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SUN, 15 NOV · 71 ITEMS
CTV News, AP, Newsweek + 9 more · United States
15 outletsDemocrat Scott Colom has won a U.S. Senate seat in Mississippi, defeating Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith. This makes him the first Black senator from the state since the era ended in 1877, a historic upset in a deeply conservative state that has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1982.
The claim is solidly based on official election results, initially reported by the Associated Press and widely corroborated by major news outlets including AP, The Guardian, and Axios. CTV News, as a reputable secondary source, is reporting this outcome from that primary data.
This is genuinely new, breaking news from the election night of November 12, 2026 (publication window November 12–13, 2026).
We covered the tense vote count as Scott Colom and Black Mississippians stood on the cusp of Senate history, with PBS reporting on the prolonged wait before the outcome was confirmed on November 12, 2026.