Scott Colom projected to win Mississippi Senate seat
The gist
District attorney Scott Colom leads Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith by over 4,400 votes with 99% counted, per CBS News projections.
A Colom win would make him Mississippi's first Black senator since Reconstruction.
How it unfolded
- Sep 2025Scott Colom announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate.
- Nov 3, 2026Election Day in the Mississippi Senate race; at one point the morning after the election a mere few dozen votes separated the candidates.
- Nov 5, 2026Colom led by 1,724 votes out of 930,728 counted, per the Associated Press; independent Ty Pinkins had 19,978 votes, or 2.1%.
Key terms
- Reconstruction
- The period after the American Civil War when the former Confederate states were reintegrated and slavery's aftermath addressed.
- absentee mail ballots
- A vote cast by mail by someone unable to attend their assigned polling station.
- affidavit
- A sworn written statement made under oath, used as evidence in court proceedings.
Source: Wikipedia