UPSET ALERT: Democrat WINS Kansas Governor Race, Here Are The Full Results

Democratic state Sen. Cindy Holscher will hold onto the Kansas governor’s office for her party after defeating Republican Ty Masterson, according to a race call by the Associated Press.

Masterson, the president of the state Senate, was endorsed by President Trump. Of the 36 elections for governor across the country, Kansas was seen as the most likely to flip from Democratic to Republican control.

The race call came after days of counting the provisional ballots and with local officials doing recounts in the closely contested election.

Current Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly is term-limited after serving for eight years in a state with a heavily Republican legislature and that usually votes for Republicans for other offices and in presidential elections.

Holscher, 57, ran a campaign with notes of populism, promising to fight “sweetheart deals” for billionaires. She tied Masterson to his work in the state Senate when it passed a tax cut under former Republican Gov. Sam Brownback that led to a series of budget crises and was later repealed.

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Democrat Scott Colom has won the US Senate race in Mississippi, delivering a shock victory for the party in a deeply conservative state that has elected Republicans for decades.

Colom’s victory makes him the first black person from Mississippi to be seated in the US Senate since Blanche Bruce served from 1875 to 1881.

Fewer than five thousand votes out of nearly a million counted separated him from his Republican opponent, the incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith.

The result means the Democrats will hold 55 seats in the 100-member Senate, with a knife-edge race in Alaska still to be called.

Before Scott Colom, these two men were the last black US senators in Mississippi

Colom, 43, won with 49.2% of the vote. Hyde-Smith, who received 48.7%, congratulated Colom in a video posted on X on Wednesday evening and wished him well.

“While this was not the outcome we worked for or hoped for, I respect the decision of Mississippi voters,” she said.

The contest was not considered to be in play until the final weeks of the campaign, given President Donald Trump won the state in the 2024 election by more than 22 points.

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