Hasan Finch

    

The Honorable Hasan Finch
Official Office Portrait
K.S. Senator from the Inland Empire
Incumbent
Assumed office February 8, 2022 Serving with Harriet Barry, Preston Barton
Preceded by	Elizabeth Geffreys
Member of the Inland Empire Provincial Assembly for the 18th district
In office November 10, 2018 – February 8, 2022
Preceded by	Mitchell Briggs
Succeeded by	TBA
Personal details
Born	(1980-10-12) October 12, 1980 Surrey Creek, Inland Empire, Sierra
Political party	Democratic-Republican
Spouse(s)	Michelle Finch (m. 2002)
Children	2
Education	University of Sierra, Riverside
Profession	Politician
Religion	Sunni Islam

Hasan Finch (Arabic:حسن فنش; born October 12, 1980) is a Sierran politician who has served as a junior Sierran Senator from the Inland Empire since 2022 and previously served as a member of the Inland Empire Provincial Assembly for the 18th district from 2018 to 2022 and is one of the first Sierran Muslims elected to the legislature. He is a member of the Democratic-Republican Party. Finch was born in Surrey Creek and has spent much of his life in the Inland Empire and attended the University of Sierra, Riverside after graduating high school. Finch would run in the 2018 Inland Empire legislative election to the provincial assembly to represent the 18th district which includes his home town of Surrey Creek and won succeeding Mitchell Briggs after the latter resigned to run for the House of Commons.

As a member of the Inland Empire Provincial Assembly, Finch has supported liberal and progressive legislation and has been a staunch and vocal supporter of Farah Young. In 2019, he helped propose and co-sponsor the Affordable Insulin Act to make insulin more affordable in the Inland Empire by lowing its prices to no more than $30 and garnered significant media attention and recognition. During the 2020 Sierran Senate elections, Finch ran for the race in the Inland Empire against Royalist incumbent Antonio Suarez and Christian Democrat Harriet Barry coming in third place in the hotly contested election. He announced a second bid for the Senate on October 11 and won the Democratic-Republican nomination on December 15, 2021, for the upcoming election in 2022. He will be running against Royalist nominee and MP Matthew DeSantis and Christian Democratic nominee and candidate Brandon Lee for the seat in the Senate

The general election occured on February 1 and ended with Finch winning and becoming the first Democratic-Republican senator from the Inland Empire in over twenty years. Finch's margin of victory was the smallest of the race being at 0.1% and was contested by DeSantis and his campaign who claimed that voter fraud helped Finch win. A recount was carried out by the Inland Empire Board of Elections which concluded that Finch's victory was legitimate and that there was no evidence of voter fraud committed during the election. Finch is the first Democratic-Republican to represent the Inland Empire in the Senate since 1996 and is the first Sunni Muslim to both represent the Inland Empire and to be a member of Parliament.

Senate campaigns

2020 campaign

Main article: 2020 Sierran Senate election in Inland Empire

2022 campaign

Main article: 2022 Sierran Senate election in Inland Empire