Voter Registration Deadline: postmarked or hand delivered by 30 days before Election Day.
2025 Election Information
There are no regular statewide elections in Mississippi this year. However, most of Mississippi’s nearly 300 cities – except those under special charters – will hold municipal elections in 2025. For information on upcoming 2025 special and local elections, please visit https://www.sos.ms.gov/content/documents/elections/2025%20Elections%20Calendar.pdf, or contact your local election authority, which can be found here: https://www.sos.ms.gov/elections-voting/county-election-information.
Municipal Primary Elections: April 1, 2025
Municipal Primary Runoff Elections (if necessary): April 22, 2025
Municipal General Elections: June 3, 2025
Special/General Elections Day: November 4, 2025
Special/General Runoff Elections (if necessary): December 2, 2025
More election information available at: sos.ms.gov/yall-vote
Mail-in PDF voter registration form available at:
sos.ms.gov/sites/default/files/election_and_voting/Voter_Registration.pdf
Students have a decision about where to register to vote.
You have a right to register to vote at the address you consider the place where you live, whether that is your family’s home or the place where you attend school. You should update your registration anytime this home address changes.
You may only be registered and vote in one location.
Mississippi requires an ID to vote. Acceptable photo IDs include:
A full list of acceptable forms of photo ID and a list of accredited colleges and universities can be found at: sos.ms.gov/voter-id/acceptable
Please note that some permitted IDs, including student IDs, are required to be current and valid, which means that it is not expired at the time it is presented as a voter ID. Otherwise, photo IDs may be used at the polls if the ID was issued by the federal government or a state government, is not more than 10 years old, and bears the voter’s name and photograph.
Voters without an acceptable form of photo ID may apply for a Mississippi Voter Identification Card at any Circuit Clerk’s office. More information on the application process and required documents can be found at: sos.ms.gov/voter-id/how-to-get.
By Mail: Mississippi requires and excuse to vote by mail. Valid excuses include (1) any person who is temporarily residing outside of their county of residence (the ballot must be mailed to an address outside the county), (2) any person who has a temporary or permanent physical disability and who, because of such disability, is unable to vote in person without substantial hardship, (3) the parent, spouse or dependent of a person with a temporary or permanent physical disability who is hospitalized outside of his or her county of residence or more than fifty miles from his or her residence, if the parent, spouse or dependent will be with such person on election day, (4) any person who is sixty-five years of age or older, or (5)any qualified elector who is incarcerated in prison or jail in the county where he or she is registered to vote and has not been convicted of a disenfranchising crime.
Early In-Person: Mississippi requires an excuse to vote early in person. The following voters may vote early in person at their circuit clerk’s office:
Qualifying voters may vote early in person at their circuit clerk’s office during its regular business hours and until noon on the Saturday before Election Day, depending on the type of election. Contact your clerk’s office for early voting hours.
For more information about voting early in-person, please visit:
Election Day: Voting sites will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Election Day. If you are in line by the closing time, then you must be allowed to vote.
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