Who won Mississippi in the 1988 presidential election?

Bush (Republican) carried Mississippi in 1988, winning its 7 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Mississippi have in 1988?

Mississippi cast 7 electoral votes in the 1988 presidential election.

Did Mississippi vote for the national winner in 1988?

Yes. Mississippi backed George H. W. Bush, who won the presidency that year.

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1988

Mississippi: Bush carries 7 EV.

Mississippi cast its 7 electoral votes for Bush (Republican). National winner: George H. W. Bush (Republican) — Mississippi voted with the national winner this cycle.

What happened in Mississippi, 1988

In 1988, Mississippi awarded its 7 electoral votes to Bush of the Republican party. Mississippi ended up on the winning side — George H. W. Bush captured the White House that year.

It marked the 3rd consecutive election in which Mississippi backed the Republican party, a streak reaching back to 1980. Mississippi did not move alone — neighboring Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Alabama broke the same way in 1988. Across the 51 presidential elections Mississippi has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (30 times). The vote fell within the Cold War Realignment — Nixon, Reagan, and the Republican South.

In the national count, George H. W. Bush took 426 of the 538 electoral votes, against Michael Dukakis's 111. George H. W. Bush led the national popular vote with 53.37% of the ballots cast.

The 1988 national map

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