Natchez, MS-LA · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Grover Cleveland1892
96.3%
4,480 votes · D+93.4
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · 95.9%
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
85.0%
11,180 votes · R+70.0
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 63.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
16,845votes
57.6% of the vote · D+15.8
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 16,670 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
16,473votes
53.2% of the vote · R+7.2
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 14,152 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Alton B. Parker1904
+113.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+94.1 · U.S. R+19.7
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +108.4 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+92.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+70.0 · U.S. D+22.6
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · +7.6 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
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U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Some U.S. House rows cover a contest held in only part of this Place — the votes are real, but the total is not place-wide because the rest of the Place had no such race that year.
Natchez, MS-LA · 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 Natchez, MS-LA, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama311,910 votes · 3 of 3 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Clinton37,824 votes · 3 of 3 countiesprimary
Biden37,532 votes · 3 of 3 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○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
By party of registration, over time
Registered voters
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Natchez, MS-LA
Year
Total registered
2016 (partial)
28,043
2018 (partial)
26,755
2020 (partial)
27,153
2022 (partial)
25,500
2024
41,488
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−420 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −9,129 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Natchez, MS-LA in Natchez, MS-LA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−316
2012
−709
2013
−83
2014
−310
2015
−1,060
2016
−574
2017
−794
2018
−903
2019
−853
2021
−997
2022
−673
2023
−462
2024
−975
2025
−420
Straddling the Mississippi River across two states, the Natchez metro's electorate is majority-Black, a demographic reality that has driven double-digit Democratic presidential margins even as rural Mississippi trends sharply the other direction.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 94.1 points in 1904 and a Republican high of 70.0 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 3.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 6.8 points.
A population of 54,045, a 40% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $41,701 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Greenwood, MS and Selma, AL.
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In 2024, Natchez, MS-LA, Mississippi voted Democratic by 6.8 points (D+6.8), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 22,982 votes cast, 12,168 went Democratic and 10,596 went Republican.
When did Natchez, MS-LA, Mississippi last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Natchez, MS-LA, Mississippi voted Republican was 1984.
How many people live in Natchez, MS-LA, Mississippi?
Natchez, MS-LA, Mississippi has a population of 54,045 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Natchez, MS-LA, Mississippi?
Median household income in Natchez, MS-LA, Mississippi is $41,701 — below the national median of $80,734. The Mississippi state median is $60,756.
What is the political history of Natchez, MS-LA, Mississippi?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Natchez, MS-LA, Mississippi from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 26 went Democratic and 5 went Republican.
