United States presidential election in Mississippi, 2016 (New Johannson Scenario)



The 2016 United States presidential election in Mississippi took place on November 8, 2016, as part of the United States presidential election of 2016.

The Democratic Party candidate, Governor John C. Dickenson of Georgia, won the state of Mississippi over incumbent Republican President Edward H. Johannson by a margin of 252,513 votes, or 20.88 percent. Johannson went on to win reelection nationally, with 702 electoral votes and a landslide 22.55 percent lead over Dickenson in the national popular vote.

Dickenson carried 67 of Mississippi's 82 counties, running up huge margins in the northeastern corner and rural areas of the state, where white working-class voters were fiercely loyal to the Democratic Party. President Johannson carried fifteen counties. His main base of support came from the western counties along the Mississippi River, which are predominantly African-American in population, including Hinds County, home to the state capital Jackson. Three counties-Sharkey, Forest, and Lowndes-gave Johannson over sixty percent of the vote.

With 60.44 percent of the popular vote, Mississippi would prove to be Dickenson's strongest state in the 2016 election. The only other states to vote for Dickenson were his home state of Georgia and the adjacent Deep Southern states of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and South Carolina.