Southaven: who represents it, and who is running

U.S. general election (federal and judicial) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (Hyde-Smith seat); U.S. Representative MS-1; nonpartisan judicial races (Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, chancery and circuit seats by district, as on the statewide composite ballot). No Governor, Legislature or City of Southaven office is on this ballot..

Holding office14
the sitting council
On the ballot6
2 sitting members running again

The official candidate list ↗ · What Southaven is like — the /local page

Congressional district (city hall): Mississippi's 1st congressional district (the whole city) — Trent Kelly (Republican)

1

Mayor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Darren Musselwhite Elected Mayor Independent City of Southaven
2

Alderman

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Charlie Hoots Elected Alderman Independent Ward 2 City of Southaven
George Payne Elected Alderman Independent At-Large City of Southaven
Joel Gallagher Elected Alderman Independent Ward 4 City of Southaven
John David Wheeler Elected Alderman Independent Ward 5 City of Southaven
Judy Jenkins Elected Alderman Independent Ward 1 City of Southaven
Raymond Flores Elected Alderman Independent Ward 6 City of Southaven
William Jerome Elected Alderman Independent Ward 3 City of Southaven
3

Governor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Tate Reeves Elected Governor Republican Office of Governor Tate Reeves - official website (as read 2026-10-29 for us-jackson; not re-read)
4

Mississippi State Representative — HD-20

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Rodney Hall Elected Mississippi State Representative Republican Mississippi Legislature
5

Mississippi State Senator — SD-2

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
David Parker Elected Mississippi State Senator Republican Mississippi Legislature
6

U.S. Senator

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Roger F. Wicker Elected U.S. Senator Republican @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json)
Cindy Hyde-Smith Elected U.S. Senator → Running Republican @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json)
Scott Colom U.S. Senator Running Democratic Mississippi Secretary of State
Ty Pinkins U.S. Senator Running Independent Mississippi Secretary of State
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U.S. Representative — MS-1

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Trent Kelly Elected U.S. Representative → Running Republican @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json)
Cliff Johnson U.S. Representative Running Democratic Mississippi Secretary of State
Johnny Baucom U.S. Representative Running Libertarian Mississippi Secretary of State
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Notes on this record

How the lists were read, and what could not be.

  • Candidates from the Mississippi SOS statewide composite sample ballot for November 3, 2026 (PDF dated 9-9-26; sos.ms.gov robots allows), read 2026-10-31. Same list as the us-jackson record (which matched it to the SOS 2026 Candidate Qualifying List). Ballot labels 'Democrat'; partyShort normalised to Democratic. Write-ins skipped. DeSoto County judicial seats not itemised.
  • Districts: City Hall (8710 Northwest Dr) geocodes to CD-1, SD-2, HD-20 (Census geocoder 2026 legislative / 120th Congress layers). Census tab20_cd11920_place20_st28: all of Southaven city in MS-1. A 0.02-degree grid gave 22 city points: all CD-1; Senate Districts 1, 2, 11, 19 and House Districts 7, 20, 24, 25, 40 (at least). Only the City Hall seats are people rows.
  • State legislators from the Mississippi Legislature member XML on billstatus.ls.state.ms.us (no robots.txt — 404): ss_membs.xml, hr_membs.xml, senate/parker.xml, house/hall.xml. The records give only an email user name (no domain), so emails are left null. Governor row reused from the us-jackson reading (2026-10-29).
  • Municipal: Mayor and the seven-member Board of Aldermen from www.southaven.org (CivicPlus; robots.txt ClaudeBot group does not disallow these pages; Crawl-delay 10 honoured). Page: 'The City of Southaven Board of Aldermen consists of seven elected officials. Each alderman represents his/her specific Ward, with one alderman being elected at-large ... Alderman are elected for a four-year term.' The City's Election Information page covers the 2025 municipal elections (primary April 1, 2025; general June 3, 2025); the next municipal election is therefore expected in 2029 (not stated on the page). No City office on the 2026 ballot. No official city emails printed per member; the office phone was not copied.
  • Federal officeholders from the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json. No federal photos linked. standsFor null for everyone. No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. Ballotpedia, Wikipedia and news not used.
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Sources

Prepared 2026-10-31. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.