1979 primaries · May 1, 1979
1979 Mississippi State Senate primary results, district by district
Every Mississippi State Senate district in the 1979 primaries: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.
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Every district
| Race | Winner | Won by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| SD-1 · Democratic primary | No winner recorded | — | |
| SD-2 · Democratic primary | No winner recorded | — | Incumbent lost |
| SD-3 · Democratic primary | No winner recorded | — | Incumbent lost |
| SD-4 · Democratic primary | Theodore Smith (D) | 12.3 | |
| SD-5 · Democratic primary | Bill May (D) | 7.9 | |
| SD-7 · Democratic primary | John E. Johnson (D) | 22.5 | |
| SD-8 · Democratic primary | Carl J. Gordon Jr. (D) | 12.2 | |
| SD-9 · Democratic primary | Edgar H. Overstreet (D) | 8.2 | |
| SD-13 · Democratic primary | Robert L. Crook (D) | 38.6 | |
| SD-15 · Democratic primary | Charles Pittman (D) | 8.6 | Incumbent lost |
| SD-16 · Democratic primary | Billy D. Lancaster (D) | 26.6 | Incumbent lost |
| SD-17 · Democratic primary | Bill Harpole (D) | 31.6 | |
| SD-21 · Democratic primary | No winner recorded | — | Incumbent lost |
| SD-23 · Democratic primary | John Kenneth Gresham (D) | 25.7 | |
| SD-31 · Democratic primary | John Edwin Lee (D) | 6.5 | |
| SD-32 · Democratic primary | No winner recorded | — | Incumbent lost |
| SD-34 · Democratic primary | Billy Thames (D) | 7.5 | Incumbent lost |
| SD-36 · Democratic primary | No winner recorded | — | Incumbent lost |
| SD-38 · Democratic primary | Robert M. Dearing (D) | 35.2 | |
| SD-39 · Democratic primary | John William Powell (D) | 14.2 | |
| SD-40 · Democratic primary | No winner recorded | — | Incumbent lost |
| SD-41 · Democratic primary | No winner recorded | — | Incumbent lost |
| SD-42 · Democratic primary | No winner recorded | — | Incumbent lost |
| SD-44 · Democratic primary | No winner recorded | — | Incumbent lost |
| SD-46 · Democratic primary | David Smith (D) | 12.5 | |
| SD-47 · Democratic primary | Martin Smith (D) | 28.4 |
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