MS Secretary of State Releases Final Election Figures

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – Official voting results in all 82 Mississippi counties are now in, Secretary of State Michael Watson announced Friday.

A total of 21,344 affidavit ballots were processed and about 73% of them were accepted, Watson said.

As of Friday evening, election results show that Sen.-elect Scott Colom received 479,404 votes, or 49.3 percent, to Cindy Hyde-Smith’s 471,817, or 48.6 percent, a margin of 7,587 votes between the two.

Independent Ty Pinkins received 20,439 votes, or 2.1%.

“Congratulations to our entire team for a job well done! » Watson wrote about X.

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