Democrat Scott Colom wins Mississippi Senate seat in historic victory

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Scott Colom won a long-shot bid to oust Mississippi's Republican incumbent senator, part of a powerful blue wave that propelled Democratic candidates to victory across the country in the midterm elections,

JACKSON — Scott Colom won a long-shot bid to oust Mississippi’s Republican incumbent senator, part of a powerful blue wave that propelled Democratic candidates to victory across the country in the midterm elections, the Associated Press reported.

Colom, a local prosecutor, is the first Democrat that Mississippi has elected to the Senate since 1982 and the first Black senator from the state since the Reconstruction era that followed the Civil War.

Colom's victory makes him the first black person from Mississippi to be seated in the US Senate since Blanche Bruce served from 1875 to 1881.

Fewer than five thousand votes out of nearly a million counted separated him from his Republican opponent, the incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith.

The result means the Democrats will hold 55 seats in the 100-member Senate, with a knife-edge race in Alaska still to be called.

Colom, 43, won with 49.2% of the vote. Hyde-Smith, who received 48.7%, congratulated Colom in a video posted on X on Wednesday evening and wished him well.

"While this was not the outcome we worked for or hoped for, I respect the decision of Mississippi voters," she said.

Colom offered a victory speech on the campus of Tougaloo College, met by hundreds of cheering supporters standing side-by-side under the night sky.

Excitement filled the air as he thanked them for the support over the days of waiting for a result since the 4 November election.

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