As Maharashtra breaks record in polling, almost all seats with high Muslim numbers lag behind

Overall, Maharashtra saw polling of 66.05% — a emergence of 4.95 percent points compared to 2019 and the highest since 1995.

Of the 19 constituencies wherever Muslims are successful ample numbers and wherever the turnout was beneath the authorities average, 16 saw a flimsy turnout summation successful presumption of percent points from past time, but inactive lagged down the authorities average.

Aurangabad Central and Anushakti Nagar adjacent recorded a diminution from past time, by 0.35 and 1.23 percent points respectively. Aurangabad Central, wherever Muslims marque up 38.5% of the population, saw 59.35% polling. Here, sitting Shiv Sena MLA Pradeep Jaiswal is taking connected the AIMIM and Sena (UBT). In Anushakti Nagar, wherever the Muslim colonisation is 28.8% and which saw a elector turnout of 54.04%, the NCP’s Sana Malik (the girl of Nawab Malik, the sitting MLA) is taking connected the NCP (SP)’s Fahad Ahmad.

The lowest polling among seats with a precocious Muslim colonisation was successful Mumbadevi (48.76%), though it saw a surge of 4.75 percent points from past time. Here, BJP person Shaina N C is the Shiv Sena candidate, portion from the INDIA bloc side, the Congress’s Amin Patel is contesting.

The seats with precocious Muslim colonisation wherever polling was beneath authorities mean see Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar, which saw 52.14% voting, Bhiwandi East 51.4%, Bhiwandi West 54.39%, Amravati 56.51%, Mumbra Kalwa 52.15%, Akola West 57.97%, Byculla 53.02%, Aurangabad Central 59.35%, Aurangabad West 60.58%, Versova 51.44%, Dharavi 50.03%, Vandre East 54.65%, Kurla 53.15%, Anushakti Nagar 54.04%, Malad West 54.89%, Chandivali 52.92%, Andheri West 53.67%, and Vandre West 51.36%.

Of the 4 seats wherever Muslims are a important colonisation and which witnessed the highest increases successful elector turnout, 3 person sitting NDA MLAs. These see Andheri West (+10.15 percent points) wherever the sitting BJP MLA Ameet Satam is taking connected the Congress’s Ashok Jadhav; Versova (+9.06 percent points), wherever sitting BJP MLA Bharti Lavekar is taking connected the Shiv Sena (UBT)’s Haroon Khan; Kurla reserved spot (+8.23), wherever sitting Shiv Sena MLA Mangesh Kudalkar is facing disconnected against the Sena (UBT)’s Pravina Morajkar; and Akola West (+6.96 percent points), wherever the BJP’s Vijay Agarwal is facing the Congress’s Sajid Khan .

The different seats wherever polling went up, but stayed beneath the authorities average, are Malegaon Central, Bhiwandi East, Mumbadevi, Bhiwandi West, Mumbra Kalwa, Byculla, Aurangabad West, Dharavi, Vandre East, Malad West, Chandivali, Akot, Vandre West and Parbhani.

In the last agelong of campaigning, the BJP’s claims of “vote jihad” got a further propulsion erstwhile Maulana Khalil-ur-Rahman Sajjad Nomani, a salient Islamic scholar, issued a database urging Muslim voters to enactment candidates of the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi alliance, for “a secular and inclusive government”.