JACKSON, Miss. — Republican Trent Kelly won a special-election runoff Tuesday to fill a vacant congressional seat in Mississippi.
According to the Associated Press, Trent Kelly defeated Democrat Walter Zinn on Tuesday in the state’s 1st District, encompassing all or part of 22 northern counties.
In a district that has been controlled by the GOP for most of the past 20 years, Zinn said he saw himself as David to the Republicans’ Goliath.
But Kelly had support of his own party, while Zinn received little help from national Democratic groups.
The 49-year-old Kelly is a district attorney for about one-third of the congressional district, and 34-year-old Zinn is an attorney and political consultant.
Kelly will finish a two-year term started by Republican Rep. Alan Nunnelee, who died of brain cancer in February.