Editing Jefferson County, Mississippi (section)

==Politics==
Jefferson County is overwhelmingly Democratic, and has supported Democratic candidates in presidential elections with at least 80% of the vote since Bill Clinton in 1992, who won 79%. Republicans have not garnered even 25% of the vote in presidential elections since 1972 (when Jefferson was one of only three counties in Mississippi to vote for [[George McGovern]]).

The last Republican to win the county was [[Barry Goldwater]]. Although Goldwater lost nationally in a landslide, he carried the state of Mississippi (and also Jefferson County) in a landslide, winning over 87% of the vote and carrying every county.{{refn| group= note | the statewide popular vote for Barry was 356,528, or 87.14%. Jefferson county saw 94.8% of its voters vote for Goldwater.<ref>https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/datagraph.php?fips=28&year=1964&off=0&elect=0&f=0 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref><ref>https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=28&year=1964&off=0 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref>}} Jefferson County supported him with 95% of the vote. Goldwater's lopsided victory was the result of Mississippi's [[Black suffrage in the United States|decades-long suppression of the voting rights of African Americans]], which only began to be reversed with the passage of the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]].{{refn| group = note| "Despite all of this progress, the South remained segregated, especially when it came to the polls, where African Americans faced violence and intimidation when they attempted to exercise their constitutional right to vote. Poll taxes and literacy tests designed to silence Black voters were common. Without access to the polls, political change in favor of civil rights was slow-to-non-existent. Mississippi was chosen as the site of the Freedom Summer project due to its historically low levels of African American voter registration; in 1962 less than 7 percent of the state's eligible Black voters were registered to vote."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-summer | title=Freedom Summer ‑ Definition, Murders & Results | date=April 16, 2021 }}</ref>}}

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{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|531|3,327|50|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|2016|Democratic|490|3,337|33|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|468|3,951|14|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|551|3,883|44|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|2004|Democratic|630|2,821|18|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|2000|Democratic|600|2,786|22|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|489|2,531|99|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|562|2,796|164|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|702|2,693|6|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1984|Democratic|856|3,049|7|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|751|2,871|102|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|782|2,562|82|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1972|Democratic|1,131|1,457|20|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1968|Democratic|147|2,121|1,112|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|1,258|69|0|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1960|Dixiecrat|137|229|728|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1956|Democratic|189|440|333|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|610|539|0|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1948|Dixiecrat|14|15|967|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|25|766|0|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|7|801|0|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|9|884|1|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|24|753|5|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1928|Democratic|63|830|0|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1924|Democratic|50|497|0|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1920|Democratic|14|430|1|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|3|456|1|Mississippi}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Democratic|2|408|21|Mississippi}}