Uttar Pradesh : 34 Muslim candidates of SP alliance won the election

UP Election Results 2022: The alliance of Samajwadi Party, RLD and Subhaspa failed to come to power in the UP assembly elections. But 34 Muslim candidates of the alliance registered victory. In the BJP alliance, Apna Dal had given ticket to a Muslim candidate, which is about one-third of its total MLAs. SP alliance had fielded 63 and BSP had fielded 86 Muslim candidates. Congress had also given Muslim candidates in about 60 seats. Most of the Muslim candidates of the SP alliance got success in the first two phases of UP. These include the victory of Nahid Hasan from Kairana, Azam Khan from Rampur, Abdullah Azam from Swar. Ashraf Ali defeated Suresh Rana, who was a minister in the Yogi government from Thana Bhavan. However, despite having Muslim candidates in all the seats and 30-40 per cent of the votes of Muslims on others, the coalition candidates could not register victory due to not being made a candidate of that community. It is also believed that in many seats there was a split in the votes due to the Muslim candidates of the BSP.

In which seats the Muslim vote is decisive

The Muslim population in Uttar Pradesh is about 19 percent. There were 85 seats in UP, in which the population of Muslims ranged from 25 to 50 percent. Whereas in 60 other seats, their population was between 20 and 25 percent. That is, there were 145 seats where Muslim candidates were in a position to play a decisive role. However, the BJP had won most of these seats last time due to the division of minority votes. In Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Moradabad, Bareilly, Bahraich, Saharanpur, Rampur, Bijnor, Balrampur, Shravasti, Ghaziabad, Baghpat, Gautam Budh Nagar and Jyotiba Phule Nagar, the Muslim population is between 25 and 50 percent. Whereas in Aligarh, Barabanki, Badaun, Bulandshahr, Pilibhit, Lucknow, Lakhimpur Kheri, Sant Kabirnagar, Sultanpur their population is between 20 to 25 percent.

Voted one sided
According to the CSDS, in the year 2017, about 55 percent Muslim votes went in favor of SP, 14 percent BSP, 33 percent Congress and about two percent in favor of BJP. It is interesting that in 2012, the SP came to power in spite of getting only 39 per cent Muslim votes. However, in 2022, about 80 percent of the vote went in favor of the alliance.

Muslim candidates given less than last time
SP and Congress had given 88 Muslim candidates in 2017 under the alliance. Whereas the BSP had given tickets to the maximum 99 Muslims. But out of 85 Muslim majority seats, Hindu candidates won 70 seats and only 15 were won by Muslims. Out of these 85 seats, 64 seats went to BJP and SP got only 16 seats.

Seat-(BJP+Candidate)-(SP+Candidate)- Win/Loss

Kairana – Mriganka Singh (BJP) – Nahid Hasan (SP) – won
Sambhal – Rajesh Singhal (BJP) – Iqbal Mehmood (SP) – Won
Swar – Haider Ali (Apna Dal) – Abdullah Azam (SP) – Won
Rampur – Akash Saxena (BJP) – Azam Khan (SP) – won
Amroha – Ram Singh Saini (BJP) – Mehboob Ali (SP) – Won
Siwalkhas – Manendra Pal Singh (BJP) – Ghulam Mohammad (RLD) – Won
Kithor – Satyaveer Tyagi (BJP) – Shahid Manzoor (SP) – Won
Meerut – Kamal Dutt Sharma (BJP) – Rafiq Ansari (SP) – Won
Thana Bhawan- Suresh Rana (BJP)- Ashraf Ala (SP)- Won
Kundarki – Kamal Prajapati (BJP) – Ziyar Rahman (SP) – won
Behat – Naresh Saini (BJP) – Omar Ali Khan (SP) – Won
Bilari-Parmeshwar Lal Saini-Faheem Irfan(SP)-Jeete
Kinnaur – Satyaveer Tyagi (BJP) – Shahid Manzoor (SP)
Chamrauwa – Mohan Lodhi (BJP) – Naseer Ahmed (SP) – Won
Baheri – Chhatrapal Singh (BJP) – Ataur Rehman (SP) – won
Mau – Ashok Kumar Singh (BJP) – Abbas Ansari (SP +) – won
Bhadohi – Ravindra Tripathi (BJP) – Zahid (SP) – won
Bhojipura – Bhuran Lal (BJP) – Shajil Islam (SP) – won
Gopalpur – Satyendra Rai (BJP) – Nafees Ahmed (SP) – Won
Isauli – OP Pandey (BJP) – Tahir Khan (SP) – won
Jaunpur – Girish Chandra (BJP) – Arshad Khan (SP) – Won
Kanpur Cantt-Raghunandan Singh (BJP)-Md. Hassan (SP) – won
Kanth – Rajesh Kumar (BJP) – Kamal Akhtar (SP) – Won
Lucknow West – Anjani Kumar (BJP) – Armaan Khan (SP) – Won
Mohammadabad – Alka Rai (BJP) – Mannu Ansari – won
Moradabad Rural-KK Mishra(BJP)-Mod. Nasir (SP) – live
Najibabad – Raja Singh (BJP) – Tasleem Ahmed (SP) – Won
Nizamabad – Manoj (BJP) – Alam Badi (SP) – won
Patiali – Mamtesh Shakya (BJP) – Nadira Sultan (SP) – Won
Ramnagar – Sharad Kumar (BJP) – Farid Ahmed – won
Sikanderpur – Sanjay Yadav (BJP) – Ziauddin Rizvi (SP) – Won
Thakurdwara-Ajay Pratap (BJP)-Nawab Jaan (SP)-Jeete
Sisamau – Salil Vishnoi (BJP) – Irfan Solanki (SP) – won
Dumariaganj – Raghavendra Pratap (BJP) – Saeeda Khatoon (SP) – won

Muslim candidates got defeat in these seats

Bikapur – Amit Chauhan (BJP) – Firoz Khan (SP) – Lost
Biswan – Nirmal Verma (BJP) – Afzal Kausar (SP) – Lost
Dhampur – Ashok Rana (BJP) – Naeem Ul Hasan (SP) – Lost
Firozabad – Manish Asija (BJP) – Saifur Rahman (SP) – Lost
Mirganj – DC Verma (BJP) Sultan Baig (SP) – Lost
Moradabad Nagar- Ritesh Kumar (BJP-Yusuf Ansari (Loser)
Fafmau – Guru Prasad (BJP) – Ansar Ahmed (SP) – Lost
Phulpur – Praveen Patel (BJP) – Mujtaba (SP) – Lost
Rampur Factory – Surendra Chaurasia (BJP) – Fasiha Manjar (SP) – Lost
Sahabad – Rajni Tiwari (BJP) – Asif Khan (SP) – Lost
Shahjahanpur – Suresh Khanna (BJP) – Tanveer Khan (SP) – Lost
Shravasti-Ram Pheran (BJP)-Mod. Aslam (SP) – Loser
Tiloi-Mayankeshwar (BJP)-Md. Naeem (SP) – Loser
Utraula – Ram Pratap (BJP) – Haseeb Khan (SP) – Lost
Varanasi U. – Ravindra Jaiswal (BJP) – Ashfaq (SP) – Lost
Meerut D.- Somendra Tomar (BJP)-Md. Adil (SP) – Loser
Baghpat – Yogesh Dhama (BJP) – Ahmed Hameed (SP) – Lost
Dhaulana – Dharmesh Tomar (BJP) – Aslam Ali (SP) – Lost
Bulandshahr – Pradeep Choudhary (BJP) – Haji Yunus (RLD) – Lost
Sayana – Devendra Lodhi (BJP) – Dilnawaz Khan (RLD) – Lost

Lost in these Muslim majority seats

Nagina – Yashwant (BJP) – Manoj Paras (SP)
Deoband – Brijesh Singh Rawat – Karthikeya Rana (SP)
Budhana – Umesh Malik (BJP) – Rajpal Balyan (SP)
Hasanpur – Mahendra Singh Saini (BJP) – Chief Gurjar (SP)
Naugaon Sadat-Devendra Nagpal(BJP)-Samarpal(SP)
Asmouli-Harendra Singh (BJP-Pinky Singh (SP))
Milak-Rajpala (BJP)-Vijay Singh (SP)