Skip to content
Project Curia

Elections · U.S. Senate · Mississippi

Mississippi Senate race

Cindy Hyde-Smith holds this seat and is running to keep it. Three candidates are on the November ballot.

The November ballot

Hyde-Smith
$5.5M
Colom
$2.4M
Pinkins
$98K

Raised so far, filed with the FEC

General-election ballot as recorded August 27, 2026. Not a prediction.

The seat

Cindy Hyde-Smith

Republican · Holds the seat now

Discloses no individual stock trades.

Has not cosponsored a bill that would ban it

From the member's own disclosures and congress.gov. Not cosponsoring is not a vote against a ban.

See their record

How to vote in Mississippi

  • General electionNovember 3, 2026In 10 weeks

Register 30 days before the election.

All dates and rules
Preview of this page's shareable card

Share this

How they won the primary

The primary · 150,641 votes

  • Scott ColomWon72.9%109,817
  • Priscilla Williams-Till18.6%28,075
  • Albert Littell8.5%12,749

Primary results as recorded August 25, 2026, in the canvass's own published order. Via Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), which cites each state's canvass. A primary result is a filed fact about a past contest, not a prediction of November.

The money on this race

Raised by candidates
$8.5M
Outside money
$556K

Outside money, for and against

Supporting Hyde-Smith$134K
Opposing Hyde-Smith$88K
Supporting Colom$334K
Opposing Colom-
Supporting Pinkins-
Opposing Pinkins-

Independent expenditures; direction is each filer's own declared filing.

Where each candidate's money comes from

10%$532KSmall donors$351K15%
48%$2.6MLarge donors$1.6M67%
27%$1.5MPACs$312K13%
1%$63KParty--
--Self-funding$25K1%
14%$780KOther$104K4%

Small donors give under $200; PACs are political action committees. Shares of each candidate's own receipts on file with the FEC. Outside money is not part of these figures.

Who is spending on this race

The 6 groups spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.

1 to 5 of 6 groups

Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.

Not on the November ballot

4 filed

Primary candidates who did not advance, committees still on file, and candidacies that ended. Being here is a filing fact, not a mark against anyone.

How this seat voted last time

R+10 in 2020

  • Cindy Hyde-SmithWon54.1%
  • Mike Espy44.1%

1,311,354 votes for candidates. A past result is a filed fact, not a prediction of November.

Certified returns via MIT Election Data and Science Lab, from the House Clerk's election statistics and state canvasses.

More on the Mississippi ballot4 House races statewideFind your races by ZIP →

Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain; money figures carry their own coverage dates. Dataset built 2026-08-27. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.