The Mississippi NAACP filed a lawsuit Tuesday, Dec. 20, challenging the state House and Senate redistricting plans adopted by lawmakers in 2022 for use beginning in 2023 elections.

Mississippi’s population is about 59% white and 38% Black. In the legislative redistricting plan adopted in 2022 and used in the 2023 elections, 15 of the 52 Senate districts and 42 of the 122 House ...

Mississippi held state House and Senate elections in 2023. Redrawing some districts would create the need for special elections to fill seats for the rest of the four-year term.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippians voted in party primaries Tuesday for all four of the state’s U.S. House seats and one U.S. Senate seat. The general election is Nov. 5. Here’s a look ...

Wicker was appointed to the Senate in 2007 by then-Gov. Haley Barbour after fellow Republican Trent Lott stepped down. He is an attorney and served in the Mississippi state Senate before winning a ...