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In 2022, two special elections were called to fill vacant seats in theMississippi State Legislature.

Click here to read more about the special elections.

House special elections called

• District 119: July 19
• District 37: November 8

How vacancies are filled in Mississippi

If there is a vacancy in theMississippi State Legislature, a special election is required to fill the vacant seat. Thegovernor must call for an election no later than 30 days after the vacancy happened. After the governor sets the election date, the counties conducting the election must be given at least 60 days' notice before the election. All qualifying deadlines are 50 days before the election.^[1]

The governor can choose not to issue a writ of election if the vacancy occurs in the same calendar year as the general election for state officials.^[1]

See sources:Mississippi Code Ann. § 23-15-851

About the legislature

TheMississippi State Legislature is abicameral body composed of theMississippi House of Representatives, with 122 members, and theMississippi State Senate, with 52 members.

The boxes below show the partisan composition of both chambers directly before and after the most recent general elections prior to 2020. For the most up-to-date numbers on partisan composition in this legislature, seehere (Senate) andhere (House).

Special elections

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July 19, 2022

Mississippi House of Representatives District 119

See also:Mississippi state legislative special elections, 2022 A special election forDistrict 119 of theMississippi House of Representatives was called for July 19, 2022. A general runoff was scheduled for August 9, 2022, but it was canceled. The candidate filing deadline was May 30, 2022.[2] The seat became vacant on May 8, 2022, when incumbentSonya Williams-Barnes (D) resigned to take a job with the Southern Poverty Law Center.[3] General election Special general election for Mississippi House of Representatives District 119 Jeffrey Hulum III defeatedGary Fredericks in the special general election for Mississippi House of Representatives District 119 on July 19, 2022. Candidate % Votes ✔ Jeffrey Hulum III (Nonpartisan)   67.5   899 Submit photo Gary Fredericks (Nonpartisan)   32.5   432 There were noincumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source Total votes: 1,331 = candidate completed theBallotpedia Candidate Connection survey. If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you,complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data?Contact our sales team.

November 8, 2022

Mississippi House of Representatives District 37

See also:Mississippi state legislative special elections, 2022 A special election forDistrict 37 of theMississippi House of Representatives was called for November 8, 2022. The candidate filing deadline was September 19, 2022.[4] The seat became vacant on June 17, 2022, when incumbentLynn Wright (R) passed away.[5] General election Special general election for Mississippi House of Representatives District 37 Andy Boyd defeatedDavid Chism in the special general election for Mississippi House of Representatives District 37 on November 8, 2022. Candidate % Votes ✔ Andy Boyd (Nonpartisan)   57.5   4,384 David Chism (Nonpartisan)    42.5   3,245 There were noincumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source Total votes: 7,629 = candidate completed theBallotpedia Candidate Connection survey. If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you,complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data?Contact our sales team.

Historical data

There were 848 state legislative special elections that took place from 2010 to 2021. Mississippi held 45 special elections during the same time period; nearly four per year on average. The largest number of special elections in Mississippi took place in2013 when nine special elections were held.

The table below details how many state legislative special elections were held in a state in a given year.

Special elections throughout the country

See also:State legislative special elections, 2022

In 2022, 54state legislative special elections were scheduled in 24 states. Between 2011 and 2021, an average of 74 special elections took place each year.

Breakdown of 2022 special elections

In 2022, special elections for state legislative positions were held for the following reasons:

• 21 due to appointment, election, or the seeking of election to another position
• 24 due to resignation
• 9 due to the death of the incumbent

Impact of special elections on partisan composition

The partisan breakdown for the special elections was as follows:

• 36Democratic seats
• 18Republican seats

The table below details how many seats changed parties as the result of a special election in 2022. The number on the left reflects how many vacant seats were originally held by each party, while the number on the right shows how many vacant seats each party won in the special elections.

Note: This table reflects information for elections that were held and not the total number of vacant seats.

Flipped seats

In 2022, two seats flipped as a result of state legislative special elections.

Seats flipped from D to R

• Montana State Senate District 39 (November 8)

Seats flipped from R to D

• Michigan House of Representatives District 74 (May 3)

See also

• State legislative special elections, 2022
• State legislative special elections, 2021
• State legislative special elections, 2020
• Mississippi State Legislature

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