A 35-year-old Nigerian-American, Esther Agbaje, has won the
Minnesota House of Representatives ticket in the 2020 United States election.
Agbaje defeated her closest rival, Alan Shilepsky, by a
landslide.
She scored a total of 17,396 votes, which represents 74.6
per cent of the total votes cast.
Shilepsky, a nominee for the Republican Party, scored 4,128
votes, representing 17.7 per cent of the total votes cast.
Agbaje confirmed that she would be representing District 59B
in the Minnesota House of Representatives on the platform of the Minnesota
Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFLP), an affiliate of the U.S. Democratic
Party, on her website.
The 35-year-old daughter of an Episcopal priest and a
librarian, both Nigerian immigrants, defeated longtime state Representative Raymond
Dehn in the party’s primary in August.
She is one of four progressive greenhorns who defeated
established Democratic legislators in the primary.
Agbaje has a law degree from Harvard University, a Master’s
from the University of Pennsylvania, and has served in the U.S. Department of
State, among others.
Earlier, Nigerian-American, Oye Owolewa, was elected as a
shadow member of the United States House of Representatives from the District
of Columbia.
According to election results on the website of the District
of Columbia Board of Elections on Wednesday morning, Owolewa polled 81.59 per
cent of the votes, which represents 164,026 votes against Joyce Robinson-Paul,
who scored 18,600 votes, and Sohaer Syed with 15,372 votes.
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