[1] Mississippi was won by incumbent President George W. Bush of the Republican Party with a 19.69% margin of victory over Democratic nominee John Kerry.

These organizations published their predictions just prior to election day:[2] Bush won pre-election polling by a double-digit margin.

[6] The last Democratic presidential nominee to win Mississippi was fellow Southerner Jimmy Carter in 1976.

Due to its reliably conservative voting pattern, neither of the two major party candidates campaigned in the state.

[7] Kerry's main support lay in the western counties on the Delta and next to the Mississippi River.