Excitement As Four Nigerian-Americans Win US Midterm Elections

Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora are savoring great moments as Four Nigerian-Americans have emerged victories in Tuesday’s midterm elections in the United States, while the result of another candidate, Segun Adeyina, is still pending as the time of filing this report on Wednesday.

The US midterm elections are held halfway through a president’s four-year term and determine the composition of Congress. All the 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the Senate’s 100 seats were contested in the 2026 elections.

The winners are Will Jawando, the Democratic Party Candidate, who defeated the Republican candidate Esther Wells in the Montgomery County executive in Maryland, with a wide margin after over 72% of the votes have been counted. He scored 237,383 votes representing 78.15 % of the vote cast.

The victory songs continue for Nigeria in Texas as 27-year-old Junior  Ezeonu also a Democrat said to be originally from Anambra state won a seat in the state’s House of Representatives for District 101 after no  Republican opponent entered the race.

Ezeonu. Photo Google

From Washington DC comes a sweet victory for another Nigerian Oye Owolewa, a pharmacists and the Democratic candidate, who won an at-large seat on the District of Columbia Council after securing 69 per cent of the vote, against independent candidate Elissa Silverman’s 21 per cent. He is the son of Nigerian immigrants from Kwara State.

Oye Owolewa. Photo: Instagram (@repoyedc)

Completing the roll call of victory for Nigerians is Democratic Carol Kazeem, who retained her seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing District 159 after defeating Republican Michael Bannon.

Carol Kazeem. Photo: Kazeem on Facebook

Kazeem alongside  seven other Nigerian-Americans participated and  won legislative seats in the 2022 US midterm polls.