 89.0% | 953 | 10.2% | 109 |
| Neshoba | 78.1% | 929 | 20.9% | 248 |
| Newton | 83.5% | 1,000 | 15.2% | 182 |
| Noxubee | 90.5% | 1,397 | 8.7% | 134 |
| Oktibbeha | 75.8% | 2,389 | 23.5% | 739 |
| Panola | 85.8% | 3,061 | 13.4% | 479 |
| Pearl River | 72.4% | 974 | 26.2% | 352 |
| Perry | 82.7% | 401 | 15.9% | 77 |
| Pike | 86.5% | 2,870 | 12.8% | 425 |
| Pontotoc | 71.2% | 733 | 26.3% | 271 |
| Prentiss | 71.0% | 681 | 26.2% | 251 |
| Quitman | 85.3% | 986 | 12.3% | 142 |
| Rankin | 77.1% | 4,689 | 22.3% | 1,356 |
| Scott | 85.5% | 2,013 | 13.1% | 309 |
| Sharkey | 91.4% | 645 | 8.1% | 57 |
| Simpson | 85.3% | 1,855 | 13.5% | 294 |
| Smith | 81.4% | 712 | 16.8% | 147 |
| Stone | 77.5% | 544 | 20.5% | 144 |
| Sunflower | 87.8% | 2,332 | 11.3% | 299 |
| Tallahatchie | 87.4% | 1,341 | 10.8% | 166 |
| Tate | 85.1% | 1,435 | 14.4% | 242 |
| Tippah | 74.9% | 575 | 22.4% | 172 |
| Tishomingo | 61.3% | 361 | 33.4% | 197 |
| Tunica | 77.4% | 904 | 18.8% | 220 |
| Union | 71.3% | 593 | 26.8% | 223 |
| Walthall | 88.5% | 1,111 | 10.5% | 132 |
| Warren | 84.4% | 3,463 | 14.9% | 612 |
| Washington | 87.7% | 2,982 | 12.0% | 409 |
| Wayne | 83.8% | 1,441 | 14.6% | 251 |
| Webster | 81.9% | 397 | 16.3% | 79 |
| Wilkinson | 93.4% | 1,269 | 5.1% | 69 |
| Winston | 86.3% | 1,442 | 12.1% | 202 |
| Yalobusha | 84.2% | 1,214 | 14.9% | 215 |
| Yazoo | 90.8% | 2,203 | 8.4% | 203 |
| Total | 82.5% | 187,334 | 16.6% | 37,748 |
Analysis
After losing badly in Mississippi to Barack Obama eight years earlier, Hillary Clinton managed a 66-point routing against Bernie Sanders in the state in 2016. She carried all counties and won across all demographics, income levels and educational attainment levels. The key to Clinton's success, however, was an 89-11 showing among African American voters, who made up 71% of the Democratic electorate in the state.[4]
Mississippi gave Clinton her largest win in any state during the 2016 primaries.[5]
After his landslide defeat, the Sanders campaign reported that Hillary Clinton had notched wins in southern states including Mississippi because Bernie Sanders did not compete with her, although this claim was widely debunked.[6]
References
- ↑ "MISSISSIPPI 2016 PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY SURVEY TOPLINES" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-03-02.
- ↑ "Subject: Clinton leads in 10 of 12 Early March Primaries; Benefits From Overwhelming Black Support" (PDF).
- ↑ http://www.sos.ms.gov/Elections-Voting/Pages/2016-Democratic-Primary.aspx
- ↑ "2016 Election Center". CNN. Retrieved 2016-09-24.
- ↑ CNN, Jeff Simon, Vanessa Yurkevich and Contessa Gayles. "Southern liberals have a fondness for Hillary Clinton". CNN. Retrieved 2016-09-24.
- ↑ "Sanders campaign rewrites history of Super Tuesday losses". Retrieved 2016-08-07.