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As of 2026, six Muslims have been elected to the United States Congress, the first being Keith Ellison in 2006.^[1] As of the 119th Congress, five Muslims currently serve in Congress, all in the House of Representatives; all are members of the Democratic Party.

Senate

In the 2026 United States Senate election in Michigan, Democrat Abdul El-Sayed defeated Republican Mike Rogers, becoming the first Muslim elected to the Senate. He is expected to take office on January 3, 2027, becoming the first Muslim to serve in the chamber.^[2][3]

House of Representatives

Further information: Religious affiliation in the United States House of Representatives

In addition to the representatives below, former representative Hansen Clarke (D-MI-13) of Michigan was raised in a Muslim family but converted to Catholicism. Current representatives Abraham Hamadeh (R-AZ-08) of Arizona, who identifies as religiously unaffiliated, and Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ-03) of Arizona, who identifies as agnostic, were raised in Muslim families. Darializa Avila Chevalier (D), a convert to Islam, is the representative-elect for New York’s 13th congressional district. Adam Hamawy (D) is the representative-elect for New Jersey’s 12th congressional district.^[4]

Representative		Party		District	Term			Notes
					Start	End	Length of service
	Keith Ellison		Democratic	MN-05	January 3, 2007	January 3, 2019	12 years, 0 days	First Muslim in Congress. Converted to Islam in 1982. Retired to run successfully for Minnesota Attorney General.[1]
	André Carson		Democratic	IN-07	March 11, 2008	Incumbent	18 years, 239 days	Raised Baptist, converted to Islam as a teenager.[5]
	Ilhan Omar		Democratic	MN-05	January 3, 2019	Incumbent	7 years, 306 days	One of the first two Muslim women in Congress. First Muslim to succeed another Muslim. Born to a Muslim family in Somalia and immigrated as a refugee to the United States in 1995.[6]
	Rashida Tlaib		Democratic	MI-13, MI-12	January 3, 2019	Incumbent	7 years, 306 days	One of the first two Muslim women in Congress. Born to a Muslim family of Palestinian immigrants.[7]
	Lateefah Simon		Democratic	CA-12	January 3, 2025	Incumbent	1 year, 306 days	First Muslim elected to Congress from outside of the Midwestern United States.
	Aisha Wahab		Democratic	CA-14	September 2, 2026	Incumbent	64 days	Born in Queens, New York to a Muslim family of Afghan refugees. Following the death of her parents, she was adopted by an Afghan American couple in Fremont, California.[8]

source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Muslim_members_of_the_United_States_Congress