2015 Mississippi Attorney General election
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The 2015 Mississippi Attorney General election was held on November 3, 2015. Incumbent Democrat Jim Hood, who had been the only statewide elected Democrat in Mississippi since 2008, sought and won reelection to a fourth term. As of 2024, this is the last time Democrats won a statewide election in Mississippi.
Primaries
[edit]Democratic nomination
[edit]Candidate
[edit]Republican primary
[edit]Candidate
[edit]- Mike Hurst, Assistant U.S. Attorney[2]
Results
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Mike Hurst | 217,201 | 100.00% | |
Total votes | 217,201 | 100.00% |
General election
[edit]Results
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Jim Hood (incumbent) | 395,969 | 55.29% | |
Republican | Mike Hurst | 320,192 | 44.71% | |
Total votes | 716,161 | 100.00% | ||
Democratic hold |
County results
[edit]Jim Hood (D) |
Mike Hurst (R) | |||
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County | # | % | # | % |
Adams | 5,046 | 2,336 | ||
Alcorn | 5,273 | 5,136 | ||
Amite | 2,838 | 2,193 | ||
Attala | 3,043 | 2,028 | ||
Benton | 1,721 | 1,022 | ||
Bolivar | 7,177 | 2,122 | ||
Calhoun | 3,122 | 2,015 | ||
Carroll | 2,226 | 1,824 | ||
Chickasaw | 4,530 | 1,221 | ||
Choctaw | 1,424 | 1,366 | ||
Claiborne | 3,093 | 404 | ||
Clarke | 3,150 | 2,729 | ||
Clay | 5,180 | 2,031 | ||
Coahoma | 2,977 | 957 | ||
Copiah | 4,960 | 2,385 | ||
Covington | 3,527 | 2,815 | ||
DeSoto | 6,656 | 14,344 | ||
Forrest | 8,871 | 8,323 | ||
Franklin | 1,846 | 1,208 | ||
George | 2,155 | 3,860 | ||
Greene | 1,701 | 2,119 | ||
Grenada | 4,150 | 2,644 | ||
Hancock | 3,340 | 5,065 | ||
Harrison | 14,802 | 16,235 | ||
Hinds | 43,464 | 14,335 | ||
Holmes | 4,275 | 700 | ||
Humphreys | 2,058 | 574 | ||
Issaquena | 404 | 165 | ||
Itawamba | 3,712 | 3,198 | ||
Jackson | 10,139 | 14,515 | ||
Jasper | 4,073 | 2,255 | ||
Jefferson | 2,487 | 246 | ||
Jefferson Davis | 2,900 | 1,181 | ||
Jones | 7,242 | 10,251 | ||
Kemper | 2,830 | 957 | ||
Lafayette | 5,835 | 5,164 | ||
Lamar | 4,696 | 8,923 | ||
Lauderdale | 8,819 | 8,157 | ||
Lawrence | 2,788 | 2,081 | ||
Leake | 3,344 | 2,666 | ||
Lee | 9,626 | 9,749 | ||
Leflore | 5,127 | 1,821 | ||
Lincoln | 5,029 | 5,324 | ||
Lowndes | 10,241 | 7,258 | ||
Madison | 12,744 | 14,802 | ||
Marion | 3,237 | 4,240 | ||
Marshall | 4,290 | 2,136 | ||
Monroe | 6,328 | 4,329 | ||
Montgomery | 2,296 | 1,553 | ||
Neshoba | 3,153 | 4,140 | ||
Newton | 2,486 | 4,359 | ||
Noxubee | 2,817 | 669 | ||
Oktibbeha | 6,494 | 4,720 | ||
Panola | 7,030 | 4,033 | ||
Pearl River | 2,798 | 6,299 | ||
Perry | 2,086 | 1,910 | ||
Pike | 7,270 | 4,576 | ||
Pontotoc | 4,548 | 3,793 | ||
Prentiss | 3,507 | 2,951 | ||
Quitman | 2,069 | 691 | ||
Rankin | 12,590 | 21,410 | ||
Scott | 4,128 | 2,985 | ||
Sharkey | 1,337 | 347 | ||
Simpson | 4,126 | 3,649 | ||
Smith | 2,855 | 2,872 | ||
Stone | 2,358 | 2,857 | ||
Sunflower | 4,406 | 1,319 | ||
Tallahatchie | 2,575 | 1,026 | ||
Tate | 3,046 | 2,957 | ||
Tippah | 3,225 | 3,196 | ||
Tishomingo | 3,217 | 3,421 | ||
Tunica | 1,709 | 743 | ||
Union | 3,907 | 3,709 | ||
Walthall | 2,813 | 1,930 | ||
Warren | 7,186 | 4,781 | ||
Washington | 7,260 | 2,374 | ||
Wayne | 3,453 | 2,911 | ||
Webster | 1,773 | 1,711 | ||
Wilkinson | 2,616 | 960 | ||
Winston | 3,841 | 2,493 | ||
Yalobusha | 2,306 | 1,506 | ||
Yazoo | 4,333 | 2,388 |
Notes
[edit]- ^ "AG Hood qualifies for re-election". The Clarion-Ledger. February 20, 2015. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
- ^ The Associated Press (February 27, 2015). "GOP federal prosecutor to challenge Mississippi AG Jim Hood". The Clarion-Ledger. Retrieved March 1, 2015.
- ^ "2015 Republican Primary". Mississippi Secretary of State. Archived from the original on February 25, 2021. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
- ^ "2015 General Election". Mississippi Secretary of State. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
- ^ County Level Election Results 2015[permanent dead link]. Mississippi Secretary of State. Retrieved February 24, 2019