Mississippi was won by the Republican nominee, Kansas Senator Bob Dole, who was running against incumbent Democratic President Bill Clinton of Arkansas.

Clinton ran a second time with former Tennessee Senator Al Gore as Vice President, and Dole ran with former New York Congressman Jack Kemp.

During this election, the vast majority of counties in Mississippi voted in majority for the Republican candidate, with the notable exceptions of Jackson’s highly populated Hinds County and a Democratic stronghold of counties bordering the Mississippi River, which have tended to vote Democratic.

In his second bid for the presidency, Ross Perot led the newly reformed Reform Party to gain over 5% of the votes in Mississippi, and to pull in support nationally as the most popular third-party candidate to run for United States Presidency in recent times.

[2] This is the closest a Democrat has come to winning the state since Jimmy Carter's slim defeat in 1980.