Mississippi, U.S. Senate

There were two elections for the U.S. Senate in Mississippi in 2018. The first was the regularly scheduled election on November 6, 2018, to fill the state's Class I seat held by Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.). The Democratic and Republican primaries for that election were June 5, 2018. The second, a nonpartisan special election on November 6, 2018, filled the Class II seat left vacant by Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.). A runoff in this election was held on November 27, 2018. The winner of the special election will serve the remainder of Cochran's term until January 3, 2021.

Voters in Mississippi elected one member to the U.S. Senate in the election on November 6, 2018.

The election filled the Class 1 Senate seat held by Roger Wicker (R). He was first appointed in 2007.

Endorsements

Roger Wicker

President Donald Trump (R)

Polls

U.S. Senate election in Mississippi, 2018

Poll	Wicker	Baria	O'Hara	Bedwell	Undecided/Other	Margin of Error	Sample Size
Y'all Politics July 30-31, 2018	53%	32%	2%	1%	12%	+/-3.5	2,100

Campaign finance

The chart below contains data from financial reports submitted to the Federal Election Commission.

Name	Party	Receipts*	Disbursements**	Cash on hand	Date
Roger Wicker	Republican Party	$6,113,589	$5,881,445	$1,852,578	As of December 31, 2018
David Baria	Democratic Party	$904,539	$876,607	$28,932	As of December 31, 2018
Danny Bedwell	Libertarian Party	$0	$0	$0	Data not available
Shawn O'Hara	Reform Party	$0	$0	$0	Data not available
Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2018. * According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee." ** According to the FEC, a disbursement "is a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit or gift of money or anything of value to influence a federal election," plus other kinds of payments not made to influence a federal election.

Election history

2014

U.S. Senate, Mississippi General Election, 2014

Party	Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Republican	Thad Cochran Incumbent	59.9%	378,481
	Democratic	Travis Childers	37.9%	239,439
	Reform	Shawn O'Hara	2.2%	13,938
Total Votes			631,858
Source: Mississippi Secretary of State Official Results

2012

U.S. Senate, Mississippi General Election, 2012

Party	Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Republican	Roger Wicker	57.2%	709,626
	Democratic	Albert N. Gore, Jr.	40.6%	503,467
	Constitution	Thomas Cramer	1.2%	15,281
	Reform	Shawn O'Hara	1.1%	13,194
Total Votes			1,241,568
Source: Mississippi Secretary of State "Official Election Results, 2012 General Election"

Demographics

Demographic data for Mississippi

	Mississippi	U.S.
Total population:	2,989,390	316,515,021
Land area (sq mi):	46,923	3,531,905
Gender
Female:	51.4%	50.8%
Race and ethnicity**
White:	59.2%	73.6%
Black/African American:	37.4%	12.6%
Asian:	1%	5.1%
Native American:	0.4%	0.8%
Pacific Islander:	0%	0.2%
Two or more:	1.2%	3%
Hispanic/Latino:	2.9%	17.1%
Education
High school graduation rate:	82.3%	86.7%
College graduation rate:	20.7%	29.8%
Income
Median household income:	$39,665	$53,889
Persons below poverty level:	27%	11.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2010-2015) for more information on the 2020 census and here for more on its impact on the redistricting process in Mississippi.

As of July 2016, Mississippi's three largest cities were Jackson (pop. est. 170,000), Gulfport (pop. est. 72,000), and Southaven (pop. est. 54,000).