Columbus-Tupelo-West Point-Houston · 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
97.1%
36,432 votes · D+94.5
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 96.7%
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
83.2%
61,115 votes · R+67.9
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 82.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
88,291votes
39.0% of the vote · R+21.0
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 86,986 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
145,239votes
64.0% of the vote · R+29.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 143,552 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
John W. Davis1924
+108.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+83.5 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1896 · +90.1 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+90.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+67.9 · U.S. D+22.6
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · +43.2 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.
Columbus-Tupelo-West Point-Houston · 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 Columbus-Tupelo-West Point-Houston, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama10Clinton980,913 votes · 19 of 19 countiesprimary
○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.
Where a cell reads All others, no named candidate led — the source’s residual bucket did. That bucket holds every name past the ones the contest itemises, including candidates who had withdrawn but still drew votes. It is a total, not a person, so it carries no candidate colour.
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
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Columbus-Tupelo-West Point-Houston
Year
Total registered
2016 (partial)
330,380
2018
338,275
2020
345,462
2022
335,103
2024
341,294
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+165 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −14,946 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Columbus-Tupelo-West Point-Houston in Columbus-Tupelo-West Point-Houston: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−1,651
2012
−197
2013
−606
2014
−1,907
2015
−1,339
2016
−1,062
2017
−1,282
2018
−2,765
2019
−1,483
2021
−569
2022
−1,281
2023
−515
2024
−454
2025
+165
This northeast Mississippi media market anchors one of the most reliably one-sided voting regions in the Deep South, with a population split between small manufacturing towns and agricultural communities that has shifted little in statewide contests over the past two decades.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 94.5 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 67.9 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 7.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 36.5 points.
A population of 483,527, a 63% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $53,212 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Monroe-El Dorado and Shreveport.
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How did Columbus-Tupelo-West Point-Houston, Mississippi vote in 2024?
In 2024, Columbus-Tupelo-West Point-Houston, Mississippi voted Republican by 36.5 points (R+36.5), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 211,817 votes cast, 66,276 went Democratic and 143,552 went Republican.
When did Columbus-Tupelo-West Point-Houston, Mississippi last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Columbus-Tupelo-West Point-Houston, Mississippi voted Democratic was 1980.
How many people live in Columbus-Tupelo-West Point-Houston, Mississippi?
Columbus-Tupelo-West Point-Houston, Mississippi has a population of 483,527 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Columbus-Tupelo-West Point-Houston, Mississippi?
Median household income in Columbus-Tupelo-West Point-Houston, Mississippi is $53,212 — below the national median of $80,734. The Mississippi state median is $56,447.
What is the political history of Columbus-Tupelo-West Point-Houston, Mississippi?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Columbus-Tupelo-West Point-Houston, Mississippi from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 19 went Democratic and 13 went Republican.