Saba Haider wins Illinois House election for District 84 with 70.9% vote

Ghaziabad: Saba Haider, whose family is linked to Ghaziabad, has won the Illinois House District 84 election in the United States. Reported results showed the Democrat receiving 20,756 votes, or 70.9%, against Republican Brian Scopa’s 8,520 votes, or 29.1%.

Haider was elected on November 3 to represent District 84 in the Illinois House. Her campaign identifies her as a DuPage County Board member and community advocate. Independent election coverage also reported her victory in the district race.

According to family information supplied for this report, Haider’s family lives in Sanjay Nagar, Ghaziabad. Her father is a retired Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam engineer, while her mother is a homemaker who also runs a school for children from minority communities.

The family said Haider studied at Holy Child School in Ghaziabad and completed a BSc with a gold medal at RCCV Girls College. They said she later earned an MSc in Wildlife Sciences from Aligarh Muslim University, also with a gold medal.

Family members described her campaign as rooted in door-to-door outreach despite harsh weather. Before the state-house election, she served on the DuPage County Board, where the family said she worked on mental-health, environmental and community-service matters.

Haider’s win is being celebrated by relatives in Ghaziabad as a significant achievement. The supplied photographs include an image in which a name badge identifies Haider; other photographs are published as supplied, with minors’ identities protected.