Mumbai: 10 Muslim candidates have won the election in Maharashtra raising the number of Muslim candidates in the 14th Legislative Assembly to 10 from earlier 9. 9 Muslim MLAs were elected in 2014.
Candidate | Party | Constituency |
Amin Patel | Congress | Mumbadevi |
Aslam Shaikh | Congress | Malad |
Hasan Mushrif | NCP | Kagal |
Abu Asim Azmi | Samajwadi Party | Shivaji Nagar-Mankhurd |
Mufti Ismail | AIMIM | Malegaon Central |
Shah Faruk | AIMIM | Dhule City |
Rais Shaikh | Samajwadi Party | Bhiwandi East |
Nawab Malik | NCP | Anushakti Nagar |
Zeeshan Siddiqui | Congress | Bandra East |
Abdul Sattar | Shiv Sena | Sillod |
According to Indian Express, with a population of 1.3 crores, Muslims constitute 11.56 per cent of Maharashtra’s total 11.24-crore population. Majority of Muslim population resides in northern Konkan, Khandesh, Marathwada and western Vidarbha.
In 1999 the state had the highest number of Muslim MLAs in the Assembly with 13 candidates. After been on a decline for a decade again the community has picked up in 2019.