Democrat Scott Colom, a local prosecutor, has been declared the winner of the Senate seat from Mississippi, more than a week after Election Day. 

Colom, who is ahead of incumbent Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, with 49.2% of the vote to 48.7%, with 99% of the vote counted, was declared the winner by the Associated Press at 5:58 p.m. ET. 

Colom will be Mississippi’s first Black senator since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era.