TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI - OCTOBER 30: Democratic Mississippi Senate candidate Scott Colom is joined by his daughters after speaking to voters during a midterm campaign rally on October 30, 2026 in Tupelo, Mississippi. Colom is running against Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. (Photo by Brad Vest/Getty Images)Credit: Photo Brad Vest / Getty Images

After a week of tense vote counting, Democrat challenger Scott Colom is the projected winner of Mississippi’s Senate race.

Following a shockingly tight race in a historically red state, Mississippi voters turned the state’s Senate seat blue for the first time since the 1980s. With 99% of the vote in, CNN and the Associated Press have called the race for Colom in a tight race against Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith.

“At this stage in the vote tally for Mississippi’s U.S. Senate race, a Cindy Hyde-Smith victory is now a mathematical impossibility,” a statement from Colom read prior to CNN calling the race.

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