Mississippi Map Shows Counties That Flipped Blue
Summary
Democrat Scott Colom defeated Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi’s 2026 Senate race, leading by 4,669 votes when The Associated Press called the contest. Colom won eight counties Hyde-Smith had carried in 2020, helping end a 44-year Democratic losing streak in Mississippi Senate elections.Key Facts
- The counties that switched from Republican in 2020 to Democratic in 2026 were DeSoto, Forrest, Grenada, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Madison, Winston and Yalobusha.
- No county that voted Democratic in the 2020 Senate race switched to Republican in 2026.
- Colom led Hyde-Smith by 4,669 votes out of 962,237 counted when the AP called the race.
- Colom’s win means Mississippi will send its first popularly elected Black senator to Washington.
- Hyde-Smith won the 2020 Senate race against Mike Espy by 709,511 votes to 578,691.
- Colom won DeSoto County by 3,323 votes after Hyde-Smith carried it in 2020 by 12,056 votes.
- Some county returns were still below 99 percent of expected votes, and individual totals could change before certification.
- Newsweek’s map compared the 2026 Senate contest with the previous election for the same Senate seat, not with the 2024 presidential vote.
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