Hattiesburg-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 Hattiesburg-Laurel, 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 Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS
Year
Total registered
2016
151,079
2018
153,205
2020
159,664
2022
155,929
2024
161,142
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+233 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −3,160 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS in Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+642
2012
+216
2013
+462
2014
−1,379
2015
−305
2016
−698
2017
−1,302
2018
−384
2019
−264
2021
+174
2022
+19
2023
−205
2024
−369
2025
+233
Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS sits in the Deep South. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 90.8 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 76.4 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 5.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 36.4 points.
A population of 237,965, a 62% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $57,482 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Mobile-Daphne-Fairhope, AL and Monroe-Ruston, LA.
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How did Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS, Mississippi vote in 2024?
In 2024, Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS, Mississippi voted Republican by 36.4 points (R+36.4), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 97,821 votes cast, 30,585 went Democratic and 66,162 went Republican.
When did Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS, Mississippi last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS, Mississippi voted Democratic was 1960.
How many people live in Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS, Mississippi?
Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS, Mississippi has a population of 237,965 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS, Mississippi?
Median household income in Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS, Mississippi is $57,482 — below the national median of $80,734. The Mississippi state median is $56,447.
What is the political history of Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS, Mississippi?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS, Mississippi from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 15 went Democratic and 15 went Republican.
