Polls are now closed after special election runoffs were held in two Mississippi districts on Tuesday. After most of 17 legislative seats on ballots this year were decided on Nov. 4, seats in Senate Districts 24 and 26 remained without outright winners.
In District 24 – which includes parts of Leflore, Panola, and Tallahatchie counties – Curressia Brown and Justin Pope are vying for the seat left open by the retiring David Jordan. In District 26 – which includes parts of Hinds and Madison counties – Letitia Johnson and Kamesha Mumford are squaring off to become the successor to now-Jackson Mayor John Horhn.
Live updates throughout the night from each district will be provided below.
Senate District 24 (Leflore, Panola, and Tallahatchie counties)
7 p.m.: No updates yet.
Senate District 26 (Hinds and Madison counties)
7 p.m.: No updates yet.
7:55 p.m.: With less than 1% of precincts reporting, Johnson has taken an early lead over Mumford, garnering 59.1% of the vote to her opponent’s 40.9%.
Previous winners
Beginning with primaries in August, races for 14 seats in the House and Senate were held after being forced to reshuffle due to a federal court order saying the state was diluting Black voting power. Three special nonpartisan elections were added to the fold in November to fill vacancies from members who left before their terms were up. Of those three, Senate Districts 24 and 26 resulted in runoffs.
Here are the people who have already won their races:
- House District 16: Rickey Thompson* (D)
- House District 22: Justin Crosby (D)
- House District 26: Otha Williams III (nonpartisan until swearing-in)
- House District 36: Karl Gibbs* (D)
- House District 39: Dana McLean* (R)
- House District 41: Kabir Karriem* (D)
- Senate District 1: Michael McLendon* (R)
- Senate District 2: Theresa Isom (D)
- Senate District 11: Reginald Jackson* (D)
- Senate District 19: Kevin Blackwell* (R)
- Senate District 34: Juan Barnett* (D)
- Senate District 41: Joey Fillingane* (R)
- Senate District 42: Don Hartness (R)
- Senate District 44: Chris Johnson* (R)
- Senate District 45: Johnny Dupree (D)
(*) – denotes incumbent
