As of 8 a.m. Tuesday, August 6 morning, 46,545 Mississippians have requested absentee ballots for the upcoming August 6 Primary Election, and 41,097 absentee ballots had been received back to the Circuit Clerks’ Offices across the state.
Democratic and Republicans primary runoffs will be held August 27 with general election set for Nov. 5. Due to newspaper deadline, results for the August 6 Primary election results will be in the August 14 edition.
More than 1.8 million Mississippians are registered to vote in the upcoming election. Census data estimates the State’s eligible voting age population to be about 2.2 million.
Comparatively, in the 2015 Primary Election, 41,392 absentee ballots were requested, with 37,318 absentee ballots received. The number of votes cast in the 2015 Republican Primary Election totaled 279,428 and the number of votes cast in the 2015 Democratic Primary Election totaled 299,278, for a grand total of 578,706 votes cast.
For more information about State election laws or Election Day information, visit Y’all Vote, www.yallvote.sos.ms.gov.
