MISSISSIPPI

Your complete directory of Mississippi candidates for Governor, State Cabinet, United States Senator and Congress in the current election cycle ... state political parties ... the official state election office ... and state news sources.

CANDIDATE DIRECTORY LEGEND:
Bold = Active Candidate
Italics = Potential Candidate
* = Incumbent
(Incumbent Party Listed First)

Filing Deadline for Partisan Candidates: January 11, 2008
Primary: March 11, 2008
Runoff: April 1, 2008

This page was last updated on May 13, 2008

STATE CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS:

GOVERNOR:
Haley Barbour (R)* - Term Limited in 2011.

Next State Constitutional Officer Elections are in 2011.

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR:
Phil Bryant (R)* - (Campaign Site)

SECRETARY OF STATE:
Delbert Hosemann Jr. (R)* - (Campaign Site)

ATTORNEY GENERAL:
Jim Hood (D)*

STATE AUDITOR:
Stacey Pickering (R)* - (Campaign Site)

STATE TREASURER:
Tate Reeves (R)* - (Campaign Site)

STATE AGRICULTURE & COMMERCE COMMISSIONER:
Lester Spell Jr. (R)*

STATE INSURANCE COMMISSIONER:
Mike Chaney (R)*

U.S. SENATOR:

Thad Cochran (R)* - (Campaign Site)
Erik Fleming (D) - State Rep., Ex-Abstinence Educator & '06 Nominee

2008 SPECIAL ELECTION:
Roger Wicker (R)* - (Campaign Site)
Ronnie Musgrove (D) - Ex-Governor, Ex-Lt. Governor, Ex-State Sen. & Attorney

District 1:
Travis Childers (D)* - (Campaign Site)
Greg Davis (R) - Southaven Mayor, Ex-State Rep. & Civil Engineer
John Wages Jr. (Green) - Ex-State Party Chair, Lee County Elections Board Member, College Professor & Farmer
Wally Pang (Independent) - Restaurant Owner & '07 State Rep. GOP Nominee

District 2:
Bennie Thompson (D)* - (Campaign Site)
Richard Cook (R) - Teacher

District 3:
[ Chip Pickering (R)* - Retiring in 2008. ]
Gregg Harper (R) - Attorney & Rankin County GOP Chair
Joel Gill (D) - Pickens Town Alderman & Cattle Broker
Jim Giles (Independent) - White Supremacist, Ex-Systems Engineer & Frequent Candidate

District 4:
Gene Taylor (D)*
John McCay III (R) - Methodist Minister, National Guard Officer & Ron Paul Campaign Activist

STATE POLITICAL PARTIES:

America First Party of Mississippi
Constitution Party of Mississippi
Mississippi Democratic Party
Green Party of Mississippi
Libertarian Party of Mississippi
Mississippi Reform Party
Mississippi Republican Party

STATE ELECTION OFFICE:

Secretary of State's Office

STATE NEWS SOURCES:

Biloxi Sun-Herald
Booneville Online
Cotton Mouth Blog
lta Business Journal
Fayette Chronicle
Hernando Mississipi Herald
Holly Springs South Reporter
InTheFight.com (Conservative)
Jackson Clarion-Ledger
Jackson Free Press (Alternative)
Madison County Journal
Majority in Mississippi
Magnolia Report
Mississippi.com
Mississippi Business Journal
Mississippi First Congressional District Blog
Mississippi Third Congressional District Blog
Mississippi Link
MississippiPolitics.com
Natchez Blog
Natchez Democrat
Neshoba Democrat
Picayune Item
Senatobia Democrat
Tupelo Daily Journal
Vicksburg Post
Will Bardwell
Y'all Politics Blog

Mississippi Broadcasting Network (PBS)
WLOX TV-13 (ABC - Biloxi)
WCBI TV-4 (CBS - Columbus)
WABG TV-6 (ABC - Greenwood / Greenville)
WAPT TV-16 (ABC - Jackson)
WJTV TV-12 (CBS - Jackson)
WLBT TV-3 (NBC - Jackson)
WTOK TV-11 (ABC - Meridian)

For those who would like to track Politics1 with a newsreader, we publish a RSS feed: