Mississippi 2020 Election Results

Mississippi held no regularly scheduled state elections in 2020, but voters decided 3 statewide ballot measures.

Highlights

• Mississippi voters backed every statewide measure by wide margins, adopting a new flag, rewriting how governors are elected, and approving medical marijuana, though a court later voided the marijuana vote.
• Ballot Measure 3 approved the "New Magnolia" design as the state flag, replacing the Confederate-themed 1894 flag the Legislature retired that summer; the new design carries "In God We Trust." Ballot Measure 2 replaced with runoffs a requirement that a candidate for governor or another statewide office also carry a majority of state House districts. The rule was a relic of the 1890 constitution, written in reaction to Black Mississippians gaining the vote.
• On Ballot Measure 1, voters chose the citizen-initiated medical marijuana program, Initiative 65, over the Legislature's narrower alternative. In May 2021 the state Supreme Court overturned the initiative, ruling that the ballot-initiative process itself no longer worked: it requires one-fifth of the signatures to come from each of five congressional districts, and Mississippi has had four since the 2000 census. The Legislature then wrote a more restrictive program, which Gov. Tate Reeves (R) signed in February 2022.

Ballot measures