# Colom elected Mississippi's first Black senator since 1874

https://mins.news/en/video/140212

- Reuters, 2026-11-12 06:42 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enluBifIQT4

> Democratic challenger Scott Colom defeated Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi's U.S. Senate election, becoming the state's first Black senator since the Reconstruction era after the Civil War.

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