Democrat Scott Colom won the US Senate election in Mississippi, becoming the state's first Black senator since the 19th century
After eight days of counting ballots, Democrat Scott Colom edged out incumbent Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith by 4,585 votes. He will become the first Black senator from Mississippi since Reconstruction and the first Democrat in the Senate from the state since 1982. The victory increased the Democrats' Senate majority to 55 seats out of 100.
Shahnoza Ergasheva