Summary
Democrat Scott Colom narrowly defeated Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi’s 2026 U.S. Senate race. His win makes him the state’s first Black senator since 1874 and ends a 43-year stretch without a Democratic Senate victory in Mississippi.Key Facts
- Colom defeated Hyde-Smith by fewer than 5,000 votes after 99 percent of ballots had been counted.
- Hyde-Smith was an ally of President Donald Trump.
- Colom’s victory gives Democrats a 55-44 Senate majority, while Alaska’s race was still being counted.
- Colom is a 43-year-old lawyer who served as a Mississippi prosecutor from 2016 until this year.
- In 2015, Colom became the first Black district attorney elected in Mississippi’s 16th Judicial District.
- Colom’s notable cases included the 2021 release of Eddie Lee Howard, who had spent 26 years on death row; prosecutors later dropped the murder charge.
- Colom said affordability was a key reason he ran for the Senate.
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