Laurel, 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 Laurel, MS, by party and cycle.
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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 Laurel, MS
Year
Total registered
2016
55,958
2018
55,018
2020
57,476
2022
56,454
2024
57,642
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+238 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −3,471 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Laurel, MS in Laurel, MS: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−393
2012
−95
2013
+130
2014
−757
2015
+48
2016
−392
2017
−313
2018
−419
2019
−221
2021
−458
2022
−233
2023
−250
2024
−356
2025
+238
The Laurel metro, anchored by Jones County, has posted some of Mississippi's wider Republican margins in recent cycles, reflecting a working-class white majority in a historically timber-and-oil economy along the Piney Woods corridor.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 93.1 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 74.4 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 4.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 37.6 points.
A population of 82,531, a 59% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $51,524 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Thomasville, GA and Tifton, GA.
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In 2024, Laurel, MS, Mississippi voted Republican by 37.6 points (R+37.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 35,645 votes cast, 10,994 went Democratic and 24,383 went Republican.
When did Laurel, MS, Mississippi last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Laurel, MS, Mississippi voted Democratic was 1960.
How many people live in Laurel, MS, Mississippi?
Laurel, MS, Mississippi has a population of 82,531 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Laurel, MS, Mississippi?
Median household income in Laurel, MS, Mississippi is $51,524 — below the national median of $80,734. The Mississippi state median is $56,447.
What is the political history of Laurel, MS, Mississippi?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Laurel, MS, Mississippi from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 15 went Democratic and 15 went Republican.
