At least 97 Muslim Americans won races in the US midterm elections, CAIR says

Summary

At least 97 Muslim Americans won their races in the midterm elections across federal, state and local offices, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). More than a dozen other candidates were still awaiting full ballot counts, which depend on county rules and how mail-in votes are handled, but were ahead of their opponents as of Friday morning. They came from a pool of 168 Muslim-American candidates who passed their party primaries. Seven Muslim Americans are headed to Washington: six to the House, including incumbents Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Andre Carson and Lateefah Simon, and freshmen Adam Hamawy and Darializa Avila Chevalier, plus Abdul El-Sayed, who will be the first Muslim American to serve in the Senate. Aisha Wahab's House race had not been decided by Friday morning. CAIR has also tracked 39 other statewide offices won by Muslim Americans, from attorney general to state legislature and state senate. The article says heightened anti-Muslim rhetoric drew defiance from candidates and voters, according to experts it interviewed, and it links the wins partly to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's landslide win last year.

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1. Middle East Eye

   6 Nov 2026, 21:27 UTCSource ↗

   Middle East Eye reports, citing CAIR, that at least 97 Muslim Americans won their races in the midterm elections at federal, state and local levels, with more than a dozen races still being counted.