Starkville-Columbus, 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 Starkville-Columbus, 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 Starkville-Columbus, MS
Year
Total registered
2016
92,568
2018
90,420
2020
92,630
2022
90,128
2024
90,993
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−410 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −11,022 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Starkville-Columbus, MS in Starkville-Columbus, MS: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−1,060
2012
−32
2013
−491
2014
−783
2015
−655
2016
−808
2017
−910
2018
−1,571
2019
−605
2021
−594
2022
−1,177
2023
−1,054
2024
−872
2025
−410
Starkville-Columbus, MS sits in the Deep South. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 95.1 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 84.6 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 6.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 6.2 points.
A population of 129,606, a 52% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $49,807 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Jackson-Vicksburg-Brookhaven, MS and Columbus-Auburn-Opelika, GA-AL.
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How did Starkville-Columbus, MS, Mississippi vote in 2024?
In 2024, Starkville-Columbus, MS, Mississippi voted Republican by 6.2 points (R+6.2), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 52,021 votes cast, 24,088 went Democratic and 27,334 went Republican.
When did Starkville-Columbus, MS, Mississippi last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Starkville-Columbus, MS, Mississippi voted Democratic was 2020.
How many people live in Starkville-Columbus, MS, Mississippi?
Starkville-Columbus, MS, Mississippi has a population of 129,606 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Starkville-Columbus, MS, Mississippi?
Median household income in Starkville-Columbus, MS, Mississippi is $49,807 — below the national median of $80,734. The Mississippi state median is $56,447.
What is the political history of Starkville-Columbus, MS, Mississippi?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Starkville-Columbus, MS, Mississippi from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 17 went Democratic and 12 went Republican.
