Democrat Scott Colom has unseated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi, NBC News, CNN and the Associated Press projected Wednesday. President Trump carried the state by 23 points in 2024, and the win gives Democrats at least 55 Senate seats next year.
CNN PROJECTS THAT SCOTT COLOM WINS THE SENATE RACE IN MISSISSIPPI! pic.twitter.com/7MVfp94PAh
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 11, 2026
Hyde-Smith called Colom late Wednesday afternoon to concede, two sources close to his campaign told CNBC.
Thank you, Mississippi. pic.twitter.com/DtNPffutPu
— Cindy Hyde-Smith (@cindyhydesmith) November 11, 2026
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer posted on X: "Blue Mississippi is here."
Colom is the first Democrat Mississippi has elected to the Senate since 1982, a few weeks before he was born, and he will be the state's first Black senator since Reconstruction. He is the eighth Democrat to flip a Republican-held Senate seat this year, and no Democrat in the next Senate will represent a redder state.
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