This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Mississippi Election Code.”
Miss. Code Ann. § 23-15-1
Short title
Known as the Mississippi Election Code
The act spans §§ 23–23 (378 sections).
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case 890 So. 2d 843 - Barbour v. Gunn (2004)
Most recently applied in Monique Brooks Montgomery v. Democratic Executive Committee (May 2007)
Laws, 1986, ch. 495, § 1, eff from and after January 1, 1987.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.