Mississippi Republican Party

Mississippi Republican Party
Mississippi Republican Party
Chairperson	Frank Bordeaux
House leader	Jason White (politician)
Senate leader	Delbert Hosemann
Founded	1956
Headquarters	P.O. Box 60,; Jackson, Mississippi 39205
Ideology	Conservatism
Political position	Right-wing
National affiliation	Republican Party
Colors	Red
Seats in the Politics of Mississippi Elections;

The Mississippi Republican Party is the

1964 Civil Rights Act

and is currently the dominant party in the state.

History

One-third of the delegates to the 1867 convention were black. James D. Lynch opposed the Radical Republicans and resolutions calling for property confiscation.^[2]

In 1956,

John Stennis

(D-MS).

Gubernatorial elections

In 1963,

Paul Johnson, Jr. and garnering 38 percent of the vote. Phillips ran again in 1967 against John Bell Williams but lost again, this time earning 29 percent of the vote. In 1991, for the first time in over a century a Republican would become the Governor of Mississippi, when Kirk Fordice would earn 50.8 percent of the popular vote, defeating Democrat Ray Mabus.^[6] In the 2003 Mississippi Gubernatorial Election, Haley Barbour defeated then incumbent Democrat Ronnie Musgrove with 52.59% of the vote.^[7] On November 5, 2019, Tate Reeves

was elected Governor of Mississippi and assumed office in January 2020.

Policy positions

While Mississippi Republicans take positions on a wide variety of issues, some of the noteworthy ones include:

Abortion - "Protecting and securing the 'life, liberty, and property' of Mississippians begins first with guarding the life of the unborn child. Our policies should honor the sanctity of innocent human life."^[8] In November 2011, Governor Haley Barbour voted for Mississippi Initiative 26.^[9] Initiative #26 would amend the Mississippi Constitution to define the word "person" or "persons", as those terms are used in Article III of the state constitution, to include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the functional equivalent thereof.^[10]
Voting rights - In January 2009, Republican Senator Joey Fillingane put forward Mississippi Initiative 27 which would amend the Mississippi Constitution to require voters to submit a government issued photo identification before being allowed to vote. This initiative passed on November 8, 2011.^[11]
Private property - Republican Party members supported Mississippi Initiative 31 on the topic of eminent domain. Initiative #31 would amend the Mississippi Constitution to prohibit state and local government from taking private property by eminent domain and then conveying it to other persons or private businesses for a period of 10 years after acquisition.^[11]

Current Republican officeholders

The Mississippi Republican Party hold all the eight statewide offices and holds a majority in the Mississippi Senate. Republicans also hold both of the state's U.S. Senate seats and 3 of the state's 4 U.S. House seats.