1971 general · November 2, 1971
1971 Mississippi State Senate election results, district by district
Every Mississippi State Senate district in the 1971 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.
Seats after the election
Democrats controlled the chamber · 52 seats
After the electionD 50 · R 2
Races35
Changed party0
Unopposed66%23 races
Incumbents defeated2
Every district
D 50 · R 2
| Race | Winner | Won by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| SD-1 | Bobby Gerald Perry · George M. Yarbrough (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-2 | James Ewell Bost (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-3 | Theodore Smith (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-4 | Charles E. McCoy · Danny Joe Maxcy Sr. (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-5 | Perrin Purvis (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-6 | William Garner Burgin Jr. · Robert B. Hardy (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-7 | W. Butler (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-8 | Charles Ray Nix (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-9 | Jack N. Tucker (D) | 26.6 | |
| SD-10 | James E. Molpus (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-11 | William B. Alexander · Robert L. Crook (D) | 13.0 | |
| SD-12 | John Kenneth Gresham · Willard L. McIlwain (D) | 18.4 | |
| SD-13 | Corbet Lee Patridge (D) | 64.7 | |
| SD-14 | Donald Strider (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-15 | Herman B. Decell · Ray Hilman Montgomery (DEM) | 10.1 | |
| SD-16 | Tommy Brooks (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-17 | Ebb Horton (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-18 | John Paul Moore (D) | 35.3 | |
| SD-19 | Fred Rogers · Gordon White (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-20 | Robert M. Logan (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-21 | Daniel Rouse Boyce (D) | 76.0 | |
| SD-22 | Stephen L. Beach · Jim Noblin · James C. Maloney Jr. · Sam W. Wright · Don Spann (D) | 5.9 | Incumbent lost |
| SD-23 | Ellis Bodron (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-24 | James L. Caldwell · Thomas William Hickman Jr. (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-25 | Troy B. Watkins · John William Powell (D) | 16.5 | |
| SD-26 | R. B. Reeves (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-27A | Charles Willis Pickering (R) | 33.1 | Incumbent lost |
| SD-27B | Quin Emerson Stringer Jr. (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-27C | Ike S. Sanford (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-28 | Dale Ford (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-29 | George Cecil McLeod Jr. (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-30 | Carroll Ingram · Ray B. Chatham (D) | 21.2 | |
| SD-31 | Martin Smith (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-32 | Sanford R. Steckler · Napoleon L. Cassibry II · Ben Harry Stone (D) | 26.0 | |
| SD-33 | William C. Rhodes · Kenneth Barkley Robertson (D) | Unopposed |
Mississippi State Senate
Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner