India-born Saba Haider wins Illinois State Representative election

New York India-born Democrat Saba Haider has won election to the Illinois House of Representatives, becoming the first South Asian woman to be elected to the state's General Assembly. Ms. Haider won the November 3 U.S. mid-term elections from the 84th District with 70.9% of the votes, securing 20,756 ballots against her Republican rival Brian Scopa, who received 8,520 votes, or 29.1%. Making sense of the blue shift in U.S. midterm election | a collection complexpackage 1 Pia Dandiya, first-generation Indian-American, wins U.S. House of Representatives seat from Florida Pia Dandiya, first-generation Indian-American, wins U.S. House of Representatives seat from Florida Ms. Dandiya, a former high school principal, bagged 51.9% of the votes to become the newest Indian-American U.S. congresswoman, as per the results declared Pia Dandiya, first-generation Indian-American, wins U.S.