https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/11/03/us/elections/results-mississippi-us-senate.html

1,138 votes ahead as of 18 minutes ago.

EDIT: Looking at that map, the western areas, which IIRC from looking at past demographic maps are the more-black parts of Mississippi, are the areas that went for him.

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Yeah:

https://mcimaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Mississippi-LD-by-Race.png

One point that Nate Silver was talking about in his post-election analysis—not speaking about Mississippi in particular— was that there was strong turnout from black voters in 2026, like 80% of that typical in a presidential-year election. By midterm election standards, that’s good. So that might have been enough to get him over the top.

Does kind of highlight how it’s important to go out and vote…

EDIT2: Ah, yeah. Someone else in this thread linked to a transcript off NPR, and they were saying the same thing about black voter turnout elsewhere in the text, there specific to the Scott Colom result:

https://www.npr.org/2026/11/04/nx-s1-6028618/votes-are-still-being-counted-in-mississippi-u-s-senate-race

What about the demographics of Mississippi made this possible?

FOWLER: Well, Mississippi is a state that voted for President Trump by 24 points, but at the same time, it has the highest share of Black voters in the country, closer to 40%. And you had, like you see in other places in the South, a surge in Black voter turnout. You had maybe a little bit less Republican turnout of people staying home that would normally support the Republican candidate, and you just had this shift and this swing where we are now talking about dozens of votes separating Mississippi electing the first Black senator since Reconstruction.