Columbus, MS · how this place’s counties split between candidates 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 there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Columbus, 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 Columbus, MS
Year
Total registered
2016
55,419
2018
51,811
2020
52,128
2022
52,101
2024
50,898
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−75 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −7,638 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Columbus, MS in Columbus, MS: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−641
2012
−596
2013
−318
2014
−395
2015
−636
2016
−480
2017
−758
2018
−823
2019
−590
2021
−651
2022
−629
2023
−571
2024
−475
2025
−75
Columbus anchors a corner of the Mississippi Black Belt where racial and partisan sorting produce some of the most lopsided federal results in the state, yet local and county contests remain genuinely competitive across demographic lines.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 95.3 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 86.2 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 6.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 0.4 points.
A population of 67,863, a 46% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $50,861 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Vicksburg, MS and Natchez, MS-LA.
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In 2024, Columbus, MS, Mississippi voted a near-tie (D+0.4), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 28,875 votes cast, 14,365 went Democratic and 14,238 went Republican.
When did Columbus, MS, Mississippi last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Columbus, MS, Mississippi voted Republican was 2004.
How many people live in Columbus, MS, Mississippi?
Columbus, MS, Mississippi has a population of 67,863 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Columbus, MS, Mississippi?
Median household income in Columbus, MS, Mississippi is $50,861 — below the national median of $80,734. The Mississippi state median is $56,447.
What is the political history of Columbus, MS, Mississippi?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Columbus, MS, Mississippi from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 18 went Democratic and 12 went Republican.
