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

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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.

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In short

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

How this story developed

27 minutes ago Democrat Scott Colom has defeated Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi after more than a week of counting, in a result called by several news organisations. The narrow win gives Democrats a Senate seat in a state that has not elected a Democratic senator since 1982.
29 minutes ago The updated report adds that Colom’s narrow Mississippi victory is part of a broader Democratic wave in traditionally Republican states.