A SHIFT IN FAITH After national parties failed to send Muslim candidates to the 16th , voters in the community might shift to Muslim-centric parties National parties, including the Congress and the Bahujan Samaj Party, have disappointed Muslims in the current Lok Sabha elections. Parties such as the Samajwadi Party, Muslim parliamentarians in Lok Sabha which survive on the 12345678910111213141516 support of ’s 13.4 22 19 26 28 32 33 51 48 31 21 24 27 30 32 30 23 per cent Muslim population, couldn’t take even one Muslim State-wise Muslim MPs (2014) Muslim dominated to Parliament. The constituencies : 102 only face saver was West Bengal % of Muslim voters from Muslim-centric 50 and above parties that got eight ! 15 seats ! Muslims won 10 seats, one more than Kerala in the previous Lok J&K Sabha elections. A Assam Between 40-50 quick analysis !13 seats ! Muslims won 6 suggests most Muslim Andhra Pradesh candidates won in places where their Lakshadweep Between 20-40 population was at Tamil Nadu !74 seats ! Muslims won 7 least 40 per cent : One figure=1 Who have Muslims voted for (in %)? Uttar Pradesh

! Congress ! Left ! SP ! Others Seat % of 2014 2014 2009 Muslim winner runner-up winner 41 40 39 40 38 40 36 RAMPUR 49.1 BJP SP Congress 32 30 32 25 Voter turnout 59.32% Votes 19 BJP Nepal Singh 358,616 15 13 11 12 SP Naseer Ahmad Khan 335,181 8 10 9 10 Congress Nawab Kazim Ali Khan 156,466 BSP Akbar Husain 81,006 1996 1998 1999 2004 2009 AIMF* Jannat Nisha 4,473 AAP Syed Salman Ali 1,996 Bihar *All India Minority Front Seat % of 2014 2014 2009 Muslim winner runner up winner MORADABAD 45.5 BJP SP BSP Voter turnout 63.58% Votes 17.5 RJD BJP BJP BJP Kunwer Sarvesh Kumar 485,224 Voter turnout 57.88 Votes SP S T Hasan 397,720 367,623 RJD Shailesh Kumar Congress Begum Noor Bano Urf Mehtab 19,732 BJP Syed Shahnawaz Hussain 358,138 BSP Haji Mohd Yaqoob 160,945 JD(U) Abu Qaiser 132,256 Peace Party Engineer Mohammad Irfan 25,840 AAP Yogendra Mahto 5,830 AAP Vimal Kumar 4,469 Source: CSDS, Election Commission, media reports