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1979 general · October 27, 1979

1979 Mississippi election results

Every race on Mississippi's ballot in the 1979 general election: winners, margins and seats that changed party.

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Races175
Changed party3
Unopposed54%94 races
Incumbents defeated3

Governors

D 1

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
MississippiWilliam Winter (D)22.1

Mississippi State Senate

D 48 · R 4 · 3 changed party

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
SD-1George Guerieri (D)54.1
SD-2William Minor (D)40.9
SD-3John H. Waldrop (D)Unopposed
SD-4Theodore Smith (D)Unopposed
SD-5Bill May (D)Unopposed
SD-6Perrin Purvis (D)62.6
SD-7John E. Johnson (D)Unopposed
SD-8Carl J. Gordon Jr. (D)Unopposed
SD-9Edgar H. Overstreet (D)17.1
SD-10Charles Ray Nix (D)Unopposed
SD-11Malcolm Mabryboone Jr. (R)27.4FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-12William B. Alexander (D)37.6
SD-13Robert L. Crook (D)39.3
SD-14John J. Fraiser Jr. (D)Unopposed
SD-15Charles Pittman (D)Unopposed
SD-16Billy D. Lancaster (D)Unopposed
SD-17Bill Harpole (D)Unopposed
SD-18William Canon (D)Unopposed
SD-19Joe Mulholland (D)68.9
SD-20Bob Montgomery (D)17.1
SD-21Ollie Mohamed (D)Unopposed
SD-22Howard Dyer (D)Unopposed
SD-23John Kenneth Gresham (D)Unopposed
SD-24Ellis Bodron (D)Unopposed
SD-25James C. Maloney Jr. (R)UnopposedFlipped
SD-26Ed Ellington (D)42.6
SD-27Doug Anderson (D)73.3Flipped
SD-28Henry Kirksey (D)28.1
SD-29Wayne Burkes (D)Unopposed
SD-30Tommy Brooks (D)Unopposed
SD-31John Edwin Lee (D)Unopposed
SD-32Algie Davis (D)58.7
SD-33Glen Deweese (D)Unopposed
SD-34Billy Thames (D)45.6
SD-35Aubrey Mitch Childre (D)Unopposed
SD-36James L. Caldwell (D)Unopposed
SD-37James D. Disharoon (D)5.8
SD-38Robert M. Dearing (D)21.6
SD-39John William Powell (D)Unopposed
SD-40W. L. Rayborn (D)30.1
SD-41Quin Emerson Stringer Jr. (D)Unopposed
SD-42Ronald C. Shows (D)Unopposed
SD-43Vincent Gradie Scoper Jr. (R)13.6
SD-44Cecil Mills (D)Unopposed
SD-45Paul R. Lambert (D)23.7
SD-46David Smith (D)53.2
SD-47Martin Smith (D)59.3
SD-48George Smith (D)3.8
SD-49Bob Usey (R)15.9
SD-50Thomas A. Gollott (D)Unopposed
SD-51William C. Rhodes (D)20.0
SD-52Louis Fortenberry (D)48.4

Mississippi House of Representatives

D 116 · R 4 · Other 2

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Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Algara, Carlos; Amlani, Sharif (Harvard Dataverse); Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner