1972 United States presidential election in Mississippi

The 1972 United States presidential election in Mississippi was held on November 7, 1972. Incumbent President Nixon won the state of Mississippi with 78.20% of the vote. This was the highest percentage Nixon received in any state in the election.

In Mississippi, voters voted for electors individually instead of as a slate, as in the other states. McGovern carried only three counties – Claiborne, Holmes, and Jefferson – all of which have overwhelming majority black populations. Nixon would also be the first presidential candidate since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944 to win Mississippi and the election.

, this is the last election in which the following counties voted for a Republican presidential candidate: Marshall, Quitman, Bolivar, Sharkey, Wilkinson, Humphreys, Coahoma, Noxubee, and Tunica. The proportion of white voters supporting McGovern was utterly negligible and estimated at maximally three percent. Calculated estimates indicate that 100% of white voters supported Nixon while 0% supported McGovern.

Counties that flipped from American Independent to Republican

 * Adams
 * Bolivar
 * Carroll
 * Coahoma
 * Covington
 * Choctaw
 * Clarke
 * Desoto
 * Forrest
 * Franklin
 * Grenada
 * George
 * Greene
 * Hancock
 * Humphreys
 * Harrison
 * Hinds
 * Jackson
 * Jones
 * Lamar
 * Lauderdale
 * Marshall
 * Lawrence
 * Lincoln
 * Lowndes
 * Marion
 * Neshoba
 * Noxubee
 * Newton
 * Oktibbeha
 * Quitman
 * Sharkey
 * Pearl River
 * Perry
 * Stone
 * Tunica
 * Wilkinson
 * Wayne
 * Webster
 * Alcorn
 * Amite
 * Attala
 * Benton
 * Calhoun
 * Chickasaw
 * Clarke
 * Clay
 * Copiah
 * Issaquena
 * Itawamba
 * Jasper
 * Jefferson Davis
 * Kemper
 * Lafayette
 * Leake
 * Lee
 * Leflore
 * Madison
 * Monroe
 * Montgomery
 * Panola
 * Pike
 * Pontotoc
 * Prentiss
 * Rankin
 * Scott
 * Simpson
 * Smith
 * Sunflower
 * Tallahatchie
 * Tate
 * Tippah
 * Tishomingo
 * Union
 * Walthall
 * Washington
 * Yalobusha
 * Winston
 * Warren
 * Yazoo

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

 * Coahoma
 * Madison
 * Marshall
 * Tunica
 * Wilkinson