# Mississippi elects Democrat Colom as its first Black senator since the Civil War

https://mins.news/en/video/140398

- France 24 English, 2026-11-12 10:26 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez54X3JQPt0

> Democrat Scott Colom defeated Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi’s closely contested Senate race after a prolonged count. His narrow win makes him the state’s first Black US senator since post-Civil War Reconstruction, a seismic shift in a state long controlled mostly by white conservatives despite having the country’s largest share of Black residents.

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