# Colom becomes Mississippi's first Black senator since Reconstruction

https://mins.news/en/item/141717

- CGTN, 2026-11-12 03:20 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2026-11-12/Colom-becomes-Mississippi-s-first-Black-senator-since-Reconstruction-1S0j6bnlKN2/p.html?UTM_Source=cgtn&UTM_Medium=rss&UTM_Campaign=World

> Media projected on Wednesday that Democratic challenger Scott Colom defeated Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi’s US Senate race. The latest tabulation put Colom more than 4,500 votes ahead, a margin of 0.5 percentage points, making him the state’s first Black senator since Reconstruction.

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