Breaking: Scott Colom Surges 3,000 Votes Ahead.
Race Call Imminent
Colom’s lead climbs past 3,000 votes
civicAPI projects Scott Colom as the winner. SheLovesThee is watching for a victory announcement as Mississippi’s count continues.
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How the count unfolded
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Election Day: lines, equipment and registration complaints
Mississippi Today documented voter reports of long waits, machine problems and inactive registrations. Democrats sought an extra voting hour in DeSoto County, alleging late openings and ballot shortages. The report did not establish that the request was granted.
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The margin grows. The announcement watch begins.
Scott Colom’s advantage over Cindy Hyde-Smith has passed the 3,000-vote mark in civicAPI’s Mississippi Senate feed. The snapshot retrieved for this report lists 470,176 votes for Colom and 467,115 for Hyde-Smith—a difference of 3,061. Ty Pinkins has 20,134 votes. The provider marks Colom as its projected winner and lists 98.5% reporting.
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Senate Watch coverage · Video 1
Rankin brings a four-vote affidavit edge
The Mississippi Free Press reported Rankin County affidavit totals of 476 for Hyde-Smith, 472 for Colom and 21 for Pinkins. That is a net advantage of just four votes for Hyde-Smith in that ballot category. The same liveblog reported a 2,990-vote statewide Colom lead—an earlier figure than the civicAPI snapshot used here.
In Madison County, the outlet reported 546 affidavit votes for Colom and 423 for Hyde-Smith, a net gain of 123 for Colom. These are ballot-category results, not entire county totals, and should not be added again to statewide figures.
Hinds remains a focus
The Free Press reported that Hinds County had received more than 8,000 affidavit ballots and 64 mail-in absentee ballots, with election meetings scheduled for Wednesday. Received ballots are not automatically accepted votes and do not establish how many remain uncounted in a newer statewide feed.
Senate Watch coverage · Video 2
SheLovesThee perspective: watch the next announcement
The question now is how the candidates respond to the widening margin and the provider’s projection. SheLovesThee expects a victory announcement soon, but a campaign announcement has not been independently confirmed for this report. We are watching for Colom’s statement, Hyde-Smith’s response and additional county updates.
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County results
Full county totals from civicAPI. These differ from the affidavit-only figures discussed in the story.
| County | Colom | Hyde-Smith | Pinkins | Margin / leader | Reporting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adams | 6,164 | 3,434 | 132 | 2,730 / Colom | 93.4% |
| Alcorn | 2,538 | 8,431 | 195 | 5,893 / Hyde-Smith | 99% |
| Amite | 2,053 | 2,978 | 89 | 925 / Hyde-Smith | 93.4% |
| Attala | 2,920 | 3,045 | 96 | 125 / Hyde-Smith | 95.8% |
| Benton | 1,263 | 1,491 | 64 | 228 / Hyde-Smith | 99% |
| Bolivar | 7,117 | 2,916 | 110 | 4,201 / Colom | 99% |
| Calhoun | 1,631 | 2,873 | 83 | 1,242 / Hyde-Smith | 99% |
| Carroll | 1,512 | 2,526 | 52 | 1,014 / Hyde-Smith | 95.9% |
| Chickasaw | 3,381 | 2,871 | 86 | 510 / Colom | 99% |
| Choctaw | 1,033 | 1,964 | 58 | 931 / Hyde-Smith | 99% |
| Claiborne | 2,908 | 385 | 36 | 2,523 / Colom | 99% |
| Clarke | 2,384 | 3,117 | 129 | 733 / Hyde-Smith | 96.6% |
| Clay | 5,736 | 2,808 | 91 | 2,928 / Colom | 99% |
| Coahoma | 4,736 | 1,280 | 50 | 3,456 / Colom | 99% |
| Copiah | 5,512 | 4,183 | 174 | 1,329 / Colom | 99% |
| Covington | 2,344 | 3,234 | 182 | 890 / Hyde-Smith | 87.2% |
| DeSoto | 28,103 | 24,780 | 1,301 | 3,323 / Colom | 96.3% |
| Forrest | 12,064 | 9,749 | 620 | 2,315 / Colom | 94.1% |
| Franklin | 1,249 | 2,018 | 50 | 769 / Hyde-Smith | 99% |
| George | 1,138 | 5,475 | 250 | 4,337 / Hyde-Smith | 82.2% |
| Greene | 806 | 2,606 | 127 | 1,800 / Hyde-Smith | 78% |
| Grenada | 3,988 | 3,641 | 110 | 347 / Colom | 98.8% |
| Hancock | 4,538 | 11,441 | 753 | 6,903 / Hyde-Smith | 99% |
| Harrison | 27,470 | 29,638 | 1,742 | 2,168 / Hyde-Smith | 98.2% |
| Hinds | 61,793 | 14,702 | 970 | 47,091 / Colom | 99% |
| Holmes | 5,542 | 841 | 82 | 4,701 / Colom | 99% |
| Humphreys | 2,680 | 705 | 45 | 1,975 / Colom | 99% |
| Issaquena | 224 | 206 | 23 | 18 / Colom | 81.8% |
| Itawamba | 1,162 | 6,055 | 218 | 4,893 / Hyde-Smith | 94.1% |
| Jackson | 14,639 | 19,830 | 963 | 5,191 / Hyde-Smith | 83.2% |
| Jasper | 3,452 | 2,604 | 107 | 848 / Colom | 99% |
| Jefferson | 2,686 | 366 | 30 | 2,320 / Colom | 99% |
| Jefferson Davis | 3,002 | 1,553 | 83 | 1,449 / Colom | 99% |
| Jones | 7,576 | 12,282 | 677 | 4,706 / Hyde-Smith | 95.1% |
| Kemper | 2,259 | 1,117 | 37 | 1,142 / Colom | 99% |
| Lafayette | 8,525 | 8,325 | 373 | 200 / Colom | 92.6% |
| Lamar | 7,481 | 12,914 | 625 | 5,433 / Hyde-Smith | 95.9% |
| Lauderdale | 10,528 | 10,892 | 454 | 364 / Hyde-Smith | 99% |
| Lawrence | 1,826 | 2,720 | 73 | 894 / Hyde-Smith | 98% |
| Leake | 3,030 | 3,310 | 92 | 280 / Hyde-Smith | 92.3% |
| Lee | 10,052 | 14,447 | 494 | 4,395 / Hyde-Smith | 96.4% |
| Leflore | 6,160 | 1,968 | 93 | 4,192 / Colom | 96.2% |
| Lincoln | 4,264 | 7,985 | 142 | 3,721 / Hyde-Smith | 99% |
| Lowndes | 12,313 | 8,865 | 239 | 3,448 / Colom | 99% |
| Madison | 23,258 | 22,787 | 704 | 471 / Colom | 99% |
| Marion | 3,258 | 5,045 | 239 | 1,787 / Hyde-Smith | 99% |
| Marshall | 6,577 | 4,738 | 219 | 1,839 / Colom | 99% |
| Monroe | 5,484 | 7,183 | 175 | 1,699 / Hyde-Smith | 99% |
| Montgomery | 1,787 | 1,791 | 48 | 4 / Hyde-Smith | 99% |
| Neshoba | 2,825 | 5,099 | 137 | 2,274 / Hyde-Smith | 95.2% |
| Newton | 2,526 | 4,203 | 131 | 1,677 / Hyde-Smith | 94.5% |
| Noxubee | 3,473 | 787 | 27 | 2,686 / Colom | 99% |
| Oktibbeha | 9,524 | 6,003 | 179 | 3,521 / Colom | 95.1% |
| Panola | 6,421 | 4,909 | 238 | 1,512 / Colom | 99% |
| Pearl River | 4,115 | 12,080 | 685 | 7,965 / Hyde-Smith | 93.2% |
| Perry | 1,112 | 2,551 | 155 | 1,439 / Hyde-Smith | 89.9% |
| Pike | 7,492 | 5,209 | 199 | 2,283 / Colom | 99% |
| Pontotoc | 2,574 | 7,391 | 241 | 4,817 / Hyde-Smith | 99% |
| Prentiss | 1,888 | 5,381 | 177 | 3,493 / Hyde-Smith | 99% |
| Quitman | 1,654 | 523 | 28 | 1,131 / Colom | 99% |
| Rankin | 19,152 | 32,269 | 1,191 | 13,117 / Hyde-Smith | 99% |
| Scott | 3,830 | 3,943 | 130 | 113 / Hyde-Smith | 99% |
| Sharkey | 1,004 | 416 | 177 | 588 / Colom | 99% |
| Simpson | 3,307 | 4,905 | 165 | 1,598 / Hyde-Smith | 93.4% |
| Smith | 1,485 | 3,851 | 130 | 2,366 / Hyde-Smith | 96.9% |
| Stone | 1,574 | 3,748 | 186 | 2,174 / Hyde-Smith | 88.4% |
| Sunflower | 5,296 | 1,655 | 79 | 3,641 / Colom | 96.2% |
| Tallahatchie | 2,803 | 1,509 | 65 | 1,294 / Colom | 99% |
| Tate | 3,605 | 5,393 | 217 | 1,788 / Hyde-Smith | 96.4% |
| Tippah | 1,823 | 5,378 | 171 | 3,555 / Hyde-Smith | 99% |
| Tishomingo | 1,033 | 5,079 | 189 | 4,046 / Hyde-Smith | 98.8% |
| Tunica | 1,799 | 546 | 40 | 1,253 / Colom | 99% |
| Union | 2,023 | 6,718 | 198 | 4,695 / Hyde-Smith | 97.7% |
| Walthall | 2,348 | 2,786 | 87 | 438 / Hyde-Smith | 99% |
| Warren | 8,117 | 6,148 | 378 | 1,969 / Colom | 96% |
| Washington | 8,660 | 2,369 | 162 | 6,291 / Colom | 85.5% |
| Wayne | 3,113 | 3,773 | 181 | 660 / Hyde-Smith | 98.4% |
| Webster | 956 | 2,851 | 82 | 1,895 / Hyde-Smith | 99% |
| Wilkinson | 1,937 | 812 | 23 | 1,125 / Colom | 99% |
| Winston | 3,718 | 3,421 | 79 | 297 / Colom | 99% |
| Yalobusha | 2,386 | 2,296 | 128 | 90 / Colom | 97.8% |
| Yazoo | 4,457 | 2,998 | 94 | 1,459 / Colom | 99% |
Try the remaining-vote math
This is an illustration—not a forecast or an estimate of ballots remaining. Choose a hypothetical number of additional votes split between Colom and Hyde-Smith.
Other-candidate votes are excluded from this scenario. Calculations begin with the figures currently displayed above.
To move ahead, Hyde-Smith would need at least 4,031 of these 5,000 votes (80.62%).
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About the results
Live data source
civicAPI · Mississippi U.S. Senate · race 81004. No API key required. This page uses the race endpoint, rather than treating “(endpoint)” as a working URL. Projection labels reflect civicAPI only. Its methodology and upstream sourcing are not established by this payload.
Reporting used for the article
Mississippi Free Press liveblog · Rankin, Madison and Hinds county reporting. CBS News described the race as leaning Democratic in its November 10 evening report. Different publishers may update at different times and make different calls.
Why “reporting” is not a remaining-ballot count
The provider’s percent_reporting field is displayed as received. It must not be used to infer an exact number of votes left. County and statewide updates may arrive on different schedules. This page does not sum county figures to replace the provider’s statewide total.