1972 United States presidential election in Mississippi
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The 1972 United States presidential election in Mississippi was held on November 7, 1972. Incumbent President Nixon won the state of Mississippi with 78.20% of the vote.[1] This was the highest percentage Nixon received in any state in the election.[2]
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County Results
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In Mississippi, voters voted for electors individually instead of as a slate, as in the other states. McGovern carried only three counties – Claiborne, Holmes, and Jefferson – all of which have overwhelming majority black populations.[3] Nixon would also be the first presidential candidate since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944 to win Mississippi and the election.
As of the 2020 presidential election[update], this is the last election in which the following counties voted for a Republican presidential candidate: Marshall, Quitman, Bolivar, Sharkey, Wilkinson, Humphreys, Coahoma, Noxubee, and Tunica.[4] The proportion of white voters supporting McGovern was utterly negligible and estimated at maximally three percent.[5] Calculated estimates indicate that 100% of white voters supported Nixon while 0% supported McGovern.[6][7]