1995Flipped from RepublicanFinal resultsIncumbent defeated

1995 election for Mississippi Senate District 9

Mississippi State Senate · Mississippi

Gray Tollison (D) won with 58.1% of the vote, defeating Kay Cobb (R) by 16.2 points, a seat Republicans won last time.

Gray TollisonDemocrat · winner
58.1%9,666
Kay CobbRepublican · incumbent
41.9%6,976
16,642 votes

Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET

The seat over time

D − R margin in this seat's races around 1995

Races before and after

EvenD+17.11987R+3.01991R+9.11992D+16.21995D+21.81999D+20.62003

Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET