How Many Muslim Candidates Won in the Lok Sabha Elections?

In the recently concluded 18th Lok Sabha elections in India, a total of 78 Muslim candidates contested, out of which 15 emerged victorious. Among the winners is Yusuf Pathan, a member of India's World Cup-winning cricket team.

According to a report by NDTV, 115 Muslim candidates participated in the 17th Lok Sabha elections in 2019, which decreased to 78 candidates in the current election.

Former World Cup-winning cricketer Yusuf Pathan, contesting for the Trinamool Congress, defeated Adhir Chowdhury, the state president of the Congress, from Baharampur in Murshidabad, West Bengal, with a margin of 85,000 votes.

Other successful Muslim candidates include Congress candidate Imran Masood, who won the Saharanpur seat in Uttar Pradesh with a margin of over 64,000 votes. Samajwadi Party leader Iqra Chaudhary defeated BJP leader Pradeep Kumar in the Kairana constituency in Uttar Pradesh by over 69,000 votes. Another Samajwadi Party Muslim candidate, Afzal Ansari, won the Ghazipur seat in the same state.

AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi retained his seat in Hyderabad, defeating BJP's Madhavi Latha Kompella.

In Ladakh, independent Muslim candidate Mohammad Hanafi and another independent Muslim candidate Abdul Rashid Sheikh from Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir, won by a margin of 470,000 votes. In Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party candidate Mohibullah won the Rampur seat with over 481,000 votes. Ziaur Rahman secured victory in the Sambhal constituency.

National Conference candidate Mian Altaf Ahmad defeated former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti in the Anantnag-Rajouri constituency. Additionally, NC candidate Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi won in Srinagar. Congress candidate Rakibul Hussain won the Dhubri seat with a margin of 1,012,000 votes.

According to the final results for the 543 Lok Sabha seats announced on Tuesday, the ruling BJP won 240 seats, and the main opposition party, Congress, secured 99 seats. To achieve a majority in the Lok Sabha, a party or coalition needs 272 seats. No single party obtained enough seats to form a government independently.

However, the announced results show that the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has a total of 293 seats, while the Congress-led India coalition has 233 seats. Given that the NDA has reached the required majority, it will form the government. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a speech on Tuesday, also announced that he would take office for the third time.