Democrat Scott Colom wins Mississippi Senate seat in a historic upset, defeating Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith by around 4,500 votes. Colom becomes Mississippi's first Black senator since Reconstruction and the first Democrat elected to the US Senate from the state since 1982. The Associated Press called the closest Senate race in the country on Wednesday, more than a week after Election Day, after days of counting absentee and provisional ballots in near-record turnout. The result gives Democrats 55 seats in the 100-seat Senate, the eighth seat they have flipped from Republicans in the 2026 midterms, with the Alaska race still undecided. Colom, a 43-year-old district attorney and seventh-generation Mississippian, celebrated at Tougaloo College in Jackson, paying tribute to Hiram Revels, the first Black US senator. We explain the margin, the history and what the result means for the balance of power in Washington.
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