How many Muslim state legislators serve in each US state as of 2025?

1. What the headlines say — a record year, but with limited detail

Several news outlets and advocacy-oriented sites portray 2025 as a record year for Muslim electoral success, reporting 42 Muslim Americans elected to public office across at least nine states and noting the group included “four state legislators” ^[1][2][3]. These pieces emphasize breadth — mayors, judges, school-board members and dozens of local officials — rather than a granular breakdown of state legislative membership ^[1][2][3].

2. The specific claim many are repeating — “four state legislators”

Two of the articles explicitly count state legislators among the victors, saying the newly elected cohort included “four state legislators” ^[2][3]. Those stories do not provide a named, verifiable roster of which state legislative chambers or which states those four legislators represent; the reporting lists some notable names in other offices but not a comprehensive, state-by-state legislative tally ^[1][2].

3. What established data projects say (and don’t say)

Established trackers of religion and officeholders, like Pew’s page on the 119th Congress, document religious composition at the federal level (including one Muslim member of the 119th Congress) but do not provide a state-by-state count of Muslim state legislators in the materials provided here ^[4]. Wikipedia’s list of Muslim members of Congress similarly focuses on federal officeholders and notes five Muslims have been elected to Congress as of 2025; it does not offer a comprehensive list of state legislators by state in the supplied excerpt ^[5].

4. Local names reported, but mostly in other offices

Coverage highlights several individual Muslim officeholders elected in 2025 — for example, Zohran K. Mamdani in New York (mayoral), Ghazala Hashmi in Virginia (lieutenant governor), and other local and statewide firsts — but the sample items in the reporting tend to spotlight high-profile or historic wins rather than enumerate statehouse members ^[1][2][6]. Profiles such as that of Colorado legislator Iman Jodeh document state-level Muslim legislators exist, but these are presented as single examples rather than as part of a full, state-by-state accounting ^[7].

5. Advocacy groups promise a directory; journalists await verification

CAIR and allied outlets announced plans to publish a 2025–2026 Directory of Elected Muslim Officials in January to document the wins and provide a more systematic count ^[3]. Until that directory or another authoritative roster is released and corroborated by independent journalists, the precise number of Muslim state legislators in each U.S. state remains unreported in the materials at hand ^[3].

6. Disinformation and partisan framing are already present

Reaction pieces range from celebratory coverage to alarmist commentary. Some partisan or activist sites frame the outcome as a coordinated political machine or “infiltration,” while others frame it as civic progress; those claims should be weighed against primary lists and verifiable rosters when they appear ^[8][6]. The RAIR piece, for example, advances a conspiratorial narrative about CAIR without providing the kind of candidate-level roster necessary to substantiate claims about coordination ^[8].

7. What’s missing and how to get a definitive answer

The current sources do not provide a state-by-state table of Muslim state legislators for 2025. For a definitive count per state, obtain the CAIR/CAIR Action directory promised for January 2026 ^[3], consult state legislative websites and sworn-member bios, or cross-check voter guides and local reporting that identify officeholders’ religious self-identification. Available sources do not mention a comprehensive, verified state-by-state breakdown at this time ^[3][4][5].

Limitations: this analysis uses only the supplied reporting and advocacy pieces; it cannot invent names or numbers beyond those explicitly reported.