# Democrat Scott Colom unseats Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi Senate upset

https://mins.news/en/item/139770

- The Guardian, 2026-11-11 23:10 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/11/scott-colom-mississippi-senate-race

> After more than a week of counting, Democrat Scott Colom narrowly defeated incumbent Republican senator Cindy Hyde-Smith. He becomes Mississippi’s first Democrat elected to the Senate since 1982 and its first Black senator since 1875. The result came amid a national wave of anger at Donald Trump’s administration.

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