Democrat Scott Colom wins Mississippi Senate race in surprise victory for party

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Democrat Scott Colom has won the US Senate race in Mississippi, delivering a shock victory for the party in a deeply conservative state that has elected Republicans for decades. Colom's victory makes him the first black person from Mississippi to be elected to the US Senate in more than 140 years. Only a few thousand votes separated Colom from his Republican opponent, the incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith. The margin was so close that the race could not be called until more than a week after election day, as local officials counted every single ballot that had arrived before the deadline. The result means the Democratic majority in the Senate is now 55 seats, with a knife-edge race in Alaska still to be called.