Zohran Mamdani was not the only Muslim politician in the United States to have a historic election night as he won the New York City mayoral race.

Ghazala Hashmi, also of the Democratic Party, won a state lieutenant governor’s race on Tuesday, becoming the first Indian American and first Muslim to win statewide office in Virginia.

“This was possible,” she said in her victory speech, “because of the depth and breadth of the opportunities made available in this country and in this commonwealth.”

Hashmi, 61, arrived in the US as a child, coming from Hyderabad, India, with her family to join her father, who was teaching at Georgia Southern University in Savannah.

Hashmi is currently a state senator representing a district south of Richmond, Virginia. Prior to that, she worked as a colleg

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