Voters will choose between Kitchens and Branning in the runoff election for the Mississippi Supreme Court seat

Mississippi voters will decide the winner of a seat on the state Supreme Court Court.PGlmcmFtZSBjbGFzcz0iYXAtZW1iZWQiIHRpdGxlPSJMaXZlIGVsZWN0aW9uIHJlc3VsdHMgdmlhIHRoZSBBc3NvY2lhdGVkIFByZXNzIiBzcmM9Imh0dHBzO i8vaW50ZXJhY3RpdmVzLmFwLm9yZy9lbGVjdGlvbi1yZXN1bHRzL2N1c3RvbWVycy9sYXlvdXRzL29yZ2FuaXphdGlvbi1sYXlvdXRzL3B1Ymxpc2hlZC81ODY5OC8y NTcwNy5odG1sIiB3aWR0aD0iMTAwJSIgZnJhbWVib3JkZXI9IjAiIHNjcm9sbGluZz0ibm8iIG1hcmdpbmhlaWdodD0iMCI+PC9pZnJhbWU+PHNjcmlwdCBkZWZlciB zcmM9Imh0dHBzOi8vaW50ZXJhY3RpdmVzLmFwLm9yZy9lbGVjdGlvbi1yZXN1bHRzL2Fzc2V0cy9taWNyb3NpdGUvcmVzaXplQ2xpZW50LmpzIj48L3NjcmlwdD4=Tap here if you want the Can’t see results above. Runoff elections will be held Tuesday between candidates who advanced in the Nov. 5 general election. Voter turnout typically drops between general elections and runoffs, and campaigns say turnout could be particularly challenging two days before Thanksgiving. Supreme Court Justice Jim Kitchens is seeking a third term and is being challenged by state Sen. Jenifer Branning. They are running in District 1, also known as the Central District, which stretches from the Delta region through the Jackson metropolitan area to the Alabama border. Branning received 42% and Kitchens 36% in the first ballot. Three other candidates shared the rest. Mississippi’s judicial candidates are running without party labels, but Democratic areas largely supported Kitchens on Nov. 5 and Republican areas supported Branning. Branning is endorsed by the state Republican Party. She describes herself as a “constitutional conservative” and says she is against “liberal, activist judges” and “the radical left.” Kitchens is the highest-ranking of the court’s two presiding judges and is next in line to serve as chief justice. He is supported by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Action Fund, which describes itself as a “catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond.” In September, Kitchens sided with a man on death row over a murder conviction in which a key witness recanted her testimony. In 2018, Kitchens dissented in two death row cases involving the use of the drug midazolam in state executions.