#1 is the best, #50 is the worst
Scott Colom beat Cindy Hyde-Smith 49.2% to 48.7%, in a state Trump won by 23 points. Trent Kelly, Michael Guest and Mike Ezell all won, each with 61% or less. And Mississippi's Republican governor says it's 'not a question of if' they redraw the state's only majority-Black district, the seat of its only Black congressman.
On November 11, the House voted 245-175 to force a standalone vote on the Major Richard Star Act, which would stop cutting the retirement pay of about 58,000 combat-wounded veterans. Every no vote came from a Republican. Here are the 153 on this site, and the 85 of them whose names are on the bill.
On November 10, the House voted 211-204 to bury the articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in committee. Here is what he has done, and the 182 Republicans on this site who voted to protect him.
Trump won Mississippi with 60.9% of the vote to 38%, a margin of 22.9 points, with 57.8% of eligible voters turning out. (Full 2024 presidential results, state by state.)
5 of 6 — 83%. In the U.S. House, Mississippi has 3 Republicans and 1 Democrat; in the Senate, 2 Republicans and 0 Democrats. (Source: Current members of Congress from Mississippi, on Wikipedia.)
Mississippi ranks #48 of 50. That is the average of its rank on the 17 measures in the report card above — violent crime, gun deaths, life expectancy, food insecurity, maternal and infant mortality, household income, public education, voter turnout and more. #1 is the best state to live in, #50 the worst.
You can compare Mississippi directly to other states on our Compare States page.
We grade Republican incumbents running in 2026 — U.S. Senators, U.S. Representatives and governors — on their record: how they voted, who funds them, and what it has cost Mississippi. Democrats and independents do not get report cards.