Special legislative elections are happening in some parts of Mississippi with voters asked to head to the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 4.

A majority of the seats on ballots stem from a federal order that lawmakers redraw House districts in the Chickasaw County area, along with Senate districts in the Hattiesburg and DeSoto County areas, after it was determined that the previously used maps diluted Black voting power. The new maps resulted in elections for 14 seats. Primaries were held in August with the generals soon to be underway.

Add in a House seat left vacant by now-Clarksdale Mayor Orlando Paden, a Senate seat left vacant by now-Jackson Mayor John Horhn, and a Senate seat left vacant by the retiring David Jordan of Greenwood, a total of 17 seats at the capitol are up for grabs. Races for

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