Most voters in Mississippi will have no choice this year when it comes to who represents them in the state House and Senate. That's because the vast majority of Republicans and Democrats running for the Legislature face no major-party opposition in the Nov. 7 election.
FILE - Mississippi Sen. Dean Kirby, R-Pearl, speaks during debate, March 29, 2022, at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson, Miss. Kirby is unopposed in the Nov. 7, 2023, general election, as he has been in most elections since he first won office in 1991. FILE - Mississippi Sen. Barbara Blackmon, D-Canton, speaks during a debate, March 7, 2023, at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson, Miss.
“I think people are happy with the state and the way things are going,” Kirby, Mississippi’s Senate president pro tem, said in explaining the lack of challengers.decline in competition A democracy “relies on this notion that the people will have some sort of choice,” Rogers added. But “without someone running for office, there isn’t really a choice.”
All those factors are in play this year in Mississippi. Republicans currently hold lopsided legislative majorities. The vast majority of districts are packed with voters favoring one party. The“Candidates don’t want to run races they think they’re going to lose,” said Abhi Rahman, communications director for the national Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee.
Though Democrats are a minority in Mississippi, many of the districts they do win are packed with a large proportion of their voters.
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