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Virginia State Senate
Saddam Azlan Salim
State Senate — District 37
Democrat
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✝ God First
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🏛️ State First
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National Rank
#5,158 of 8,957 · bottom 42.4% among candidates with at least one scored answer
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Next Election
November 2, 2027
Primary · Not up at next scheduled election
— until
Registration deadline: 2026-10-13
Early voting: 2026-09-18 – 2026-10-31
Elections office: (804) 864-8901
Voter status: Check registration
State elections site: Virginia Department of Elections
Official Profile
Religion: Muslim (Islam) — first publicly Muslim member of the Virginia Senate
Background: VA State Senator, District 37 (Fairfax/Falls Church/Vienna/Tysons/Oakton), in office since Jan 2024. Born Noakhali, Bangladesh (1990), immigrated age 10, raised in Falls Church. George Mason BA + MPA; career in financial services.
VA State Senator, SD-37 (Fairfax/Falls Church), sitting since Jan 2024. [2026-06 RESOLUTE refinement, state tier] Uniformly progressive HARD record and a LEAD author of the marquee items this rubric opposes: chief patron of SJ247, the 2025 reproductive-freedom constitutional amendment (voted YES; Planned Parenthood + REPRO Rising endorsed; 'protect and expand access to abortion'); co-patron of SJ249, the same-sex-marriage constitutional amendment (voted YES); chief patron of the assault-weapons + large-capacity-magazine ban SB749 (Giffords-endorsed); chief patron of SB351/352/783 restricting state-local 287(g) ICE cooperation ('Virginia will not be a staging ground for an unconstitutional mass deportation campaign'); sponsored DMV automatic-voter-registration. No conservative deviations found. christian_liberty, refuse_federal_overreach, and several sub-cells (embryonic research, euthanasia, CBDC, E-Verify, constitutional carry) returned NO public evidence and are left null.
Category Breakdown
Candidate affirms life begins at conception and personhood from conception
1 claim
Saddam Azlan Salim voted to pass — and co-sponsored — Virginia's constitutional amendment recognizing Virginians' fundamental right to reproductive freedom, encompassing abortion, contraception, miscarriage management, and fertility care. Virginia's Choice Tracker rates him explicitly as Pro-Choice. He stated the amendment would enshrine reproductive rights in the state constitution, 'safeguarding these freedoms from potential future assaults by the General Assembly,' directly rejecting any life-at-conception or personhood standard.
- Choice TrackerLeft Advocacy
- salimforsenate.comUnclassified
- fcnp.comUnclassified
Candidate has voted for or sponsored state legislation moving toward abortion abolition (e.g., heartbeat ban, total ban) — not merely restrictions
FALSE (0)[2]
Candidate opposes state funding for embryonic stem-cell research and supports state IVF embryo-protection laws
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes state physician-assisted suicide laws and opposes state Medicaid death-panel rationing
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Candidate has never accepted abortion-industry PAC funding for state-legislative or statewide-office campaigns
FALSE (0)[1]
Candidate affirms marriage as exclusively the lifelong union of one man and one woman as instituted by God
FALSE (0)[3]
Candidate opposes state recognition of same-sex marriage / civil unions / domestic partnerships, and supports state non-recognition resolutions where federally permitted
FALSE (0)[3]
Candidate has voted for state legislation affirming biological sex (bathroom/locker access, sports participation, minor gender-procedure bans)
Not yet verified
Candidate supports state no-fault divorce reform and pro-marriage policy (covenant marriage option, waiting periods, etc.)
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes promotion of LGBTQ+ identity in state-funded schools, state agencies, and state corporate-partnership programs
Not yet verified
Candidate has voted for state school-choice (vouchers, ESAs, charter expansion) and supports state homeschool freedom statutes
Not yet verified
Candidate has voted for state law requiring parental notification + consent on minors' medical, mental-health, and gender interventions (incl. school counseling referrals)
Not yet verified
Candidate has voted for state law restricting CRT/SOGI/comprehensive-sex-ed/gender-ideology curricula in K-12
Not yet verified
Candidate has voted for state age-verification laws on pornographic content and state criminal penalties for sexualizing minors
Not yet verified
Candidate has voted for state RFRA-style protections for faith-based adoption + foster agencies; opposes state-mandated SS-couple placement
Not yet verified
Candidate affirms the right to publicly profess Christ in all spheres (workplace, military, public office, schools)
Not yet verified
Candidate has voted for state conscience-exemption laws (state RFRA, medical-professional carve-outs, business-owner protections)
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes state-level pronoun mandates + state 'hate speech' laws restricting Christian conviction
Not yet verified
Candidate supports state public-square Christian display protections + state legislative prayer + state Sunday-closure laws
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes state-funded promotion of non-Christian religious displays/curricula/holidays in state institutions
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Candidate has voted for state law protecting cash as legal tender, opposing state-level CBDC pilot programs, and protecting crypto-as-property status
Not yet verified
Candidate supports sound-money policies including gold/silver as constitutional money and audit/abolition of the Federal Reserve
N/A · out of tier
Candidate has voted for state balanced-budget compliance + opposed state borrowing for non-capital expenditures
Not yet verified
Candidate has voted for state usury caps + state predatory-lending protections + state charitable-deduction parity
Not yet verified
Candidate has voted for state pension/treasury divestment from ESG-aligned funds (e.g., BlackRock) + state anti-monopoly enforcement against financial cartels
Not yet verified
Candidate (state SoS/legislature) has voted for state hand-count requirements / opposed electronic voting machines
Not yet verified
Candidate (state SoS/legislature) has voted for state photo voter ID + citizenship verification at registration
Not yet verified
Candidate has voted to restrict state early-voting windows + tighten state absentee qualifications to verified medical/military
FALSE (0)[4]
Candidate has voted against state mass mail-in voting expansion, against state drop-box deployment, and against legalizing ballot harvesting
Not yet verified
Candidate (state SoS/legislature) has voted to ban state acceptance of private election grants ('Zuckerbucks') + state penalties for foreign interference
Not yet verified
Candidate (state) has voted for state-funded border-security measures (e.g., TX Operation Lone Star analog, AZ wall expansion)
Not yet verified
Candidate (state) has voted for state laws requiring local cooperation with ICE deportation enforcement
FALSE (0)[5]
Candidate (state) has voted to preempt or punish sanctuary-city policies + ban state cities from declaring sanctuary status
FALSE (0)[5]
Candidate (state) has voted for state E-Verify mandate (beyond federal floor) for state employers + state-benefit eligibility verification
Not yet verified
Candidate (state) has voted to restrict foreign ownership of state farmland (e.g., China-buyer prohibitions)
Not yet verified
Candidate supports constitutional carry without permit requirements
Not yet verified
Candidate (state) has voted against state red-flag laws, mag-capacity limits, AWBs, and registries (or voted to repeal where enacted)
1 claim
Senator Salim introduced SB848 to raise the age to purchase an assault firearm to 21 years old, and SB891 to impose a five-day waiting period before any firearm purchase — explicitly arguing both measures would reduce gun homicides and suicides. These bills directly oppose the rubric's anti-restriction and anti-waiting-period principles protecting Second Amendment rights.
- salimforsenate.comUnclassified
- fcnp.comUnclassified
- LegiScanReference
Candidate (state) has voted for state constitutional-carry statute
Not yet verified
Candidate (state) has voted against state universal-background-check schemes
Not yet verified
Candidate (state) has voted to enact / strengthen state Castle Doctrine + stand-your-ground statute
Not yet verified
Candidate has publicly backed law enforcement and opposed defunding/dismantling police
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes cashless-bail, soft-on-crime, and rogue-prosecutor (e.g. Soros-DA) policy
Not yet verified
Candidate supports victim restitution and proportional punishment of evildoers
Not yet verified
Candidate refuses to treat violent crime as a "public health" excuse to avoid punishment
Not yet verified
Candidate affirms the magistrate's God-ordained duty to bear the sword (Rom. 13:4)
Not yet verified
Official has voted for or sponsored 10th-Amendment nullification or anti-commandeering measures
Not yet verified
Official has declined unconstitutional federal mandates or federal strings on the state
Not yet verified
Official has resisted federal overreach on guns, life, education, or religious liberty
Not yet verified
Official affirms state sovereignty against unconstitutional federal action
Not yet verified
Official has opposed federal capture of state elections, data, or land
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Sources & Evidence
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Vote Smart — Voting RecordReference
reportcard.familyfoundation.org/Right Advocacy
www.vcdl.org/Right Advocacy
reportcard.familyfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2...Right Advocacy
freedomindex.us/va/Right Advocacy
Choice Tracker — Abortion VotesLeft Advocacy
giffords.org/candidates/saddam-salim/Unclassified
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References & footnotes
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- [1]Chief patron of SJ247, the reproductive-freedom constitutional amendment; voted YES; policy page: 'protect and expand access to abortion.' Does not affirm personhood from conception. Left Advocacy
Chief patron of SJ247, the reproductive-freedom constitutional amendment; voted YES; policy page: 'protect and expand access to abortion.' Does not affirm personhood from conception.
- [2]Chief patron of SJ247, the reproductive-freedom constitutional amendment; voted YES; policy page: 'protect and expand access to abortion.' Does not affirm personhood from conception. Official
Chief patron of SJ247, the reproductive-freedom constitutional amendment; voted YES; policy page: 'protect and expand access to abortion.' Does not affirm personhood from conception.
- [3]Co-patron of SJ249, the constitutional amendment to repeal Virginia's same-sex-marriage ban; voted YES (Senate 24-15, Jan 2025). Official
Co-patron of SJ249, the constitutional amendment to repeal Virginia's same-sex-marriage ban; voted YES (Senate 24-15, Jan 2025).
- [4]Sponsored DMV automatic-voter-registration update; supports expanded ballot access rather than single-day in-person voting. Unclassified
Sponsored DMV automatic-voter-registration update; supports expanded ballot access rather than single-day in-person voting.
- [5]Chief patron of SB351/352/783 restricting state cooperation with federal deportation; opposes mandatory deportation. Unclassified
Chief patron of SB351/352/783 restricting state cooperation with federal deportation; opposes mandatory deportation.
- [6]Chief patron of SB749 (assault-weapons + large-capacity-magazine ban), SB848 (raise purchase age), SB891 (waiting period); supports red-flag laws; Giffords-endorsed. Unclassified
Chief patron of SB749 (assault-weapons + large-capacity-magazine ban), SB848 (raise purchase age), SB891 (waiting period); supports red-flag laws; Giffords-endorsed.
- [7]Chief patron of SB749 (assault-weapons + large-capacity-magazine ban), SB848 (raise purchase age), SB891 (waiting period); supports red-flag laws; Giffords-endorsed. Official
Chief patron of SB749 (assault-weapons + large-capacity-magazine ban), SB848 (raise purchase age), SB891 (waiting period); supports red-flag laws; Giffords-endorsed.
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