After John Horhn represented the district for three decades, voters in northwest Jackson and rural parts of Hinds and Madison Counties cast ballots Tuesday for their new state senator.

By 9:20 p.m., with all six Madison County precincts and 18 Hinds County precincts in the district unofficially tallied, Canton municipal judge Kamesha Mumford and attorney Letitia Johnson were in the lead with 39% and 28% of the vote, respectively.

The unofficial results show nearly 9,500 people in the district voted.

If no candidate receives 50% plus one vote after the complete official count, including absentees and affidavit ballots, a runoff election will be held Dec. 2 to determine the new lawmaker for Senate District 26.

Physician Coleman Boyd, the race’s conservative candidate, was in third with n

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