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The 2000 United States Senate election in Mississippi was held on November 7, 2000. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Trent Lott won re-election to a third term.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Republican | Trent Lott | 654,941 | 65.88% | -2.92% | |
| Democratic | Troy D. Brown | 314,090 | 31.59% | +0.39% | |
| Independent | Jim Giles | 9,344 | 0.94% | ||
| Libertarian | Lewis Napper | 8,454 | 0.85% | ||
| Reform | Shawn O'Hara | 7,315 | 0.74% | ||
| Republican hold | Swing | ||||
Chester Trent Lott Sr. is an American lawyer, author, and politician who represented Mississippi in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1989 and in the United States Senate from 1989 to 2007. Lott served in numerous leadership positions in both chambers of Congress as one of the first of a wave of Republicans winning seats in Southern states that had been solidly Democratic. Later in his career, he served twice as Senate Majority Leader, and also, alternately, Senate Minority Leader. In 2003, he stepped down from the position after controversy due to his praising of Senator Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist Dixiecrat presidential bid.
Erik Robert Fleming is an American politician who was a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives representing the 72nd District from 1999 to 2008. He has been the Democratic nominee twice for one of the state's two U.S. Senate seats. He faced incumbent Republican Thad Cochran in the November 4, 2008 general election, and was defeated. Erik was the Director of Policy with the Mississippi chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He now resides in the metro Atlanta area and continues to advocate for African American issues as the host of the podcast, A Moment with Erik Fleming.
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