Tunica County, Mississippi: Black Belt county. In 2024, voted D+39%. Democratic peak: D+100 in 1916.
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+39MIT Election Lab
- Political typology
- Black BeltAkashic typology
- Population
- 9,4752024 5-year
- Median household income
- $39,3642024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 18.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 79.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 1.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+100 in 1916MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+81 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Holmes County, MS · similarity 1.00
2024 results by precinct
2024 precinct map of Tunica CountyPrecinct-level 2024 presidential results for Tunica County, with each precinct boundary colored by Democratic-vs-Republican margin.
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Margin—
Turnout—
Harris +50Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1876–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
| Year | Margin (D minus R) |
|---|---|
| 1876 | No data |
| 1880 | No data |
| 1884 | No data |
| 1888 | No data |
| 1892 | +74.0% |
| 1896 | +46.5% |
| 1900 | +68.5% |
| 1904 | No data |
| 1908 | No data |
| 1912 | +96.9% |
| 1916 | +100.0% |
| 1920 | +98.1% |
| 1924 | +94.9% |
| 1928 | +92.4% |
| 1932 | +97.2% |
| 1936 | +98.6% |
| 1940 | +96.8% |
| 1944 | +90.7% |
| 1948 | +1.5% |
| 1952 | +16.1% |
| 1956 | +32.3% |
| 1960 | −1.2% |
| 1964 | −81.0% |
| 1968 | +30.9% |
| 1972 | −25.3% |
| 1976 | +27.0% |
| 1980 | +38.8% |
| 1984 | +18.3% |
| 1988 | +25.3% |
| 1992 | +33.8% |
| 1996 | +37.4% |
| 2000 | +31.6% |
| 2004 | +38.0% |
| 2008 | +52.2% |
| 2012 | +59.2% |
| 2016 | +50.9% |
| 2020 | +49.2% |
| 2024 | +38.9% |
DemocraticRepublican
38 presidential elections
| Year | Won | Margin | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D | 1,837 | 799 | 2,668 | ||
| D | 2,580 | 826 | 3,565 | ||
| D | 2,667 | 853 | 3,567 | ||
| D | 3,475 | 883 | 4,382 | ||
| D | 3,279 | 1,017 | 4,332 | ||
| D | 2,140 | 950 | 3,129 | ||
| D | 1,539 | 792 | 2,366 | ||
| D | 1,263 | 557 | 1,886 | ||
| D | 1,451 | 693 | 2,243 | ||
| D | 1,510 | 896 | 2,430 | ||
| D | 1,621 | 1,109 | 2,804 | ||
| D | 2,198 | 954 | 3,205 | ||
| D | 1,695 | 951 | 2,756 | ||
| R | 858 | 1,446 | 2,325 | ||
| D | 1,133 | 413 | 2,329 | ||
| R | 99 | 945 | 1,044 | ||
| R | 323 | 334 | 897 | ||
| D | 470 | 200 | 836 | ||
| D | 530 | 383 | 913 | ||
| O | 23 | 12 | 750 | ||
| D | 721 | 35 | 756 | ||
| D | 795 | 13 | 808 | ||
| D | 701 | 5 | 706 | ||
| D | 573 | 8 | 581 | ||
| D | 654 | 26 | 680 | ||
| D | 495 | 13 | 508 | ||
| D | 256 | 2 | 259 | ||
| D | 173 | 0 | 173 | ||
| D | 188 | 1 | 193 | ||
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| D | 197 | 36 | 235 | ||
| D | 174 | 62 | 241 | ||
| D | 124 | 13 | 150 | ||
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Demographics
2024 ACS
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
English
5.9%
American
3.1%
Irish
3.0%
German
2.1%
Italian
1.6%
Scottish
1.2%
African American
63.9%
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so these shares can total more than 100%. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
2024 ACS
Age distribution by sex
Median age: 36.3 in this county, 39.1 nationally
Male
Age
Female
85+
75–84
65–74
55–64
45–54
35–44
25–34
18–24
5–17
<5
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Median household income
Inflation-adjusted dollars
$39,364
Tunica County ranks in the bottom 5% of US counties.
Tunica County$39,364
Mississippi$56,447
United States$80,734
Tunica County ranks in the bottom 5% of US counties by median household income.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Poverty rate
All persons below federal poverty line
31.1%
Nearly half of children live in poverty.
Children under 1847.1%
Working age (18–64)24.2%
Seniors (65+)41.5%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
97.3%
speak English only
Spanish2.7%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
2020 religion census
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 77.0% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.
Tunica County, anchored in the Mississippi Delta, is roughly 75% Black and has voted Democratic by double-digit margins in every recent presidential cycle, with its 2024 gap of nearly 39 points ranking among the state's largest.
The Democratic margin here reached 100 points in 1916. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved ten points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was thirty-nine points. The recent movement, modest against a deep Democratic baseline, mirrors a broader rightward drift across the Black Belt.
The economic context is part of the story: a median household income of $39,364 and a 31% poverty rate. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Holmes County and Alameda County.
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Frequently asked questions
How did Tunica County, Mississippi vote in 2024?
In 2024, Tunica County, Mississippi voted Democratic by 38.9 points (D+39), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 2,668 votes cast, 1,837 went Democratic and 799 went Republican.
What is Tunica County, Mississippi's political typology?
Akashic places Tunica County, Mississippi in the "Black Belt" typology — Black-majority counties of the rural South — long the most Democratic ground in the region, now trending Republican at the margins. The typology is a data-driven cluster built from vote share, vote swing, race and ethnicity, income, language spoken at home, religion, and ancestry. Across 38 elections in the dataset, the county has voted Democratic 28 times, Republican 3 times, and other 1 times.
When did Tunica County, Mississippi last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Tunica County, Mississippi voted Republican was 1972.
How many people live in Tunica County, Mississippi?
Tunica County, Mississippi has a population of 9,475 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Tunica County, Mississippi?
Median household income in Tunica County, Mississippi is $39,364 — below the national median of $80,734. The Mississippi state median is $56,447.
What is the political history of Tunica County, Mississippi?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Tunica County, Mississippi from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 28 went Democratic and 3 went Republican. The county's typology — "Black Belt" — captures where that record, its demographics, and its recent swing place it among American communities.