Scott Colom wins Mississippi Senate election over incumbent Republican Hyde-Smith
Scott Colom will be the first Democrat elected to the Senate from the state since 1982, and Mississippi's first Black senator since Reconstruction.
TL;DR
- Democrat Scott Colom won the Mississippi Senate election.
- Colom defeated Republican incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.
- He will be the first Black senator from Mississippi since the Reconstruction Era.
- Hyde-Smith conceded the election.
- Democrats are projected to hold at least 55 seats in the Senate.
- Democrats have also secured enough seats to control the House of Representatives.