Source notes · U.S. House by county, 2022 vs 2026

Mississippi: sources, checks and caveats

File: MS.csv (82 counties). Columns: d = Democratic, r = Republican, o = other named candidates (Libertarian / Independent). Votes are summed over U.S. House districts 1–4.

Sources

• 2022 (certified): The Mississippi SOS publishes 2022 county results only as scanned, handwritten-corrected precinct "Official Recapitulation" PDFs, one per county: https://www.sos.ms.gov/elections/electionresults_aspx/elections_results_2022_county.aspx, for example https://www.sos.ms.gov/elections/electionresults/2022General/Official%20Recaps/Webster%20County.pdf. It does not publish machine-readable county data. We used the OpenElections transcription of those recaps: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openelections/openelections-data-ms/master/2022/20221108__ms__general__precinct.csv (no duplicate county/precinct/candidate rows). We checked it against the SOS certified district totals (https://www.sos.ms.gov/elections/electionresults/2022General/Statewide%20Certified/US%20House%20D%201%20Signed.pdf through D 4 Signed.pdf) and the FEC.
• 2026 (unofficial): As of Nov 9 the Mississippi SOS had not posted any 2026 general-election results; its results page lists only the March 2026 primaries. Mississippi has no state election-night reporting site. We used CNN's results API (AP-sourced): https://politics.api.cnn.io/results/county-races/2026-HG-MS-<1..4>.json (county rows, with countyFipsCode), and for district totals https://politics.api.cnn.io/results/race/2026-HG-MS-<1..4>.json. As of: extractedAt 2026-11-10T02:35:40 (UTC, i.e. Mon Nov 9, 9:35 pm ET). Reporting was 97–98% by district and 93–100% by county. County sums equal the race totals exactly in all 4 districts.
• FIPS: Census national_county2020.txt.

Validation

2022: districts 2, 3 and 4 match the certified totals exactly. District 1 has Trent Kelly at 122,152, one more than the certified 122,151. The county recaps contain handwritten corrections. For example, Webster's Kelly total is printed as 2,749 and hand-corrected to 2,750, and the transcription uses the corrected values. The one-vote gap was not traced to a specific county and is left as is. OpenElections also has 140 "Write-ins" votes (CD2 78, CD3 62). These are excluded, because the SOS certified district reports and the FEC list only named candidates.

Districts without a D or R candidate

• 2022: none. All 4 districts had a D and an R. The only third-party candidate was in CD4 (Alden Patrick Johnson, LIB).
• 2026: none. All 4 districts had a D and an R, plus one LIB or IND candidate in each district.

Caveats

• The 2022 county figures are a third-party transcription of official scanned recaps. They match certified district totals to within 1 vote.
• 2026 comes from a media feed (AP via CNN), not the state. It is incomplete (93–98% reporting) and unofficial. Mississippi accepts mail ballots received by Nov 10 and affidavit-ballot cures through Nov 10, so totals will still change.
• Split counties (Hinds, Jones, Madison, Oktibbeha) sum every district's portion.

These notes record where each number came from and how it was checked. 2026 figures are unofficial. See the methodology and disclaimer.