At least 15 Muslim candidates have won Lok Sabha seats, including Trinamool Congress nominee and former cricketer Yusuf Pathan, who convincingly defeated Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury in the Congress veteran's Baharampur stronghold in West Bengal.
There were just 78 Muslims contesting the Lok Sabha election from the INDIA bloc, a decrease from the 115 that various parties of the alliance had fielded in the previous polls in 2019.
Congress candidate Imran Masood of Saharanpur won by a margin of 64,542 votes, while Iqra Choudhary, a 29-year-old Samajwadi Party candidate from Kairana, defeated the BJP’s Pradeep Kumar by 69,116 votes.
Meanwhile, the Congress’s Rakibul Hussain defeated heavyweight candidate Mohammed Badruddin Ajmal in Dhubri, Assam, by a record margin of 1,012,476 votes.
In Ladakh, independent candidate Mohammad Haneefa won by 27,862 votes, while another independent candidate, Abdul Rashid Sheikh, won the Baramulla seat in Jammu and Kashmir with over 470,000 votes.
BJP concedes defeat in AyodhyaIn Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party's Mohibbullah won the Rampur seat with 481,503 votes, while Zia Ur Rehman won Sambhal by over 120,000 votes.
Mian Altaf Ahmad of the National Conference defeated former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti in the Anantnag-Rajouri seat by 281,794 votes. In Srinagar, NC candidate Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi won by securing 356,866 votes.
Indian election results: Which party won how many seatsAll India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) retained the Hyderabad Lok Sabha seat as the party president and one of the notable Muslim leaders, Asaduddin Owaisi, emerged victorious with a huge margin of over 338,000 votes.
Notably, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) fielded 35 Muslim candidates in 2024, the highest among all parties, albeit almost half of the 61 it had in 2014.
The ruling BJP had only one Muslim candidate, in Mallappuram, Kerala -- Dr Abdul Salam who lost to IUML candidate Mohammed Basheer.
