26 Muslim Candidates Won off-year Elections on November 5th, 2019 for Total of 34 Muslims Elected in 2019
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Jetpac and MPower Change, reported that 26 Muslims were elected nationwide in the November 5th, 2019 off-year elections.
CAIR, Jetpac, and MPower Change’s preliminary statistical breakdown of American Muslim candidates running for office in 2019 shows:
- 81 Muslim candidates in total ran for an elected office in 2019
- 29 women
- 52 men
- Of those, 34 Muslims won elections in the 2019 calendar year
- 16 women
- 18 men
- Of those, 26 Muslim candidates won their election on November 5th,2019.
- 13 of those Muslim candidates won an election for the first time
- 7 women
- 6 men
- 13 of those Muslim candidates were incumbents won reelection
- 5 women
- 8 men
- 13 of those Muslim candidates won an election for the first time
SEE: American Muslim Candidate Master List
On behalf of the American Muslim community, CAIR, Jetpac, and MPower Change congratulate the following Muslim candidates on their hard-fought and trailblazing victories:
Maine
- Pious Ali – Portland City Council (reelection)
- Safiya Khalid – Lewiston City Council
Maryland
- Fazlul Kabir – College Park City Council (reelection)
Massachusetts
- Mehreen Butt – Wakefield Town Council (reelection)
- Afroz Khan – Newburyport City Council (reelection)
- Sumbul Siddiqui – Cambridge City Council (reelection)
Minnesota
- Nadia Mohamed – St. Louis Park City Council
- Abdisalam Adam – Fridley School Board (appointed in 2018 to fill a vacant seat but elected by the public for the first time yesterday)
New Jersey
- Jamillah Beasley – Irvington Municipal Council (reelection)
- Mustafa Al-Mutazzim Brent – East Orange City Council (reelection)
- Denise Sanders – Teaneck Board of Education (reelection)
- Raghib Muhammad – Montgomery Township Board of Education
- Adnan Zakaria – Prospect Park City Council (reelection)
- Esllam Zakaria – Prospect Park Board of Education (reelection)
Ohio
- Omar Tarazi – Hilliard City Council
Pennsylvania
- Omar Sabir – Philadelphia City Commission
Virginia
- Buta Biberaj – Loudoun County Commonwealth’s Attorney
- Ghazala Hashmi – Senate District 10
- Babur Lateef – Prince William County School Board (reelection)
- Harris Mahedavi – Loudon County School Board
- Abrar Omeish – Fairfax County School Board
- Sam Rasoul – House of Delegates District 11 (reelection)
- Ibraheem Samirah – House of Delegates District 86 (reelection)
- Lisa Zargarpur – Prince William County School Board
Washington
- Turan Kayaoglu – Puyallup School Board
- Zahra Roach – Pasco City Council
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He is correct! This new notion that foreigners are to be paid for by nationals and we who speak out against it are dragged into court and ruined for speaking up for our ownoriginal, home culture, is like the occupation of France by the nazis.
This is atrocious! Wake up America!
Do you have the party affiliations for these candidates? Pretty sure all of the ones in Virginia are Democrats.
Gloria,
Thanks for reading this column. All of the candidates are Democrats.
Rich
This country will soon be like France to be ruled by another religion, populated by anti Americans and yet the taxpayers will be shouldering these immigrants who refuse to coexist with the AMERICAN way of living.