1983 general · June 21, 1983

1983 Mississippi State Senate election results, district by district

Every Mississippi State Senate district in the 1983 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Democrats controlled the chamber · 52 seats

After the electionD 50 · R 2
Races52
Changed party0
Unopposed71%37 races
Incumbents defeated0

Every district

D 50 · R 2

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
SD-1George Guerieri (D)Unopposed
SD-2William Minor (D)Unopposed
SD-3Walter A. Graham (D)Unopposed
SD-4Irb Benjamin (D)Unopposed
SD-5John White (D)Unopposed
SD-6Perrin Purvis (D)Unopposed
SD-7Hob Bryan (D)12.8
SD-8Carl J. Gordon Jr. (D)Unopposed
SD-9Johnny Morgan (D)44.9
SD-10Charles Ray Nix (D)Unopposed
SD-11Malcolm Mabryboone Jr. (R)18.8
SD-12Nevin Sledge (D)38.4
SD-13Robert L. Crook (D)Unopposed
SD-14Robert G. Huggins (D)24.4
SD-15John T. Keeton Jr. (D)Unopposed
SD-16Bill Harpole (D)Unopposed
SD-17William Canon (D)Unopposed
SD-18V. C. Manning (D)59.1
SD-19Tommy Brooks (D)Unopposed
SD-20Bob Montgomery (D)74.6
SD-21Ollie Mohamed (D)Unopposed
SD-22Howard Dyer (D)Unopposed
SD-23John Kenneth Gresham (D)Unopposed
SD-24Ken Harper (D)41.2
SD-25James C. Maloney Jr. (D)Unopposed
SD-26Cy Rosenblatt (D)33.5
SD-27Doug Anderson (D)78.8
SD-28Henry Kirksey (D)Unopposed
SD-29Wayne Burkes (D)Unopposed
SD-30Aubrey Mitch Childre (D)Unopposed
SD-31Alan Heflin (D)Unopposed
SD-32Eddie Briggs (D)Unopposed
SD-33Glen Deweese (D)Unopposed
SD-34Billy Thames (D)Unopposed
SD-35Robert H. Smith (D)Unopposed
SD-36James D. Disharoon (D)56.2
SD-37Robert M. Dearing (D)74.0
SD-38John William Powell (D)Unopposed
SD-39W. L. Rayborn (D)Unopposed
SD-40Quin Emerson Stringer Jr. (D)Unopposed
SD-41Ronald C. Shows (D)Unopposed
SD-42F. M. Smith Jr. (D)6.0
SD-43Cecil Mills (D)Unopposed
SD-44David Smith (D)Unopposed
SD-45Paul R. Lambert (D)Unopposed
SD-46Gene Taylor (D)39.8
SD-47Martin Smith (D)Unopposed
SD-48George Smith (D)31.9
SD-49Bob Usey (R)Unopposed
SD-50Thomas A. Gollott (D)Unopposed
SD-51Stephen Hale (D)Unopposed
SD-52Louis Fortenberry (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