diff --git a/common/changes/office-ui-fabric-react/jspurlin-ComboBoxFixSelectedStylingSingleSelect_2018-05-29-20-33.json b/common/changes/office-ui-fabric-react/jspurlin-ComboBoxFixSelectedStylingSingleSelect_2018-05-29-20-33.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..1195050a331b23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/changes/office-ui-fabric-react/jspurlin-ComboBoxFixSelectedStylingSingleSelect_2018-05-29-20-33.json
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{
+  "changes": [
+    {
+      "packageName": "office-ui-fabric-react",
+      "comment": "ComboBox: Update styling so that the \"selected\" item does not get the \"selected\" look when navigating through the potential options.",
+      "type": "patch"
+    }
+  ],
+  "packageName": "office-ui-fabric-react",
+  "email": "jspurlin@microsoft.com"
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/ComboBox/ComboBox.tsx b/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/ComboBox/ComboBox.tsx
index 2ebef0ae3be2a2..4bdc1aab726b17 100644
--- a/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/ComboBox/ComboBox.tsx
+++ b/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/ComboBox/ComboBox.tsx
@@ -1177,7 +1177,7 @@ export class ComboBox extends BaseComponent<IComboBoxProps, IComboBoxState> {
     }
 
     let idxOfSelectedIndex = -1;
-    if ((index !== undefined) && this.state.selectedIndices) {
+    if (this.props.multiSelect && (index !== undefined) && this.state.selectedIndices) {
       idxOfSelectedIndex = this.state.selectedIndices.indexOf(index);
     }
     return (idxOfSelectedIndex >= 0);