Mississippi’s six electoral votes will go to Donald Trump for a third straight presidential election cycle.
On Tuesday, the Mississippi Republican Party announced that the state’s presidential electors gathered at the capitol in Jackson to officially cast each of the state’s electoral votes for President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance.
Trump won the election on November 7, ousting Democratic hopeful and current Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. The former president, who lost his seat in the Oval Office to Joe Biden in 2020, came away with 312 electoral votes to Harris’ 226, earning him another four-year stint in the White House.
He also earned a majority of the popular vote, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to accomplish that feat since George W. Bush in 2004. When Trump won the presidency in 2016, he lost the popular vote to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, but surpassed the 270 electoral vote threshold necessary to hold the nation’s highest office.
On Election Day this year, Trump was declared the winner of Mississippi as soon as the polls closed. The New York business mogul turned Floridian earned just under 61% of the total vote in the Magnolia State.
“Mississippi is proud to cast its six electoral votes for Donald J. Trump and JD Vance,” Gov. Tate Reeves said. “After four disastrous years of the Biden-Harris Administration, Mississippians are fired up to get America back on the right track. January 20th cannot come soon enough. Mississippi looks forward to implementing President Trump’s America First Agenda.”
The Electoral College is a constitutionally mandated process consisting of the selection of electors, the meeting of electors whereby they vote for president and vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. Each state has the same number of electors as it has Members in its Congressional delegation — one for each member of the House of Representatives plus two U.S. Senators.
Mississippi’s presidential electors, which were recommended by Gov. Reeves and elected by the state’s Republican Party, consist of:
- Former Gov. Phil Bryant
- Northern District Public Service Commissioner Chris Brown
- State Sen. Tyler McCaughn
- State Sen. Ben Suber
- Charlie Stephenson
- Terry Reeves
“This is truly a historic day for our country and a great day for our state. I sincerely thank our Presidential Electors for their service and our fellow Mississippians for electing Donald J. Trump as President and J.D. Vance as our next Vice President of the United States,” Mississippi Republican Party Chairman Mike Hurst said. “Our state and our nation is on the rise, and I could not be more excited for our people.”
