Democrat Scott Colom wins Mississippi Senate race in surprise victory for party
Also reported by Al Jazeera, CBS News, PBS NewsHour
Summary
Democrat Scott Colom won Mississippi’s U.S. Senate race, defeating Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith in a result reported more than a week after Election Day. His win ends the state’s Republican Senate winning streak dating to 1982 and gives Democrats a 55-seat Senate majority, with Alaska’s race still undecided.Key Facts
- Colom received 49.2% of the vote, Hyde-Smith received 48.7%, and an independent candidate received 2.1%, according to figures cited from CBS.
- Only a few thousand votes separated Colom and Hyde-Smith.
- Officials took more than a week after Election Day to call the race while counting ballots that arrived by the deadline.
- Colom is the first Black person from Mississippi elected to the U.S. Senate in more than 140 years.
- Mississippi had not elected a Democratic U.S. senator since 1982.
- President Donald Trump won Mississippi by more than 22 percentage points in the 2024 election.
- Democrats won control of both the House and Senate in the 2026 midterm elections, according to the article.
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