After more than a week of ballot counting, Democrat Scott Colom has won Mississippi’s U.S. Senate race, flipping a Republican-held seat.
Colom defeated Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith, becoming the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from Mississippi since 1982 and the first Black person elected to statewide office in the state since the Reconstruction era, according to CNN.
Colom received 49.2% of the vote, narrowly defeating Hyde-Smith, who received 48.7%, and independent candidate Ty Pinkins, who received 2.1%.