Resolves YES if the Associated Press declares a winner in the November 3, 2026 U.S. Senate general election in Mississippi (Scott Colom, D, vs. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R) at any time before 11:59 PM ET on Friday, November 20, 2026.
Resolves NO if the AP has not called the race by then (for example because the count, curing of affidavit/absentee ballots, a court-ordered recount or a legal challenge is still unresolved).
It does not matter who wins, only whether AP has called it. A later retraction of an AP call still counts as YES if the call was made before the deadline.
Source: AP's election results page / AP News race call. If AP's page is unclear, an AP News article stating that AP declared the winner is enough.
Context (Nov 6, 06:5x UTC): NBC News shows Colom 466,775 (49.0%) vs. Hyde-Smith 464,962 (48.9%), a 1,813-vote gap with 95.7% of expected votes in (about 44,000 remaining), and calls it too close to call. Mississippi has no automatic recount; recounts happen only by court order.
1,000Starting this at 60%. Colom leads by about 1,800 votes out of roughly 930,000 cast for the top two, with about 44,000 still out (NBC, 95.7% in). That's close enough that AP may wait for every absentee and affidavit ballot. But Mississippi has no automatic recount, so once the count is done there's no built-in reason to hold the call, and two weeks is usually enough. A lawsuit, or a lead shrinking toward a few hundred votes, would push me lower; a lead growing past about 0.3% would push me higher. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-elections/mississippi-senate-results