Polls are now closed after special legislative elections were held across Mississippi on Tuesday.

14 seats in the House and Senate were forced to reshuffle due to a federal order saying the state was diluting Black voting power, with primaries for those being held in August and the general on Tuesday.

Three special nonpartisan elections were also held to fill vacancies from members who left before their terms were up. If no candidate in those surpasses the 50% mark, a runoff will be held Dec. 2.

Of the 17 seats voted on Tuesday, seven were uncontested. The following are already set to take office come January: • Democratic Rep. Rickey Thompson in House District 16 (Chickasaw, Lee, Monroe, and Pontotoc counties) defeated Brady Davis in the primary and is unopposed in the general. • D

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