Democrat Scott Colom won the Mississippi Senate race with 49.2% of the vote, against 48.7% for Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith and 2.1% for an independent candidate, according to figures from CBS.

He is the first black person elected to the Senate from Mississippi in more than 140 years. With the result, the Democratic majority in the Senate now stands at 55 seats, with the knife-edge race in Alaska still to be called. Exit polls indicate that voter backlash against Trump's Republican Party was driven in large part by economic woes, blamed on his administration's tariffs and the war with Iran.