Mississippi's 2nd congressional district

Mississippi's 2nd congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The district is in almost all of western Mississippi. It includes most of Jackson, Greenville and Vicksburg, Clarksdale, Greenwood, and Clinton. The district's border goes along the Mississippi River. The people who live in the district elect a person to represent the district in the United States House of Representatives. The district's current representative is Democrat Bennie Thompson.

Mississippi's 2nd congressional district
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Mississippi's 2nd congressional district since January 3, 2013
Representative
  Bennie Thompson
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Distribution
  • 62.67% urban
  • 37.33% rural
Population (2019)692,452[1]
Median income$37,372[1]
Ethnicity
Cook PVID+14[2]

Election history

2000

2000 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi: District 2
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democrat Bennie Thompson (Incumbent) 112,777 65.07
Republican Hardy Caraway 54,090 31.21
Libertarian William G. Chipman 4,305 2.48
Reform Lee F. Dilworth 2,135 1.23
Turnout 173,307
Majority 58,687 33.86

2002

2002 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi: District 2
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democrat Bennie Thompson (Incumbent) 89,913 55.14 -9.93
Republican Clinton B. LeSueur 69,711 42.75 +11.54
Reform Lee F. Dilworth 3,426 2.10 +0.87
Turnout 163,050
Majority 20,202 12.39

2004

2004 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi: District 2
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democrat Bennie Thompson (Incumbent) 154,626 58.38 +3.24
Republican Clinton B. LeSueur 107,647 40.64 -2.11
Reform Shawn O'Hara 2,596 0.98 -1.12
Turnout 264,869
Majority 46,979 17.74

2006

2006 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi: District 2
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democrat Bennie Thompson (Incumbent) 100,168 64.27 +5.89
Republican Yvonne R. Brown 55,672 35.73 -4.91
Turnout 155,832
Majority 44,496 28.55

2008

2008 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi: District 2
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democrat Bennie Thompson (Incumbent) 201,606 69.05 +4.78
Republican Richard Cook 90,364 30.95 -4.78
Turnout 291,970
Majority 111,242 38.10

2010

2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi: District 2
Party Candidate Votes %
Democrat Bennie Thompson (Incumbent) 105,327 61.47
Republican Bill Marcy 64,499 37.64
Reform Ashley Norwood 1,530 0.89
Total votes 171,356 100.00
Democrat hold

2012

2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi: District 2
Party Candidate Votes %
Democrat Bennie Thompson (Incumbent) 214,978 67.13
Republican Bill Marcy 99,160 30.96
style="background-color: Template:Independent (United States)/meta/color; width: 2px;" | [[Independent (United States)|Template:Independent (United States)/meta/shortname]] Cobby Williams 4,605 1.44
Reform Lajena Williams 1,501 0.47
Total votes 320,244 100.00
Democrat hold

2014

2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi: District 2
Party Candidate Votes %
Democrat Bennie Thompson (Incumbent) 100,688 67.7
style="background-color: Template:Independent (United States)/meta/color; width: 2px;" | [[Independent (United States)|Template:Independent (United States)/meta/shortname]] Troy Ray 36,465 24.5
Reform Shelley Shoemake 11,493 7.7
Total votes 148,646 100.00
Democrat hold

2016

2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi: District 2
Party Candidate Votes %
Democrat Bennie Thompson (Incumbent) 192,343 67.1
Republican John Bouie II 83,542 29.1
style="background-color: Template:Independent (United States)/meta/color; width: 2px;" | [[Independent (United States)|Template:Independent (United States)/meta/shortname]] Troy Ray 6,918 2.4
Reform Johnny McLeod 3,823 1.3
Total votes 286,626 100.00
Democrat hold

2018

2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi: District 2
Party Candidate Votes %
Democrat Bennie Thompson (Incumbent) 158,921 71.8
style="background-color: Template:Independent (United States)/meta/color; width: 2px;" | [[Independent (United States)|Template:Independent (United States)/meta/shortname]] Troy Ray 48,104 21.7
Reform Irving Harris 14,354 6.5
Total votes 221,379 100.00
Democrat hold

2020

2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi: District 2
Party Candidate Votes %
Democrat Bennie Thompson (Incumbent) 196,331 66.2
Republican Brian Flowers 101,037 33.9
Total votes 297,368 100.00
Democrat hold

Mississippi's 2nd Congressional District Media

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "My Congressional District".
  2. "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.