# Colom extends lead in tight Mississippi Senate race

> Democrat Scott Colom holds a razor-thin advantage over Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith as final ballot deadlines pass in a race that could flip a seat Democrats have not held since 1982.
- Title: Colom extends lead in tight Mississippi Senate race · CNBC
- Summary: Democrat Scott Colom holds a razor-thin advantage over Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith as final ballot deadlines pass in a race that could flip a seat…
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- Source: CNBC — https://cnbc.com/2026/11/10/mississippi-senate-scott-colom-hyde-smith.html
- Author: Dan Mangan
- Published: 2026-11-10T21:55:38+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: scott colom, cindy hyde-smith, mississippi senate election, 2026 election, democratic pickup, senate majority, business, finance
## Colom pulls ahead in Mississippi
Scott Colom, a local district attorney, leads incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith by two thousand six hundred seven votes out of nine hundred fifty-three thousand five hundred forty-seven counted.
## The margin is razor-thin
With an estimated ninety-seven percent of votes counted as of four thirty pm ET, Colom's lead is just zero point twenty-seven percentage points. Independent candidate Ty Pinkins had twenty thousand thirty-four votes.
## Final ballot deadlines hit Tuesday
Tuesday is the deadline for resolving affidavit or provisional ballots and for receipt of mail-in absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day, November third.
## Mississippi and Alaska remain uncalled
Mississippi is one of just two states whose Senate election has not been called. Alaska is the other, with Democrat Mary Peltola leading Republican Dan Sullivan by two thousand five hundred seventeen votes.
## Democrats gain Senate control
Democrats have flipped seven Senate seats held by Republicans, giving them a new majority of at least fifty-four seats in the one hundred-member chamber come January.Mississippi has not elected a Democratic senator since nineteen eighty-two.
## Key takeaway

Scott Colom, a Democratic district attorney, leads incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith by two thousand six hundred seven votes in Mississippi's Senate race, one of two uncalled Senate elections as Democrats gain control of the chamber.