Scott Cullum, the Democratic Party candidate, won the US Senate election in the state of Mississippi, and in a very conservative state that has voted Republican for decades, it was an unexpected victory for the Democrats.
With this victory, Mr. Cullum is the first black person elected to the US Senate from the state of Mississippi in more than 140 years.
The difference between the votes of Mr. Callum and his Republican opponent, Cindy Hyde Smith, the current senator of this state, was only a few thousand votes.
The race was so close that the announcement of the final winner was delayed more than a week after Election Day; Because the local authorities counted all the votes received one by one until the legal deadline.
According to the statistics of the news network Sibias, Scott Cullum won with 49.2% of the votes. Cindy Hyde Smith won 48.7% of the vote and an independent candidate won 1.2% of the vote.
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