Meridian, 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 Meridian, 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 Meridian, MS
Year
Total registered
2016
68,069
2018
61,243
2020
60,597
2022
57,193
2024
58,670
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−267 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −11,084 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Meridian, MS in Meridian, MS: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+7
2012
−879
2013
−289
2014
−1,282
2015
−1,365
2016
−1,211
2017
−1,187
2018
−1,354
2019
−1,180
2021
−417
2022
−726
2023
−469
2024
−465
2025
−267
The Jackson-area metro consistently posts some of the highest shares of Black residents of any mid-sized Southern market, shaping an electorate where turnout patterns and demographic composition draw close scrutiny every cycle.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 97.5 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 80.4 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 5.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 24.2 points.
A population of 86,818, a 53% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $49,986 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of LaGrange, GA-AL and Thomasville, GA.
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In 2024, Meridian, MS, Mississippi voted Republican by 24.2 points (R+24.2), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 34,978 votes cast, 13,107 went Democratic and 21,580 went Republican.
When did Meridian, MS, Mississippi last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Meridian, MS, Mississippi voted Democratic was 1956.
How many people live in Meridian, MS, Mississippi?
Meridian, MS, Mississippi has a population of 86,818 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Meridian, MS, Mississippi?
Median household income in Meridian, MS, Mississippi is $49,986 — below the national median of $80,734. The Mississippi state median is $56,447.
What is the political history of Meridian, MS, Mississippi?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Meridian, MS, Mississippi from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 14 went Democratic and 15 went Republican.
