The 2015 Mississippi House of Representatives elections were held on November 3, 2015. All 122 seats in the Mississippi House of Representatives were up for election. Primary elections took place on August 4, 2015, with runoffs held on August 25, 2015 if no candidate received a majority.
Background Mississippi Republicans took control of the state legislature for the first time since Reconstruction in the 2011 elections, putting them in control of redistricting. The State House released their proposed map in April 2012, pairing 3 sets of Democratic incumbents and 2 sets of incumbents of both parties together. The Justice Department subsequently approved the maps under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act in September.
The Mississippi Democratic Party focused their 2015 campaigning efforts on trying to regain control of the Mississippi House of Representatives, as the simultaneous gubernatorial election was viewed as non-competitive.
Results Overview + ↓ 73 49 Republican Democratic
Parties Candidates Seats Popular Vote 2011 2015 +/- Strength Votes % Change Republican – 67 73 6 59.8% 363,667 54.49 0.87% Democratic – 54 49 5 40.2% 298,355 44.71 0.40% Independent – 0 0 – 0.00% 4,756 0.71 0.11% Libertarian – 0 0 – 0.00% 600 0.09 0.36% Reform – 0 0 – 0.00% 0 0.00 0.11% Write-ins – 0 0 – 0.00% – – –Total 201 100 100 – 100.00% 667,378 100.00 –Turnout––Registered–
Close races Seats where the margin of victory was under 10%:
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District 53 Republicans had heavily targeted House Democratic leader Bobby Moak, who had been left uncontested in 2011. Republican Vince Mangold ultimately prevailed, in what Mississippi Democratic party chairman Rickey Cole described as an upset victory.
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District 79 District 79 is composed of all of Smith County, and a large chunk of Jasper County, incumbent representative Blaine "Bo" Eaton was last elected with 61% of the vote in 2011. In the certified results published after the election, Eaton and Tullos had tied, each receiving 4,589 votes, as such the race went to a tiebreaker in which each candidate would draw a straw and the person who had the longer straw won. Eaton drew the longer straw, and was sworn in; however, the new Republican supermajority, along with Democrat Angela Cockerham, sat Tullos on January 20th after invalidating 5 votes from voters who, they claimed, had not properly notified election officials of their changed addresses within the district.
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See also
2015 Mississippi elections 2015 Mississippi Senate election 2015 Mississippi gubernatorial election
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