2020 Mississippi Democratic presidential primary
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41 delegates (36 pledged, 5 unpledged)
to the Democratic National Convention
The number of pledged delegates won is determined by the popular vote
 
Candidate Joe Biden Bernie Sanders
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Delegate count 34 2
Popular vote 222,160 40,657
Percentage 81.0% 14.8%
Election results by county
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The 2020 Mississippi Democratic presidential primary took place on March 10, 2020, as one of several states voting the week after Super Tuesday in the Democratic Party primaries for the 2020 presidential election. The Mississippi primary was an open primary, with the state awarding 41 delegates towards the 2020 Democratic National Convention, of which 36 were pledged delegates allocated on the basis of the results of the primary.

Former vice president Joe Biden overwhelmingly won the primary in the southern state and every county with 81% of the vote, winning 34 of the 36 delegates, as he was the only candidate to get above 15% of the vote statewide. Senator Bernie Sanders narrowly missed the 15% threshold, and so he only received 2 district delegates.[1]

Procedure

Mississippi was one of six states (along with Democrats Abroad) which held primaries on March 10, 2020, one week after Super Tuesday.[2] Voting took place throughout the state from 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. In the open primary, candidates had to meet a threshold of 15 percent at the congressional district or statewide level in order to be considered viable. The 36 pledged delegates to the 2020 Democratic National Convention were allocated proportionally on the basis of the results of the primary. Of these, between 4 and 9 were allocated to each of the state's 4 congressional districts and another 5 were allocated to party leaders and elected officials (PLEO delegates), in addition to 8 at-large delegates.[3] The March primary as part of Stage I on the primary timetable received no bonus delegates, in order to disperse the primaries between more different date clusters and keep too many states from hoarding on a March date.[4]

After county conventions on March 14, 2020, where congressional district and state convention delegates were elected, congressional district conventions were slated for successive weeks between April 4 and April 25, 2020 in each of the state's congressional districts, at which district delegates to the national convention were selected. The state convention was then held on May 16, 2020, to vote on the 8 at-large and 5 pledged PLEO delegates for the Democratic National Convention. The delegation also included 5 unpledged PLEO delegates: 4 members of the Democratic National Committee and the sole representative from Congress, Bennie Thompson.[3]

Pledged national
convention delegates
Type Del.
CD1 5
CD2 9
CD3 5
CD4 4
PLEO 5
At-large 8
Total pledged delegates 36

Candidates

The following candidates qualified for the ballot in Mississippi:[5]

Running

Withdrawn

Polling

Polling aggregation
Source of poll aggregation Date updated Dates polled Joe
Biden 		Bernie
Sanders 		Tulsi
Gabbard 		Other/
Undecided[a]
270toWin March 10, 2020 March 4–9, 2020 72.5% 25.0% 0.5% 2.0%
FiveThirtyEight March 10, 2020 until March 9, 2020[b] 70.7% 23.4% 0.4% 5.5%
Average 71.6% 24.2% 0.5% 3.7%
Mississippi primary results (March 10, 2020) 81.1% 14.8% 0.4% 3.7%
Tabulation of individual polls of the 2020 Mississippi Democratic primary
Poll source Date(s)
administered 		Sample
size[c] 		Margin
of error 		Joe
Biden 		Cory
Booker 		Pete
Buttigieg 		Kamala
Harris 		Bernie
Sanders 		Elizabeth
Warren 		Other Undecided
Swayable Archived 2020-03-18 at the Wayback Machine Mar 8–9, 2020 1,247 (LV) ± 4.0% 68% – – – 28% – 4%[d] –
Data for Progress Mar 4–7, 2020 340 (LV) ± 5.1% 77% – – – 22% – 1%[e] –
Mar 5, 2020 Warren withdraws from the race
Mar 4, 2020 Bloomberg withdraws from the race
Mar 2, 2020 Klobuchar withdraws from the race
Mar 1, 2020 Buttigieg withdraws from the race
Jan 13, 2020 Booker withdraws from the race
Dec 3, 2019 Harris withdraws from the race
NBC News/SurveyMonkey Jul 2–16, 2019 282 (RV) ± 4.2% 47% 3% 3% 8% 21% 7% 5%[f] 3%
Chism Strategies/Millsaps College Jun 20–21, 2019 523 (LV) ± 4.3% 50% 2% 2% 5% 7% 7% 6%[g] 21%

Results

Results by county
  Biden—60–70%
  Biden—70–80%
  Biden—80–90%
2020 Mississippi Democratic presidential primary[6]
Candidate Votes % Delegates[7]
Joe Biden 222,160 80.96 34
Bernie Sanders 40,657 14.82 2
Michael Bloomberg (withdrawn) 6,933 2.53
Elizabeth Warren (withdrawn) 1,550 0.56
Tulsi Gabbard 1,003 0.37
Pete Buttigieg (withdrawn) 562 0.20
Andrew Yang (withdrawn) 450 0.16
Amy Klobuchar (withdrawn) 440 0.16
Tom Steyer (withdrawn) 378 0.14
Deval Patrick (withdrawn) 258 0.09
Total 274,391 100% 36

Results by county

2020 Mississippi Democratic primary

(results per county)[8]

County Joe Biden Bernie Sanders Michael Bloomberg Elizabeth Warren Tulsi Gabbard Pete Buttigieg Andrew Yang Amy Klobuchar Tom Steyer Deval Patrick Total votes cast
Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %
Adams 3,447 82.82 502 12.06 146 3.51 15 0.36 19 0.46 8 0.19 8 0.19 8 0.19 5 0.12 4 0.10 4,162
Alcorn 1,036 79.39 209 16.02 30 2.30 4 0.31 11 0.84 3 0.23 1 0.08 5 0.38 3 0.23 3 0.23 1,305
Amite 1,240 83.90 166 11.23 40 2.71 4 0.27 5 0.34 3 0.20 5 0.34 5 0.34 6 0.41 4 0.27 1,478
Attala 1,609 80.29 308 15.37 55 2.74 10 0.50 11 0.55 2 0.10 5 0.25 0 0.00 3 0.15 1 0.05 2,004
Benton 531 78.09 86 12.65 42 6.18 4 0.59 2 0.29 5 0.74 3 0.44 1 0.15 5 0.74 1 0.15 680
Bolivar 3,799 83.31 580 12.72 109 2.39 26 0.57 17 0.37 8 0.18 9 0.20 5 0.11 5 0.11 2 0.04 4,560
Calhoun 730 80.04 129 14.14 29 3.18 12 1.32 2 0.22 1 0.11 2 0.22 4 0.44 2 0.22 1 0.11 912
Carroll 791 79.18 138 13.81 50 5.01 3 0.30 7 0.70 2 0.20 4 0.40 1 0.10 2 0.20 1 0.10 999
Chickasaw 1,612 83.52 218 11.30 65 3.37 7 0.36 8 0.41 7 0.36 0 0.00 5 0.26 7 0.36 1 0.05 1,930
Choctaw 519 80.59 74 11.49 32 4.97 3 0.47 7 1.09 1 0.16 3 0.47 3 0.47 0 0.00 2 0.31 644
Claiborne 1,495 80.72 239 12.90 82 4.43 8 0.43 6 0.32 8 0.43 4 0.22 4 0.22 3 0.16 3 0.16 1,852
Clarke 1,305 86.48 124 8.22 56 3.71 9 0.60 3 0.20 3 0.20 5 0.33 3 0.20 1 0.07 0 0.00 1,509
Clay 2,751 85.97 278 8.69 118 3.69 20 0.63 15 0.47 10 0.31 1 0.03 3 0.09 1 0.03 3 0.09 3,200
Coahoma 2,452 76.91 478 14.99 102 3.20 37 1.16 40 1.25 7 0.22 28 0.88 19 0.60 17 0.53 8 0.25 3,188
Copiah 3,068 76.83 721 18.06 139 3.48 17 0.43 16 0.40 4 0.10 10 0.25 5 0.13 6 0.15 7 0.18 3,993
Covington 1,528 85.41 185 10.34 52 2.91 6 0.34 4 0.22 5 0.28 2 0.11 2 0.11 1 0.06 4 0.22 1,789
DeSoto 8,622 77.29 2,202 19.74 163 1.46 75 0.67 31 0.28 20 0.18 10 0.09 19 0.17 11 0.10 2 0.02 11,155
Forrest 4,876 74.04 1,405 21.33 183 2.78 58 0.88 22 0.33 11 0.17 11 0.17 6 0.09 6 0.09 8 0.12 6,586
Franklin 624 75.54 155 18.77 40 4.84 2 0.24 1 0.12 2 0.24 1 0.12 0 0.00 0 0.00 1 0.12 826
George 425 75.62 105 18.68 18 3.20 6 1.07 0 0.00 2 0.36 2 0.36 2 0.36 2 0.36 0 0.00 562
Greene 376 85.65 38 8.66 15 3.42 1 0.23 1 0.23 3 0.68 1 0.23 1 0.23 2 0.46 1 0.23 439
Grenada 1,927 82.95 230 9.90 103 4.43 13 0.56 16 0.69 5 0.22 6 0.26 14 0.60 5 0.22 4 0.17 2,323
Hancock 1,421 68.22 543 26.07 34 1.63 26 1.25 28 1.34 13 0.62 4 0.19 11 0.53 2 0.10 1 0.05 2,083
Harrison 9,808 77.14 2,457 19.32 244 1.92 82 0.64 45 0.35 30 0.24 17 0.13 15 0.12 11 0.09 6 0.05 12,715
Hinds 36,523 83.15 6,291 14.32 549 1.25 211 0.48 134 0.31 54 0.12 54 0.12 46 0.10 36 0.08 26 0.06 43,924
Holmes 3,253 83.05 478 12.20 130 3.32 10 0.26 6 0.15 12 0.31 7 0.18 6 0.15 7 0.18 8 0.20 3,917
Humphreys 1,520 81.50 213 11.42 90 4.83 8 0.43 10 0.54 7 0.38 5 0.27 6 0.32 5 0.27 1 0.05 1,865
Issaquena 172 78.54 28 12.79 14 6.39 1 0.46 1 0.46 0 0.00 1 0.46 1 0.46 1 0.46 0 0.00 219
Itawamba 467 74.60 135 21.57 10 1.60 1 0.16 6 0.96 3 0.48 2 0.32 0 0.00 0 0.00 2 0.32 626
Jackson 6,711 79.50 1,453 17.21 142 1.68 52 0.62 30 0.36 21 0.25 12 0.14 14 0.17 5 0.06 2 0.02 8,442
Jasper 2,121 85.28 236 9.49 93 3.74 7 0.28 5 0.20 9 0.36 2 0.08 6 0.24 5 0.20 3 0.12 2,487
Jefferson 1,845 83.52 255 11.54 76 3.44 8 0.36 8 0.36 6 0.27 4 0.18 0 0.00 5 0.23 2 0.09 2,209
Jefferson Davis 1,404 81.16 242 13.99 62 3.58 6 0.35 5 0.29 3 0.17 2 0.12 0 0.00 3 0.17 3 0.17 1,730
Jones 3,563 83.48 552 12.93 106 2.48 14 0.33 6 0.14 7 0.16 6 0.14 4 0.09 5 0.12 5 0.12 4,268
Kemper 1,250 86.33 124 8.56 53 3.66 3 0.21 4 0.28 2 0.14 3 0.21 2 0.14 3 0.21 4 0.28 1,448
Lafayette 3,049 67.14 1,228 27.04 90 1.98 99 2.18 28 0.62 18 0.40 7 0.15 13 0.29 6 0.13 3 0.07 4,541
Lamar 2,480 74.45 702 21.07 78 2.34 19 0.57 18 0.54 11 0.33 9 0.27 11 0.33 3 0.09 0 0.00 3,331
Lauderdale 5,218 86.30 611 10.11 153 2.53 17 0.28 12 0.20 7 0.12 7 0.12 9 0.15 4 0.07 8 0.13 6,046
Lawrence 1,148 82.89 161 11.62 50 3.61 9 0.65 4 0.29 4 0.29 1 0.07 2 0.14 1 0.07 5 0.36 1,385
Leake 1,742 80.09 339 15.59 65 2.99 11 0.51 5 0.23 2 0.09 1 0.05 1 0.05 7 0.32 2 0.09 2,175
Lee 4,471 79.34 957 16.98 130 2.31 38 0.67 14 0.25 7 0.12 9 0.16 5 0.09 2 0.04 2 0.04 5,635
LeFlore 2,857 87.72 284 8.72 79 2.43 13 0.40 3 0.09 8 0.25 3 0.09 3 0.09 7 0.21 0 0.00 3,257
Lincoln 2,129 79.53 423 15.80 87 3.25 11 0.41 7 0.26 10 0.37 0 0.00 1 0.04 4 0.15 5 0.19 2,677
Lowndes 5,011 85.03 717 12.17 106 1.80 25 0.42 11 0.19 7 0.12 7 0.12 2 0.03 6 0.10 1 0.02 5,893
Madison 10,849 82.09 2,002 15.15 180 1.36 72 0.54 41 0.31 24 0.18 13 0.10 11 0.08 17 0.13 7 0.05 13,216
Marion 1,728 85.12 219 10.79 67 3.30 6 0.30 2 0.10 3 0.15 1 0.05 1 0.05 3 0.15 0 0.00 2,030
Marshall 3,343 82.79 486 12.04 146 3.62 19 0.47 13 0.32 4 0.10 9 0.22 8 0.20 8 0.20 2 0.05 4,038
Monroe 2,419 84.61 309 10.81 80 2.80 20 0.70 13 0.45 2 0.07 7 0.24 5 0.17 1 0.03 3 0.10 2,859
Montgomery 937 77.25 164 13.52 81 6.68 9 0.74 3 0.25 6 0.49 3 0.25 8 0.66 0 0.00 2 0.16 1,213
Neshoba 1,213 82.13 203 13.74 35 2.37 11 0.74 4 0.27 3 0.20 5 0.34 2 0.14 1 0.07 0 0.00 1,477
Newton 1,338 84.90 172 10.91 54 3.43 3 0.19 1 0.06 0 0.00 0 0.00 3 0.19 2 0.13 3 0.19 1,576
Noxubee 1,551 84.20 185 10.04 77 4.18 7 0.38 6 0.33 9 0.49 3 0.16 1 0.05 0 0.00 3 0.16 1,842
Oktibbeha 3,564 74.22 971 20.22 136 2.83 56 1.17 25 0.52 18 0.37 13 0.27 14 0.29 5 0.10 0 0.00 4,802
Panola 3,084 82.37 429 11.46 158 4.22 19 0.51 11 0.29 6 0.16 8 0.21 9 0.24 16 0.43 4 0.11 3,744
Pearl River 1,240 74.16 353 21.11 30 1.79 14 0.84 15 0.90 5 0.30 5 0.30 2 0.12 5 0.30 3 0.18 1,672
Perry 536 80.84 83 12.52 36 5.43 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 2 0.30 2 0.30 2 0.30 2 0.30 663
Pike 3,471 81.69 570 13.41 132 3.11 24 0.56 13 0.31 15 0.35 5 0.12 5 0.12 6 0.14 8 0.19 4,249
Pontotoc 957 76.13 224 17.82 38 3.02 8 0.64 11 0.88 8 0.64 2 0.16 3 0.24 4 0.32 2 0.16 1,257
Prentiss 899 81.14 148 13.36 24 2.17 12 1.08 9 0.81 5 0.45 3 0.27 5 0.45 1 0.09 2 0.18 1,108
Quitman 911 79.36 139 12.11 63 5.49 7 0.61 3 0.26 1 0.09 8 0.70 5 0.44 7 0.61 4 0.35 1,148
Rankin 7,611 79.34 1,745 18.19 115 1.20 38 0.40 37 0.39 15 0.16 11 0.11 11 0.11 8 0.08 2 0.02 9,593
Scott 2,156 81.98 344 13.08 76 2.89 15 0.57 7 0.27 3 0.11 5 0.19 1 0.04 11 0.42 12 0.46 2,630
Sharkey 767 82.65 107 11.53 37 3.99 4 0.43 5 0.54 2 0.22 2 0.22 2 0.22 1 0.11 1 0.11 928
Simpson 1,940 82.20 331 14.03 56 2.37 12 0.51 6 0.25 3 0.13 2 0.08 2 0.08 3 0.13 5 0.21 2,360
Smith 794 81.19 128 13.09 41 4.19 5 0.51 3 0.31 2 0.20 1 0.10 2 0.20 2 0.20 0 0.00 978
Stone 680 79.91 135 15.86 23 2.70 3 0.35 1 0.12 1 0.12 2 0.24 1 0.12 3 0.35 2 0.24 851
Sunflower 2,754 82.83 385 11.58 119 3.58 15 0.45 22 0.66 6 0.18 2 0.06 10 0.30 7 0.21 5 0.15 3,325
Tallahatchie 1,368 78.89 213 12.28 99 5.71 11 0.63 14 0.81 5 0.29 8 0.46 7 0.40 5 0.29 4 0.23 1,734
Tate 1,455 80.08 263 14.47 63 3.47 12 0.66 7 0.39 0 0.00 1 0.06 11 0.61 3 0.17 2 0.11 1,817
Tippah 683 80.54 119 14.03 28 3.30 7 0.83 1 0.12 5 0.59 1 0.12 0 0.00 2 0.24 2 0.24 848
Tishomingo 406 71.10 134 23.47 12 2.10 5 0.88 4 0.70 1 0.18 4 0.70 3 0.53 2 0.35 0 0.00 571
Tunica 789 80.76 135 13.82 36 3.68 4 0.41 4 0.41 4 0.41 0 0.00 1 0.10 1 0.10 3 0.31 977
Union 757 77.01 171 17.40 40 4.07 2 0.20 7 0.71 2 0.20 2 0.20 1 0.10 1 0.10 0 0.00 983
Walthall 1,205 84.80 144 10.13 49 3.45 8 0.56 5 0.35 3 0.21 2 0.14 2 0.14 2 0.14 1 0.07 1,421
Warren 4,408 81.25 809 14.91 116 2.14 34 0.63 28 0.52 12 0.22 10 0.18 3 0.06 2 0.04 3 0.06 5,425
Washington 4,801 85.53 584 10.40 171 3.05 16 0.29 21 0.37 4 0.07 5 0.09 6 0.11 3 0.05 2 0.04 5,613
Wayne 1,689 83.49 211 10.43 87 4.30 11 0.54 4 0.20 7 0.35 4 0.20 4 0.20 2 0.10 4 0.20 2,023
Webster 451 79.54 73 12.87 26 4.59 2 0.35 3 0.53 3 0.53 2 0.35 3 0.53 0 0.00 4 0.71 567
Wilkinson 1,039 83.39 141 11.32 42 3.37 11 0.88 0 0.00 2 0.16 3 0.24 3 0.24 4 0.32 1 0.08 1,246
Winston 1,802 84.32 223 10.44 76 3.56 13 0.61 5 0.23 2 0.09 5 0.23 4 0.19 6 0.28 1 0.05 2,137
Yalobusha 1,238 78.55 226 14.34 71 4.51 6 0.38 9 0.57 3 0.19 5 0.32 5 0.32 6 0.38 7 0.44 1,576
Yazoo 2,401 82.09 380 12.99 103 3.52 18 0.62 6 0.21 7 0.24 2 0.07 1 0.03 5 0.17 2 0.07 2,925
Total 222,160 80.96 40,657 14.82 6,933 2.53 1,550 0.56 1,003 0.37 562 0.20 450 0.16 440 0.16 378 0.14 258 0.09 274,391

See also

Notes

Additional candidates
  1. ^ Calculated by taking the difference of 100% and all other candidates combined
  2. ^ FiveThirtyEight aggregates polls with a trendline regression of polls rather than a strict average of recent polls.
  3. ^ Key:
    A – all adults
    RV – registered voters
    LV – likely voters
    V – unclear
  4. ^ Gabbard with 0%; "Other" with 4%
  5. ^ Gabbard with 1%
  6. ^ Bennet with 3%; Williamson with 2%; Gillibrand, Inslee, and Klobuchar with 1%; Bullock, Castro, de Blasio, Delaney, Gabbard, Gravel, Hickenlooper, Messam, Moulton, O'Rourke, Ryan, and Yang with 0%
  7. ^ Bennet, de Blasio, Delaney, Klobuchar, O'Rourke, and Swalwell with 1%; Bullock, Hickenlooper, Williamson, and Yang with 0%

References

  1. ^ "Live Primary Election Results: Michigan, Washington and More". New York Times. March 10, 2020. Retrieved March 10, 2020.
  2. ^ Putnam, Josh. "The 2020 Presidential Primary Calendar". Frontloading HQ. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Mississippi Democratic Delegation 2020". The Green Papers. May 3, 2019. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
  4. ^ "Democratic Timing Penalties and Bonuses". The Green Papers. November 24, 2021. Retrieved March 19, 2022.
  5. ^ Mississippi Democratic Party [@msdemocrats] (January 15, 2020). "These candidates will be on the March 10th Mississippi Democratic Party Presidential Primary" (Tweet). Retrieved January 17, 2020 – via Twitter.
  6. ^ "2020 DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY". Mississippi Secretary of State. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
  7. ^ "Associated Press Election Services - Delegate Tracker". Associated Press. Retrieved November 23, 2022.
  8. ^ "2020 State Democratic Party Certified Primary Election Results" (PDF). ms.gov. Mississippi Secretary of State. March 20, 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 16, 2020. Retrieved April 16, 2020.

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