2026 forecast · Mississippi 1st

Trent Kelly is all but certain to win Mississippi's 1st District.

Cliff Johnson vs Trent Kelly. The model has Kelly ahead by 29.0 points, winning 100 percent of 2,000 simulated elections.

Safe RModel R +29.0Updated October 22, 2026
Cliff Johnson
Democrat
34.6%
83,848 projected votes
Trent Kelly
Republican
63.6%
154,167 projected votes
100%Kelly
0%Johnson
Kelly all but certainEach square is one simulated election night, Kelly wins about 100 of 100
RatingSafe R100% chance for Kelly
Model marginR +29.0No polls in the race
80 percent rangeR +21.3 to R +36.72,000 simulations
Projected votes242,459Kelly 63.6%

The district map

Every district in the state, shaded by its rating

Mississippi districts

4 districts
Safe DLikely DLean DToss upLean RLikely RSafe R

Vote share

Each candidate's projected share and the range of 80 percent of simulations

Cliff JohnsonDemocrat · 0% to win
34.6%
Trent KellyRepublican · 100% to win
63.6%

Scale runs from 25 to 75 percent. The dot is the forecast, the band is the 80 percent range and the brighter tick marks 50 percent.

Projected district vote

242,459 votes
CandidateVotesShare
Trent Kelly R154,16763.6%
Cliff Johnson D83,84834.6%
Johnny Baucom L4,4441.8%
Total242,459100%

Each candidate's expected vote in the On Point simulation, at the forecast's projected turnout.

The trend

Each side's chance of winning over the forecast's recent updates

0%25%50%75%100%0% Johnson100% Kelly14 updates agoToday

Polling

Every poll in the average, and how the model reads it

Polls of the race

PollsterSampleAgeMargin
On Point averageWeighted averageNo polls

Each margin is the poll as the pollster published it. The forecast counts every poll after its house effect and the undecided split, which is what the trail above shows; hover a margin for the counted value. Lean R and Lean D mark partisan leaning firms.

Model margin
Kelly +29.0
Chance of winning
Cliff Johnson0%
Trent Kelly100%
Simulated vote
Cliff Johnson34.6%
Trent Kelly63.6%
Johnny Baucom1.8%
How the model gets there
Partisan leanD +37.0
FundamentalsR +29.3
With pollsR +28.9
Early vote turnoutR +0.1
With early voteR +29.0

Read from 0 ballots cast so far in Mississippi, against the party mix the forecast expected of them, with similar states and primary turnout. Early vote tracker

How we got here

From the state's partisan lean to the forecast, one stage at a time

D +44R +44Partisan leanthe state's baselineD +37.0Fundamentalsapproval, economy, candidatesR +29.3With pollsno pollsR +28.9With early voteturnout so farR +29.0
Methodology
Every county is rebuilt by simulating voters going to the polls, 2,000 times, from On Point Polling survey data, past results, and the polling average. How the model works.