# Dem Scott Colom defeats Mississippi Sen. Hyde-Smith after weeklong nailbiter

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/dem-scott-colom-defeats-mississippi-sen-hyde-smith-after-weeklong-nailbiter/
- Published: 2026-11-12T00:16:56+00:00
- Original publisher: New York Post (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://nypost.com/2026/11/11/us-news/mississippi-dem-scott-colom-defeats-hyde-smith-in-senate-race/
- Topics: World

## Key points

- Colom narrowly wins Mississippi’s Senate race.
- Democrats gain an 11-seat Senate majority.
- The result comes amid Democratic wins in red states.

## Summary

The updated report adds that Colom’s narrow Mississippi victory is part of a broader Democratic wave in traditionally Republican states. Democrats also won Senate races in Iowa, Ohio, Kansas, South Carolina and Texas, while Scott Ossoff and Roy Cooper were declared winners in Georgia and North Carolina.

With more than 95 per cent of Mississippi ballots counted, Colom had 49.2 per cent of the vote to incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith’s 48.7 per cent, a gap of fewer than 5,000 votes. His win gives Democrats an 11-seat Senate majority and makes him Mississippi’s first Black senator since Reconstruction; it is also the state’s first Democratic Senate victory since 1982. The count took more than a week, and Hyde-Smith congratulated Colom.

## Coverage

- [New York Post: Dem Scott Colom defeats Mississippi Sen. Hyde-Smith after weeklong nailbiter](https://nypost.com/2026/11/11/us-news/mississippi-dem-scott-colom-defeats-hyde-smith-in-senate-race/)
- [Fox News: Dems projected to score historic upset in deep-red Mississippi, topple Trump ally Hyde-Smith](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-projected-score-historic-upset-deep-red-mississippi-topple-trump-ally-hyde-smith)
- [PBS NewsHour: News Wrap: Democrat Scott Colom defeats Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/news-wrap-democrat-scott-colom-defeats-mississippi-sen-cindy-hyde-smith)

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