Democratic
Bennie Thompson
Incumbent representative for MS-2. Voting record, ideology and biography →
VotePredictor forecast
Bennie Thompson favored
Safe D · predicted margin D+26.0
99%
chance to win
2024 presidential lean
D+20.02026 national environment
D+6.6District polls
noneForecast spread
±7.8 pointsMargin from the district's presidential lean on its 2026 lines, one fitted intercept and the national environment as a uniform swing; the win probability adds a decaying incumbency premium (Democratic incumbent running). No district poll is blended in.
Republican
Ron Eller
Major-party general-election nominee.
Other listed candidates
- Bennie Foster · Independent
Polls
No district-level 2026 general-election poll is currently in VotePredictor's verified polling feed for MS-2. The forecast above is the model alone: lean, incumbency and the national environment.
Other forecasts
We have not yet ingested a district rating from these independent forecasters for MS-2; links go to their current national House ratings. Missing is shown as missing—not converted into a probability.
Past results
Every election in Mississippi's 2nd district we hold a result for. District numbers are reused across redistricting, so older rows may cover different ground than the seat does today.
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