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In the 2007 Republican [[primary]] election, Watson, at the age of twenty-nine, unseated the four-term incumbent, Tommy Robertson, 4,994 (60.9 percent) to 3,204 (39.1 percent). Then in the [[general election]], he overwhelmed the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Ray Vecchio, 10,305 (74.7 percent) to 3,490 (25.3 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=

In the 2007 Republican [[primary]] election, Watson, at the age of twenty-nine, unseated the four-term incumbent, Tommy Robertson, 4,994 (60.9 percent) to 3,204 (39.1 percent). Then in the [[general election]], he overwhelmed the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Ray Vecchio, 10,305 (74.7 percent) to 3,490 (25.3 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=

https://ballotpedia.org/Mississippi_State_Senate_elections,_2007|title=Mississippi State Senate elections, 2007|publisher=Ballotpedia.org|accessdate=October 18, 2017}}</ref>In 2016, former Senator Robertson was sentenced to ten years imprisonment for embezzling from a construction loan, an offense outside his former senatorial duties.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/crime/article86204792.html|title=Former State Senator Tommy Robertson gets 10 years for embezzling from construction loan|publisher=''The Sun Herald''|date=June 27, 2016|author=Margaret Baker|accessdate=October 18, 2017}}</ref> 

https://ballotpedia.org/Mississippi_State_Senate_elections,_2007|title=Mississippi State Senate elections, 2007|publisher=Ballotpedia.org|accessdate=October 18, 2017}}</ref> In 2016, former Senator Robertson was sentenced to ten years imprisonment for embezzling from a construction loan, an offense outside his former senatorial duties.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/crime/article86204792.html|title=Former State Senator Tommy Robertson gets 10 years for embezzling from construction loan|publisher=''The Sun Herald''|date=June 27, 2016|author=Margaret Baker|accessdate=October 18, 2017}}</ref> 

Watson faced no opposition for Senate reelection in 2011. In 2015, he won his third term in the Senate with 83 percent of the ballots cast against his lone opponent, Boyd Kendall, nominee of the [[Libertarian Party]]. No Democrat filed for the race that year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Michael_Watson_(Mississippi)|title=Michael Watson (Mississippi) |publisher=Ballotpedia.org|accessdate=October 18, 2017}}</ref> 

Watson faced no opposition for Senate reelection in 2011. In 2015, he won his third term in the Senate with 83 percent of the ballots cast against his lone opponent, Boyd Kendall, nominee of the [[Libertarian Party]]. No Democrat filed for the race that year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Michael_Watson_(Mississippi)|title=Michael Watson (Mississippi) |publisher=Ballotpedia.org|accessdate=October 18, 2017}}</ref>