This post will be updated as results are available.
Second-term state Rep. Jon Lancaster, a Republican from Houston, trailed behind his Democratic challenger, Justin Crosby, on Tuesday night in a special general election.
Crosby, a political newcomer, received 2,767 votes to Lancaster’s 2,477, according to incomplete results with all precincts reporting. The race, which includes Chickasaw, Monroe and Clay counties, is one of the areas where a federal court ordered legislators to remake into a majority-Black district.
The final vote tallies can change because local election officials can process absentee ballots for up to five days after the election.
A federal three-judge panel ordered Mississippi to conduct special elections for 14 legislative seats this year because the court determined the Legislature diluted Black voting strength when it redrew state House and Senate districts.
See vote totals below.
Of 14 total elections, seven seats were not contested, either because only one candidate filed to run in the race or because the candidate did not have any opposition in the general election.
But seven races related to redistricting were contested in the general election: six in the Senate and one in the House.
No matter the outcome of Tuesday’s races, Republicans will still retain control of both chambers of the 174-member Legislature when lawmakers convene in January for their 2026 session. However, national Democratic organizations hoped to end the GOP’s two-thirds supermajority control of the state Senate on Tuesday.
The federal judicial panel specifically ordered the state to have special elections for House districts in the Chickasaw County area, and Senate districts in the Hattiesburg and DeSoto County areas.
Unrelated to the redistricting lawsuit, voters in parts of the Delta and the Jackson metro area participated in special legislative elections on Tuesday because of incumbents vacating their seats.
Sen. David Jordan, a Democrat from Greenwood whose district includes portions of Leflore, Panola and Tallahatchie counties, retired over the summer, and six candidates are vying to replace him.
Seven candidates are looking to fill Jackson Mayor John Horhn’s old seat in Senate District 26 in parts of Hinds and Madison counties. Voters in Bolivar, Coahoma and Sunflower counties are choosing a new representative for House District 26 after Orlando Paden was elected mayor of Clarksdale.
Voters in Hinds County also will elect a coroner, choosing from a crowded field of six candidates.
Here are the latest available results of the general election, with local officials not yet reporting numbers in some races:
Redistricting elections
Senate District 1 – DeSoto and Tate counties:
Chris Hannah, Democrat: 1,927
Michael McLendon, Republican (incumbent): 4,949
Senate District 2 – DeSoto and Tunica counties:
Charlie Hoots, Republican: 2,099
Theresa Isom, Democrat: 3,539
Senate District 11 – Coahoma, DeSoto, Quitman, Tate and Tunica counties:
Reginald Jackson, Democrat (incumbent):
Kendall Prewett, Republican:
Senate District 19 – DeSoto County
Dianne Black, Democrat: 2,934
Kevin Blackwell, Republican (incumbent): 3,277
Senate District 44 – Forrest, Lamar and Perry counties
Chris Johnson, Republican (incumbent):
Shakita Taylor, Democrat:
Senate District 45 – Forrest and Lamar counties:
Johnny DuPree, Democrat:
Anna Rush, Republican:
House District 22 – Chickasaw, Clay and Monroe counties:
Justin Crosby, Democrat: 2,767
Jon Lancaster, Republican (incumbent): 2,477
Nonpartisan special elections for vacancies
Senate District 26 – Hinds and Madison counties
Coleman Boyd:
Jermaine Cooley:
Letitia Johnson:
Theresa Kennedy:
Kamesha Mumford:
James Pittman:
Jeffrey Stallworth:
Senate District 24 – Leflore, Panola and Tallahatchie counties:
Curressia M. Brown:
Jason Colquett:
Everette Hill:
Loretta McClee:
Justin Pope:
Georgio Proctor:
House District 26– Bolivar, Coahoma and Sunflower counties:
Mary Frances Dear-Moton:
Kimberlyn Seals:
Otha E. Williams:
Three seats that are part of the special elections only had a contested primary election, but not a contested general election. These districts, and the winners of the primaries are:
Senate District 42: Donald Hartness, Republican.
House District 16: Rickey Thompson, Democrat (incumbent).
House District 41: Kabir Karriem, Democrat (incumbent).
Four seats that are part of the special elections were not contested, which means only one candidate filed to run. These incumbent candidates win those races by default. Those districts are:
Senate District 43: Juan Barnett, Democrat.
Senate District 41: Joey Fillingane, Republican.
House District 36: Karl Gibbs, Democrat.
House District 39: Dana McLean, Republican.
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