Mississippi primary elections: live results

Mississippi is holding congressional primaries on Tuesday. Polls shut at 7 p.m. native time and eight p.m. ET.

The races and the stakes:

Mississippi has 4 congressional Home districts which can be up for election on Tuesday. Of the 4 seats, three of them are at the moment held by members of the Republican Get together.

Within the state’s 1st Congressional District, GOP Rep. Trent Kelly is operating for reelection to a fifth time period and is dealing with off in opposition to businessman Mark Strauss within the Republican main. Strauss, who beforehand ran for workplace in Iowa, espouses on his web site that the COVID-19 pandemic was “deliberate” and that vaccines have been created and distributed for the aim of “depoputation.” 

Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District options incumbent Rep. Bennie Thompson operating for reelection within the Democratic main. Thompson, who was first elected to the Home in a 1993 particular election and serves as chairman of the Home committee investigating the January 6 assault, will face off in opposition to native enterprise proprietor Jerry Kerner within the Democratic contest. There’s additionally a crowded GOP main within the district that includes 4 candidates: Michael Carson, Ronald Eller, Brian Flowers, and Stanford Johnson.

The state’s third Congressional District has incumbent GOP Rep. Michael Visitor operating for reelection in opposition to challengers Michael Cassidy and Thomas Griffin within the Republican main. There’s just one particular person operating within the Democratic main, former Homeland Safety staffer Shuwaski Younger.

And lastly, in Mississippi’s 4th Congressional District, incumbent Republican Rep. Steven Palazzo is operating in opposition to six Republican challengers within the GOP main. There are two candidates operating within the Democratic main — former Hattiesburg mayor Johnny DuPree and David Sellers, a pastor.

In accordance with election consultants at Sabato’s Crystal Ball on the College of Virginia Middle for Politics, the races in November will doubtless not be aggressive. The group charges Mississippi’s 1st, third, and 4th Congressional Districts as “Secure R” and the state’s 2nd Congressional District as “Secure D.”