Democrat Scott Colom, a local prosecutor, has been declared the winner of the Senate seat from Mississippi, more than a week after Election Day. Colom, who is ahead of incumbent Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, with 49.2% of the vote to 48.7%, with 99% of the vote counted, was declared the winner by the Associated Press at 5:58 p.m. ET.
Colom will be Mississippi’s first Black senator since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era.
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