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- ↑ "MS Senate Districts as Adopted May 3, 2012" (PDF). Mississippi Redistricting Commission. Retrieved November 2, 2015.
- ↑ "Elections Info". Archived from the original on January 30, 2016. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
- ↑ "Multi-County Districts" (PDF). www.sos.state.ms.us.
- ↑ "Mississippi State Senate: J. P. Wilemon, Jr". Mississippi Senate. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
