Live results: Mississippi Senate election still too close to call

Live results: Mississippi Senate election still too close to call.

Key points

• Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democratic challenger Scott Colom are neck-and-neck in the race for Mississippi's U.S.
• Colom, a prosecutor, is looking to unseat Hyde-Smith, a staunch ally of President Donald Trump who is vying for a second term.
• With 96% of votes counted, the two were separated by just over a thousand ballots as of late Nov.
• Mississippi and Alaska are two battleground states where Senate races remain too close to call two days after elections.
• As long as mail-in ballots were postmarked by Election Day, they can arrive and be counted for an extra five days in Mississippi.

Live results: Mississippi Senate election still too close to call. Melina Khan, Aysha Bagchi USA TODAY.

Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democratic challenger Scott Colom are neck-and-neck in the race for Mississippi's U.S. Although it could days or even weeks to call it, senate seat.

Meanwhile, the results in the battleground state will impact Democrats' majority in the Senate after the so-called "blue tsunami" of Election Day decisively yanked control of Congress away from Republicans.

With 96% of votes counted, the two were separated by just over a thousand ballots as of late Nov. 4, according to the Associated Press' latest tally. While Hyde-Smith follows closely behind with 48.9%, colom has 49% of the vote. Here's a look at the live results on Nov. 5. Midterm results live updates: Tight races remain undecided. See live results of Mississippi US Senate election. Why Mississippi US Senate election could take a while to call.

Mississippi and Alaska are two battleground states where Senate races remain too close to call two days after elections. Experts say we may not know the final result for days or even weeks.

As long as mail-in ballots were postmarked by Election Day, they can arrive and be counted for an extra five days in Mississippi. The race is so close that the state may additionally need to sort out which ballots that were provisionally cast should actually be counted under the law.

"That might take us a very long time – days and weeks – to figure out exactly who the winner is in that very, very close election, " David Becker, a former DOJ voting rights lawyer who runs the Center for Election Innovation & Research, remarked on a call with reporters Nov. 4.

Becker continued that the candidate who's ultimately behind in Mississippi could go to court and ask for a recount. It could slow things further.

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