The McComb, MS Metro Area is an active political region. It covers multiple cities and townships in Pike County, Mississippi including McComb itself, Summit, Tylertown and Bogue Chitto. The county is part of the Second Congressional District of Mississippi which is represented in the US House of Representatives by Democrat Bennie Thompson. At the state level, local politics are handled by Senator Joel Carter who represents District 51 and Representative Vince Mangold who serves District 98 in the Mississippi House of Representatives. Local elections for mayor and city council take place at regular intervals across different townships and these are typically lively events with clear positions taken on a range of issues from taxation to development.
The political climate in McComb Metro Area is leaning conservative.
In McComb Metro Area 46.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 52.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, the McComb metro area remained moderately Republican, 52.1% to 46.6%.
The McComb metro area voted Republican in five of the last six Presidential elections (2012 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
McComb Metro Area is leaning conservative.
Mississippi is moderately conservative.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
McComb, Mississippi: r r r d r r
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D for the Democrat and I for the Independent. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last four elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in McComb Metro Area
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 198 contributions totaling $9,201 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $46 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 275 contributions totaling $59,681 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $217 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)