2007Flipped from DemocraticFinal resultsIncumbent defeated
2007 election for Mississippi House District 1
Mississippi House of Representatives · Mississippi
Bubba Carpenter (R) won with 53.8% of the vote, defeating Ricky Cummings (D) by 7.7 points, a seat Democrats won last time.
Bubba CarpenterRepublican · winner
53.8%3,929
Ricky CummingsDemocrat · incumbent
46.2%3,369
7,298 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 2007
Races before and after
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET