The Green Papers: Off Year Election 2001

Copyright www.flags.net/UNST.htm Mississippi
Governor:1(Term Limit: No one can serve more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime)
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 1 and 2)
2000 Representatives:5(1.15% of 435)
2002 Representatives:4(0.92% of 435)
1990 Census: 2,575,475(1.04% of 248,765,170)
2000 Census: 2,852,927(1.01% of 281,998,273)
Registered Voters (Nov 98): 1,729,200
Estimated Voting age population (Jan 98): 2,014,000 
Tuesday, November 6, 2001 Polls Close: 7 PM CST (0100 UTC)
Candidates seeking office
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Governor  Term limit: No one can serve more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime, Current Governors  
 Democrat  Governor Ronnie Musgrove
First elected: 1999
Chair up for election: Tuesday, November 4, 2003. (The current Governor is NOT affected by this state's term limit).
Senate  6-year term, Current Senate  Senate Electoral Classes
Class 1Republican  Senator Trent Lott
First elected: 1988; re-elected: 1994, 2000
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 7, 2006.
Class 2Republican  Senator Thad Cochran
First elected: 1978; re-elected: 1984, 1990, 1996
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
House of Representatives  2 year term, Current House  
Partisan Composition: 3 Democrats, 2 Republicans
CD 1Republican  Congressman Roger F. Wicker
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 2Democrat  Congressman Bennie G. Thompson
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 3Republican  Congressman Charles W. "Chip" Pickering, Jr.
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 4Democrat  Congressman Ronnie Shows
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 5Democrat  Congressman Gene Taylor
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
Congressional District

Mississippi has 82 counties and 5 congressional districts: 71 counties are wholly within a given congressional district; 11 counties are divided among more than one congressional district.

UNDIVIDED COUNTIES (those wholly within one Congressional District):

  • CD # 1: Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw, DeSoto, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Marshall, Monroe, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tate, Tippah, Tishomingo, Union, Webster and Yalobusha
  • CD # 2: Bolivar, Carroll, Claiborne, Coahoma, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Jefferson, Leflore, Quitman, Sharkey, Sunflower, Tunica, Warren, Washington and Yazoo
  • CD # 3: Clarke, Clay, Jasper, Kemper, Lauderdale, Lowndes, Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee, Rankin, Scott, Smith and Winston
  • CD # 4: Adams, Amite, Copiah, Covington, Franklin, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln, Marion, Pike, Simpson, Walthall and Wilkinson
  • CD # 5: Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Lamar, Pearl River, Perry and Stone

DIVIDED COUNTIES (split between more than one Congressional District):

  • Attala: CDs 2 & 3
  • Grenada: CDs 1 & 2
  • Hinds: CDs 2 & 4
  • Jones: CDs 3 & 4
  • Leake: CDs 2 & 3
  • Madison: CDs 2 & 3
  • Montgomery: CDs 1 & 2
  • Oktibbeha: CDs 1 & 3
  • Panola: CDs 1 & 2
  • Tallahatchie: CDs 1 & 2
  • Wayne: CDs 3 & 5