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2008-11-04 U.S. House Election Results for Mississippi (District 02)

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Election Type:
Runoff Election: No Yes
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Map Data to Display: Vote Margin
Winner
Vote Margin %
Total Votes
District Boundaries



 
County Bennie Thompson*
(D)
Richard Cook
(R)
Other Margin TOTAL
Attala County4,32547.9%4,69852.1%00.0%-373 9,023
Bolivar County10,59970.6%4,42429.4%00.0%6,175 15,023
Carroll County2,29639.0%3,58861.0%00.0%-1,292 5,884
Claiborne County4,66886.5%72813.5%00.0%3,940 5,396
Coahoma County7,58474.7%2,56325.3%00.0%5,021 10,147
Copiah County8,46659.4%5,79140.6%00.0%2,675 14,257
Hinds County (pt.)69,16275.3%22,67724.7%00.0%46,485 91,839
Holmes County7,85783.5%1,54916.5%00.0%6,308 9,406
Humphreys County3,74975.4%1,22424.6%00.0%2,525 4,973
Issaquena County59263.8%33636.2%00.0%256 928
Jefferson County3,93788.8%49711.2%00.0%3,440 4,434
Leake County (pt.)2,83359.3%1,94540.7%00.0%888 4,778
Leflore County8,98770.9%3,69329.1%00.0%5,294 12,680
Madison County (pt.)11,41266.9%5,65433.1%00.0%5,758 17,066
Montgomery County3,03154.2%2,56345.8%00.0%468 5,594
Quitman County2,88771.6%1,14728.4%00.0%1,740 4,034
Sharkey County1,95172.7%73327.3%00.0%1,218 2,684
Sunflower County8,30975.0%2,77225.0%00.0%5,537 11,081
Tallahatchie County4,58867.3%2,22632.7%00.0%2,362 6,814
Tunica County3,23678.2%90221.8%00.0%2,334 4,138
Warren County11,10151.9%10,27348.1%00.0%828 21,374
Washington County13,54770.5%5,66129.5%00.0%7,886 19,208
Yazoo County6,48957.9%4,72042.1%00.0%1,769 11,209
TOTAL 201,60669.1% 90,36430.9% 00.0% 111,242 291,970
Total R vote: 90,364 (30.9%)      Total D vote: 201,606 (69.1%)      Total Other vote: 0 (0.0%)
* incumbent
Campaign finance data for this election**:
Total Disbursements: $1,081,789 $0
Total Receipts: $2,147,398 $0
Cash on Hand: $1,284,126 $0
Contributions by Candidate: $0 $0
Loans by Candidate: $0 $0
Total Individual Contributions: $889,395 $0
Party Contributions: $1,022 $0
Other Committee Contributions: $1,227,248 $0
Transfers from Other Committees: $0 $0
Independent Expenditures Supporting: $0 $0
Independent Expenditures Opposing: $0 $0
Net Independent Expenditures: $0 $0
Net Spending: $1,081,789 $0

**Financial data shown here takes into account all elections for this office during this cycle, including primary, special and runoff elections, if any.
Source: https://www.fec.gov/data/elections/house/MS/02/2008

Campaign finance data for this election**:

Bennie Thompson*
Total Disbursements: $1,081,789
Total Receipts: $2,147,398
Cash on Hand: $1,284,126
Candidate Contributions: $0
Candidate Loans: $0
Individual Contributions: $889,395
Party Contributions: $1,022
Other Committee Contributions: $1,227,248
Other Committee Transfers: $0
Indep. Expenditures Supporting: $0
Indep. Expenditures Opposing: $0
Net Independent Expenditures: $0
Net Spending: $1,081,789



**Financial data shown here takes into account all elections for this office during this cycle, including primary, special and runoff elections, if any.
Source: https://www.fec.gov/data/elections/house/MS/02/2008


Republican Primary
Pos Candidate Votes % $**

No Republican primary



Democrat Primary
Pos Candidate Votes % $**
1   Bennie Thompson* 111,077 86.2% $1,081,789
2   Dorothy Benford 17,824 13.8%
TOTAL VOTES 128,901