Blue Tsunami: Democrats Now Hold 55 Of 100 Seats In The U.S. Senate

Vote counting is still underway in yet another race—in Alaska.

Democrat Scott Colom won the U.S. Senate election in Mississippi. His victory was one of the biggest surprises for Democrats in the Nov. 3 midterm elections. Analysts did not consider the race in the state to be competitive and predicted a victory for the incumbent Republican senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, who has served in the upper chamber of Congress since 2018. Her candidacy was personally endorsed by President Donald Trump, who defeated Democrat Kamala Harris by a margin of 22 percentage points in Mississippi during the 2024 election. A few days before the vote, Trump even traveled to the state to campaign for Hyde-Smith, according to The Hill.

There is also a personal angle to this victory. In 2022, then-President Joe Biden nominated Colom for the position of federal district judge, but in 2023, Hyde-Smith blocked his nomination: According to the rules, candidates for district court judges must be endorsed by both of the state’s senators. Kolom later admitted that he probably would not have run for the Senate if he had been confirmed as a judge.

Colom became the first Democrat to win a Senate race in Mississippi since 1982. At that time, John Stennis—who had held the seat since 1947, a span of 42 years—was the one to achieve this. After him, Republicans consistently won the state’s Senate elections.

In addition, Colom became the first Black senator from Mississippi since the Reconstruction era—the period following the Civil War associated with the Southern states’ reintegration into the Union and the abolition of slavery. Before him, the last Black senator from the state was Blanche Bruce, who served from 1875 to 1881.

In the 2026 election, the Democrats won in several traditionally Republican states, including Texas, South Carolina, Kansas, Iowa, and Ohio. The party now holds 55 of the 100 seats in the Senate. Vote counting is still underway in one more race—in Alaska. With 86% of the ballots counted, Democrat Mary Peltola is in the lead, ahead of Republican Dan Sullivan by less than 4,000 votes. Also running in the election is spoiler candidate Daniel J. Sullivan, whose name is almost identical to that of the incumbent senator. He has already secured the support of more than 4,000 voters.

According to a tally by AP as of 6:43 p.m. Minsk time on November 12, Democrats hold 255 seats in the House of Representatives, while Republicans hold 168. About 12 seats remain undecided: according to media reports, the outcome in these districts is still uncertain due to narrow margins, recounts, and the counting of mail-in ballots.

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