Most of the elections come after a federal court ordered more Black-majority districts in the Mississippi Senate. Lawmakers had to create new boundaries for many districts to comply with the law.

See Mississippi winners from the Nov. 4 special legislative election in Forrest, Lamar and Perry counties. Did any districts flip parties?

MISSISSIPPI (WCBI) – Special election races are underway in parts of our viewing area. Polls opened this morning at 7 am. In Noxubee County, voters will be determining the outcome for three different races. Those include the Sheriff’s seat, the Coroner’s position, and the race for District 5 Election Commissioner.

Court-ordered elections reshaped Mississippi’s Senate map, ending a long-standing GOP edge and raising questions about what comes next at the Capitol.

On Election Day in Mississippi, 15.4% of voters came out to decide Senate and House seats. Here are the latest results: Senate District 1 DESOTO & TATE VOTES % OF VOTES Chris Hanna (D) 1,927 28.1% Michael McLendon (R) 4,

Black Democrats won big in the Mississippi Legislature for the state's special election, flipping multiple seats to end the GOP supermajority.

The Supreme Court will decide whether federal law prohibits states from counting mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day.

Mississippi Democratic Party chairman Cheikh Taylor praised the Voting Rights Act for making Tuesday’s results possible while MSGOP chairman Mike Hurst said Republicans were underdogs in the new gerrymandered districts.

The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case to determine whether a Mississippi state election law permitting ballots received after election day to be counted