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Muslims Running in 2020 U.S. Elections (List by State)
Arizona
Iman-Utopia Layjou Bah is an Independent candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District.
Raphael Ahmed is a candidate for First Vice Chairman at Arizona Republican Party. Update: Ahmed was defeated.
Deedra Abboud is a Democratic candidate for Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in District 2. Read more about Abboud here.
California
Kaisar Ahmed is a candidate for the 3rd District seat on the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors in California. Read more about Ahmed here. Update: Ahmed was defeated in the primary election on March 3, 2020.
Shahid Buttar is a candidate for Congress in California, District 12. Read more about Buttar here. Update: Buttar advanced from the Democratic primary on March 3, 2020. He will be on the ballot in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Ammar Campa-Najjar is a Democratic candidate for Congress in California’s 50th District. *Campa-Najjar claims he is not muslim but his grandfather was a muslim terrorist, therefore I thought he should be added to this list. Read more about Campa-Najjar here. Update: Cam
Fatima Shahnaz Iqbal-Zubair is a Democratic candidate for California State Assembly to represent District 64. Read more about Zubair here. Update: Iqbal-Zubair advanced from the Democratic primary on March 3, 2020. She will be on the ballot in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Colorado
Iman Jodeh (Democrat) is running for Colorado House of Representatives, District 41. Read more about Jodeh here.
Delaware
Madinah Wilson-Anton is a Democratic candidate for Delaware State Representative in the 26th District. Read more about Wilson-Anton here.
Florida
Imtiaz Ahmad Mohammad is a Democratic candidate for Congress in Florida District 22. Read more about Mohammad here.
Altaf Ahmed is a Democratic candidate for Broward County Commission District 1.
Saad Khan, a 27-year-old muslim man, is running for Weston City Commission, Seat 2, in Florida. The Primary Election is on August 25th 2020. Read more here.
Georgia
Nabila Islam (Democrat) is a candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Georgia, District 7. Read more about Islam here.
Rashid Malik is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Georgia’s 7th Congressional District. Read more about Malik here.
Illinois
Raees Yawer is a Democratic candidate for Illinois State Senate, District 22.
Rush Darwish is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District. Read more about Darwish here. Update: Darwish was defeated in the Democratic Primary Election.
Ameena Matthews is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Illinois’ 1st Congressional District. The Democratic primary election is on March 17, 2020. Read more about Matthews here.Update: Matthews was defeated in the Democratic Primary Election.
Azam Nizamuddin is a Democratic candidate for circuit judge in Dupage County, Illinois. Update: Nizamuddin advanced from the primary election on March 17, 2020. He will be on the ballot in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Maryland
Saafir Rabb is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Maryland’s 7th Congressional District. Read more about Rabb here.
Massachusetts
Ihssane leckey, a muslim immigrant from Morocco, is a Democratic candidate for Congress in Massachusetts, District 4. The primary election is on September 15, 2020.
Nichole Mossalam is a Democratic candidate for Massachusetts State Representative of the 35th District. Read more about Mossalam here.
Muzammil Nazir is a Democratic candidate for Massachusetts House of Representatives to represent the 3rd Bristol District.
Michigan
Solomon Rajput, a 27-year-old muslim man, has announced plans to challenge U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell in Michigan’s 12th congressional district. Read more about Rajput here.
Minnesota
Amal Ibrahim is a Democratic candidate Minnesota House of Representatives, District 60A. The Democratic primary election will be held on January 21, 2020. Update: Ibrahim was defeated in the Democratic primary election.
Mohamed Issa Barre is a Democratic candidate Minnesota House of Representatives, District 60A. The Democratic primary election will be held on January 21, 2020. Update: Barre was defeated in the Democratic primaryelection.
Saciido Shaie is a Democratic candidate Minnesota House of Representatives, District 60A. The Democratic primary election will be held on January 21, 2020. Update: Shaie was defeated in the Democratic primary election.
Dalia Al-Aqidi (Republican) is challenging Ilhan Omar for Minnesota’s 5th Congressional seat in the 2020 election. Read more about Al-Aqidi here.
Leila Shukri Adan is a Democratic candidate challenging Ilhan Omar for Minnesota’s 5th Congressional seat. Read more about Adan here.
Omar Fateh is a Democratic candidate for Minnesota State Senate, District 62. Read more about Fateh here.
Hodan Hassan is running for re-election to Minnesota House of Representatives, District 62A. Read more about Hassan here.
Safia Ahmed is running for Minnesota House of Representatives, District 41B. Read more about Ahmed here.
New Jersey
Alp Basaran is a Democratic candidate for New Jersey’s 9th congressional district. Read more about Basaran here.
New York
Badrun Nahar Khan is a Democratic candidate running for Congress in New York, District 14. Read more about Khan here.
Mary Jobaida is a candidate for New York State Assembly in West Queens.
Shaniyat Chowdhury is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in New York’s 5th Congressional District. The Democratic primary election is on June 23, 2020. Read more about Chowdhury here.
Tahanie Aboushi is a candidate for Manhattan District Attorney. Read more about Aboushi here.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani is a candidate for New York State Assembly, District 36. Read more about Mamdani here.
North Carolina
Nasir Shaikh is a Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in North Carolina’s 4th Congressional District. The Republican primary is on March 3, 2020. Update: Shaikh was defeated in the Republican primary.
Ohio
Mohamud Jama, a Somali immigrant, is running for Ohio House of Representatives in District 25. Read more here.
Reem Subei is a Democratic candidate for Ohio State Senate, District 2. Read more about Subei here.
Texas
Sri Preston Kulkarni is a Democratic candidate for Congress in Texas, District 22. *Kulkarni is not muslim but is associated with CAIR. Update: Kulkarni advanced from the Democratic primary on March 3, 2020. He will be on the ballot in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Imran Khan is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Texas’ 6th Congressional District. Update: Khan withdrew from the race.
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