1963 Mississippi House of Representatives election

← 1959 November 5, 1963 1967 →
122 seats in theMississippi House of Representatives 62 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party   Leader Walter Sillers Jr. Lewis McAllister Party Democratic Republican Leader's seat Bolivar Lauderdale Seats before 139 1 Seats won 121 1 Seat change 18 Popular vote 93,996[a] 41,811 Percentage 69.21% 30.79%
Results:      Democratic hold     Republican hold Multi-member districts:      Majority Democratic
Speaker before election Walter Sillers Jr. Democratic ElectedSpeaker Walter Sillers Jr. Democratic

The1963 Mississippi House of Representatives election was held on November 5, 1963, in theU.S. State ofMississippi to elect members of theMississippi House of Representatives for its 1964 session. The Democratic primaries were held on August 6, with runoffs held if necessary on August. 27.

This was the first state house election after the 1963 referendum passingreapportionment of the state legislature, the first time the state had done so since 1890. The state house shrunk from 140 members to 122.^[1]

Lewis McAllister, the sole Republican in the legislature, held onto his seat inLauderdale County by a slim margin. McAllister was first elected in a special election earlier that year inFebruary. There were no Republicans on the ballot in Mississippi in the 1959 general election.^[2]

The election was held alongside elections forgovernor and state senate.

Most races were unopposed. All races not listed here were won by the Democratic nominee without Republican or independent opposition.

Sources marked with an asterisk (*) denote those with only unofficial results.

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