Four Nigerian-Americans have won elective positions in the November 3 midterm elections in the United States, while the outcome of another candidate, Segun Adeyina, remained uncertain as votes were still being counted.

The winners are Will Jawando, Junior Ezeonu, Oye Owolewa and Carol Kazeem, who secured positions in local government and state legislatures across Maryland, Texas, Washington, DC, and Pennsylvania.

Jawando, the Democratic Party candidate, won the race for Montgomery County Executive in Maryland, defeating his Republican challenger, Esther Wells.

Results published by NBC Washington on Wednesday showed that Jawando polled 237,383 votes, representing 78.15 per cent, against Wells’s 66,383 votes, or 21.85 per cent, with 72 per cent of the expected votes counted.

Before the election, Jawando served as a member of the Montgomery County Council. He is the son of a Nigerian father and an American mother. The Baltimore Banner and The Washington Post have previously reported on his Nigerian heritage and political career.

In Texas, 27-year-old Ezeonu, also a Democrat, secured a seat in the state’s House of Representatives for District 101 after defeating incumbent Chris Turner in the Democratic primary.

Ezeonu was the only candidate on the ballot for the November general election after no Republican opponent entered the race.

According to his campaign biography, he was born in Onitsha, Anambra State, and moved to Texas at the age of two. He was elected to the Grand Prairie City Council in 2021 and subsequently became the youngest mayor pro tempore in the city’s history.

In Washington, DC, Owolewa, the Democratic candidate, won an at-large seat on the District of Columbia Council.

The 51st, a local news publication, reported that Owolewa secured 69 per cent of the votes, against 21 per cent recorded by his independent challenger, Elissa Silverman.

Owolewa, a pharmacist and son of Nigerian immigrants from Kwara and Osun states, previously served as the District’s elected shadow representative. The position advocates for statehood but does not confer voting rights in the US Congress.

Meanwhile, Kazeem, also a Democrat, retained her seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing District 159.

She contested on the platform of the Democratic Party against Republican candidate Michael Bannon, with results published by MultiState Elections listing her as the winner.

Kazeem was among eight Nigerian-Americans who won legislative seats in the 2022 US midterm elections.

Another Nigerian-born Democrat, Adeyina, was seeking re-election to the Georgia House of Representatives for District 110, where he faced Republican candidate Charles Lollar.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s election tracker initially showed Adeyina leading Lollar with 1,353 votes against 689. However, only eight per cent of the estimated votes had been counted at the time of the update, leaving the outcome of the contest uncertain.

Adeyina was first elected to the Georgia House in 2022 and represents parts of Gwinnett County. His official legislative biography identifies him as the executive director of the Nigerian American Public Advisory Committee, an organisation involved in voter education and registration among immigrant communities.

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

Governorships, as well as state and local government positions, are also decided during the polls.