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Scott Colom has won the U.S. Senate election in Mississippi, defeating Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith, CNN projects. He becomes the first Black person elected to the U.S. Senate from Mississippi since the Reconstruction era.
Scott Colom Wins Mississippi Senate Seat in Historic Upset
Democrat Scott Colom defeated Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith by about 4,500 to 4,700 votes out of nearly one million, marking the first Democratic Senate win in Mississippi since 1982 and the first Black senator from the state since the 1870s. CNN projected the result on November 11 after counting absentee and affidavit ballots, with Hyde-Smith congratulating her opponent in a video. The narrow margin reflected a Democratic surge in the midterms, flipping suburban strongholds in a state Trump won by over 20 points in 2024, and expands the Democratic Senate majority amid shifting Southern politics.