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Sharkey County, MS

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Fields below reflect the November 3, 2026 general election ballot as races are certified.

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U.S. Senate1U.S. House1Local1
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U.S. House, Mississippi District 2
3 candidates
Federal ▾
RE
Ron Eller
REP
Biography
Ron Eller is the Republican candidate for Mississippi's 2nd Congressional District, making a third run for the seat, per WLBT. Eller is a physician assistant with twenty years of active-duty military service and twenty years working in the private healthcare sector, per the campaign site, and has more recently started manufacturing businesses.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Bennie G. Thompson
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Bennie G. Thompson is the Democratic incumbent representing Mississippi's 2nd Congressional District, first elected in a special election on April 20, 1993, per Thompson's official House biography. Before Congress, Thompson served as Bolton alderman, Bolton mayor and Hinds County supervisor, and is the ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, which Thompson previously chaired.
Key voting record
Voted no on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax-and-spending package, which passed the House 218-214 in July 2025. Opposed
Voted no on the Laken Riley Act, expanding federal detention of certain immigrants charged with theft or violent crimes, which passed the House 263-156 in January 2025. Opposed
Voted no on the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2026, which passed the House 231-196 in September 2025. Opposed
Campaign siteFull profile
BF
Bennie Foster
Biography
Bennie Foster is an independent candidate for Mississippi's 2nd Congressional District. Foster is an educator and community organizer, per WLBT, and campaigns under the banner ReIMAGINE Mississippi, per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
About this race
Ron Eller (R), Bennie G. Thompson (D), Bennie Foster (I) are on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Mississippi's 2nd Congressional District, per the Secretary of State's official sample ballot. Party nominees were chosen at the March 10, 2026 primary.
U.S. Senate
3 candidates
Federal ▾
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CH
Cindy Hyde-Smith
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Cindy Hyde-Smith is Mississippi's incumbent U.S. senator and the Republican nominee for re-election in 2026. A former Mississippi agriculture commissioner and state senator, she campaigns as a conservative aligned with Republican leadership on agriculture, rural development, military installations, border policy, federal spending, and Mississippi industry.
Top Priorities
  • Support Mississippi agriculture, rural communities, and industry
  • Advance conservative fiscal, border, and judicial policy
  • Protect military, veterans, and infrastructure priorities in Mississippi
Campaign Finance
$5,027,031 raised · top industries: Itemized individual contributions (over $200), PAC/other committee contributions
Key voting record
Voted yes on the 2025 Republican tax-and-spending package, which passed the Senate 51-50. Supported
Voted against Democratic climate, health-care, tax, and prescription-drug pricing legislation, arguing the package expanded federal spending and taxes. Opposed
Voted against codifying federal protections for same-sex and interracial marriages. Opposed
Campaign siteFull profile
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SC
Scott Colom
DEM
Biography
Scott Colom is a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Mississippi and a district attorney in the state's Golden Triangle region. His campaign emphasizes public safety, prosecutorial experience, health care, teacher and law-enforcement pay, wages, and a contrast with incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith on federal spending priorities and Medicaid-related policy.
Top Priorities
  • Use prosecutorial experience to focus on public safety
  • Protect health care access and rural hospitals
  • Raise wages and support teachers, law enforcement, and working families
Campaign Finance
$1,619,368 raised · top industries: Itemized individual contributions (over $200), Democratic-aligned committee support
Campaign siteFull profile
TP
Ty Pinkins
Biography
Ty Pinkins is an independent candidate for U.S. Senate in Mississippi, an attorney, Army veteran, and former Democratic nominee for Mississippi secretary of state and U.S. Senate. His campaign emphasizes voting access, veterans, working families, criminal justice, and an independent path outside the major-party nominees.
Top Priorities
  • Protect voting access and election accountability
  • Support veterans, working families, and rural communities
  • Offer an independent alternative in the Senate race
Campaign siteFull profile

Countywide races in Sharkey County

ZIP 39159 sits in Sharkey County, per the Census crosswalk. These seats are voted countywide; district seats, city races and school boards need a street address. All Sharkey County races (2).

Chancery Court Judge, District 9-2
2 candidates
County ▾
VR
Vicki Roach Barnes
INCUMBENT
Biography
Vicki Roach Barnes is a sitting Chancery Court judge for the Ninth Chancery District, based in Vicksburg, per the Mississippi Secretary of State's 2026 Judiciary Directory. No campaign website was found as of September 17, 2026.
Full profile
PB
Penny B. Lawson
Biography
Penny B. Lawson has served as Vicksburg Municipal Court judge pro tem since 2017 and as Port Gibson Municipal Court judge since January 2025, per her campaign site. She was admitted to the Mississippi Bar in 2010 after earning her law degree from Mississippi College School of Law, and previously served as president of the Warren County Bar Association, per the Vicksburg Post.
Top Priorities
  • Practices in family law, estates and general litigation and says her platform focuses on court accessibility, per the campaign site
Campaign siteFull profile
About this race
Vicki Roach Barnes and Penny B. Lawson are on the November 3, 2026 ballot for this seat. Subdistrict 9-2 of the 9th Chancery Court District is made up of Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren counties; every voter there votes on this seat. Mississippi judicial races are nonpartisan; if nobody wins a majority, the top two meet in a runoff on December 1, 2026, per the Secretary of State's 2026 elections calendar. Listed from the Secretary of State's official sample ballot.
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