# Democrat wins Mississippi Senate race in surprise midterms victory

https://mins.news/en/video/139948

- BBC News, 2026-11-12 02:30 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzle_Rcx8ig

> Democrat Scott Colom won Mississippi’s US Senate race, delivering a surprise win in a deeply conservative state that has elected Republicans for decades. He is the first Black person from Mississippi elected to the Senate in more than 140 years. Only a few thousand votes separated him from Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith.

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