About nine Nigerian-Americans are on the ballot for Tuesday’s elections in the United States.

The candidates, who are mostly running on the platform of the Democratic Party, are bidding for various offices at the Federal, State and Local levels.

Asides the presidential election, Governorship polls are holding in 11 states and two territories.

Congressional elections are also holding on Tuesday with all the 435 seats in the US House of Representatives, and 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate are up for grabs.

At the federal level, Mr Oye Owolewa, whose father is from Kwara and mother from Oyo, is aiming for a seat in the House of Representatives.

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Owolewa, a Ph.D holder in Pharmacy from the Northeastern University, Boston, is seeking to represent the District of Columbia (DC) under the Democratic Party.

Also at the federal level, Mr Yomi Faparusi, an Ibadan-born native of Ode-Ekiti in Ekiti State, is vying as an independent candidate to represent the State of Tennessee in the US Senate.

Faparusi holds a doctorate in Medicine from the University of Ibadan, a Ph.D. in Health from John Hopkins University, and Juris Doctorate from the Widener University School of Law, Delaware.

This is not his first at the US Congress. In 2014 and 2016, he contested for the Republican Party’s ticket to the House of Representatives, but lost in both occasions.

In Missouri, Yinka Faleti, from Lagos is the Democratic Party flagbearer in the election for the office of Secretary of State.

Faleti was in the US Army as an active-duty officer from 1998 to 2004. He served in Kuwait, first under Operation Desert Spring and later as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Similarly, at the State level, Mr Paul Akinjo from Ondo, is running for election to the California State Assembly under the Democratic Party to represent District 12.

Akinjo once served as Vice Mayor of Lathrop, California, and in the US Army Reserve from 1982 to 1989. His priorities include housing, immigration and transportation.

In Delaware, a small Mid-Atlantic U.S. state, Adewunmi Kuforiji, is aspiring to represent District 34 in the state House of Representatives.

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Kuforiji, originally from Ibadan, Oyo, secured the Democratic Party’s ticket on September 15 after defeating his challenger, Robert Haynes, at the primary.

He holds a Bachelor in Accounting and a Master’s in Business Administration from the Delaware State University.