The small town of Benoit, Mississippi is located in Sunflower County and has a population of approximately 1,000 people. Politics in the area are relatively quiet with few candidates running for local office. The majority of political representation for Benoit comes from state and federal elected officials. The state representative for the area is Robert Johnson III and the current United States House Representatives are Bennie Thompson and Trent Kelly. Local elections are conducted by the Sunflower County Election Commission and typically focus on issues such as education, economic development, health care, infrastructure, public safety and other county-wide concerns.
The political climate in Zip 38725 (Benoit, MS) is moderately liberal.
Bolivar County, MS is strongly liberal. In Bolivar County, MS 64.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 34.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Bolivar county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 64.8% to 34.0%.
Bolivar county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 38725 (Benoit, MS) is moderately liberal.
Benoit, Mississippi is moderately liberal.
Bolivar County, Mississippi is strongly liberal.
Cleveland Metro Area is strongly liberal.
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.
Benoit, Mississippi: D D D D D D
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 three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in zip 38725 (Benoit)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1 contributions totaling $100 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $100 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 19 contributions totaling $14,800 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $779 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)