BREAKING: Democrat Ghazala Hashmi Elected Nation’s First Muslim Lieutenant Governor

In Virginia tonight, it was a clean, blue sweep.

Former Democrat Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger was elected Governor.

Jay Jones — who fantasized about murdering a Republican official and his children — was elected Attorney-General.

And now, another Democrat has been elected as Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor.

Ghazala Hashmi has now become the first Muslim woman to be elected to statewide office in our nation.

BREAKING: Democrat Ghazala Hashmi has been elected Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, making history as the first Muslim woman ever elected to statewide office in U.S. history.

From the State Senate to the national stage, tonight, history spoke loudly. pic.twitter.com/MCZ7xopMDl

— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) November 5, 2025

Virginia state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi on Tuesday became the first Muslim-American woman elected to statewide office in the U.S. with her victory in the state's lieutenant governor's race, NBC News projects.https://t.co/F3ecWeetgs pic.twitter.com/VabysPbKYV

— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 5, 2025

Ghazala Hashmi is foreign-born, from India.

Before being elected as Lieutenant Governor, she was a state senator in Virginia.

Fox News has more:

The Fox News Decision Desk has projected that Democratic state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi will become the next lieutenant governor of Virginia.

Hashmi was born in Hyderabad, India, grew up in Georgia and represented Chesterfield County in the Virginia state Senate in her most recent public role.

She has a doctorate in American literature from Emory University, and her campaign repeatedly highlighted her curriculum vitae as a public educator.

She was a professor at the University of Richmond and the nearby J. Sergeant Reynolds Community College, where she was the first director of its Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.

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Hashmi was the only statewide candidate in the Virginia sweeps to repeatedly decline invitations and challenges to debate her opponent.

That opponent, Richmond broadcaster John Reid, in turn released a 45-minute mock debate video in which Hashmi’s public policy positions were highlighted in fact, but by an AI version of the lieutenant governor-elect.

Hashmi is also the first South Asian to have served in the state Senate.

Hashmi touted her achievement of becoming the first Muslim woman to be elected to statewide office in her victory speech.

From NBC News:

In a victory speech Tuesday night, Hashmi thanked her supporters and told them, “Together, we have carved a new historic path.”

Hashmi, an immigrant, added later in her speech, “My own journey from a young child landing at the airport in Savannah to now being elected as the first Muslim woman to achieve statewide office — the first Muslim woman to achieve statewide office not just in Virginia, but in the entire country … was possible because of the depth and the breadth of the opportunities made available in this country and in this commonwealth.”

In is the second time Hashmi has made history in an election; in 2019 she was the first Muslim American woman elected to Virginia’s Legislature. Since then, she has served in the statehouse representing a district southwest of Washington, D.C.

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Tonight, the Democrats sent a clear message to the rest of us on exactly where they want to take our country…

It’s just disgraceful.

Virginia just elected the "first Muslim woman elected to statewide office" in American history—someone named “Ghazala Hashmi.”

Exactly how our Protestant Christian Founding Fathers intended! pic.twitter.com/ctwcn8PDH6

— William Wolfe 🇺🇸 (@William_E_Wolfe) November 5, 2025