Brookhaven, MS · which candidate this place backed in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain, and this place is a single county: Lincoln County, Mississippi. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Brookhaven, MS, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Brookhaven, MS
Year
Total registered
2016
25,026
2018
22,447
2020
23,186
2022
22,768
2024
23,549
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−2 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −685 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Brookhaven, MS in Brookhaven, MS: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−73
2012
−115
2013
−181
2014
−41
2015
−203
2016
−145
2017
−66
2018
−132
2019
−71
2021
+229
2022
−28
2023
+2
2024
+141
2025
−2
Brookhaven anchors Lincoln County, a small city where the 2024 presidential result landed 40 points left of center — an unusually deep margin for a nonurban Mississippi community, shaped in part by its majority-Black voting population.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 93.8 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 87.8 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 6.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 45.4 points.
A population of 34,877, a 67% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $51,119 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Thomaston, GA and Alexander City, AL.
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In 2024, Brookhaven, MS, Mississippi voted Republican by 45.4 points (R+45.4), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 15,802 votes cast, 4,262 went Democratic and 11,432 went Republican.
When did Brookhaven, MS, Mississippi last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Brookhaven, MS, Mississippi voted Democratic was 1956.
How many people live in Brookhaven, MS, Mississippi?
Brookhaven, MS, Mississippi has a population of 34,877 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Brookhaven, MS, Mississippi?
Median household income in Brookhaven, MS, Mississippi is $51,119 — below the national median of $80,734. The Mississippi state median is $56,447.
What is the political history of Brookhaven, MS, Mississippi?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Brookhaven, MS, Mississippi from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 14 went Democratic and 15 went Republican.
