The population of Muslims in Delhi is 12 percent and it’s interesting to note that the community will have a 5.8 percent representation in the yet-to-be-constituted Delhi Legislative Assembly.

The four Muslims who were elected to the 70-member Assembly in the just-concluded Delhi elections are from the Aam Admi Party (AAP), which faced a big defeat at the hands of the BJP.

So, in terms of Muslims occupying the opposition benches in the 70-member  Delhi Assembly, the representation has touched an impressive 18 percent.

Four Muslim candidates who have made it in the elections are: Imran Hussain from Ballimaran, and Aalley Mohammad Iqbal from Matiamahal, All the elected MLAs have won against their BJP rivals from the Muslim-majority areas and with convincing margins.

Imran Hussain a sitting MLA from Ballimaran defeated his closest rival Aman Bagri of the BJP by 29823 votes.

Aalley Mohammad Iqbal won from Matiamahal by defeating Deepti Indora of BJP with a margin of 42724 votes.

Aaley Mohammad Iqbal and Chaudhary Zubair Ahmed

Amanatullah Khan won from Okhla by defeating BJP’s Manish Choudhary by 23,639 votes.

Chaudhary Zubair Ahmed won from Seelampur by defeating Anil Kumar Sharma Gaur by 42,477 votes.

For the APP, the result of the Muslim-dominated constituencies where it has fielded non-Muslim candidates like Badarpur, and Chandni Chowk was comforting. The only seat the party lost among these was the Mustafabad in northeast Delhi where BJP candidate Mohan Singh Bisht won defeating the AAP candidate Adil Ahmed Khan by 17578 votes.

Interestingly, AIMIM's Tahir Hussain, accused in the 2020 Delhi riots who is out on bail, was the second runner-up.

AAP candidate Pandardeep Singh has won the Chandni Chowk Assembly seat by 16572 votes. Here BJP's Satish Jain came second and Congress's Madhesh Agarwal came third.

Aam Aadmi Party's Gopal Rai defeated BJP's Anil Kumar Vashishth by a margin of 18994 votes from Badarpur.

Aaley Mohammad Iqbal, 34, has recorded the highest margin of victory- 42,724 votes — in the election. He secured 58,120 votes.

In his victory, Aaley has thus maintained his family’s hold over Matia Mahal. His father Shoaib Iqbal, the outgoing MLA from the seat, has won from the constituency six times, beginning in 1993. Shoaib had previously been part of the JD, JD(S), LJP, JD(U), and Congress, ensuring electoral win for every party he contested from.

Amanullah Khan, 50, a two-time legislator from Okhla was a prominent Muslim face for the Arvind Kejriwal-led government.

Amanatullah Khan won from the Okhla constituency in a triangular contest as the presence of AIMIM candidate Shifa Ur Rehman Khan posed a challenge to him. However, the career politician not only won but the AIMIM candidate fared a poor third.

Khan joined the AAP in 2015 and was elected from the Okhla seat. He is elected head of the Waqf board and also gained prominence during the 2019-20 protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Shaheen Bagh.

Although AAP distanced itself from the protests, Khan participated in demonstrations.

Last year, he was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case involving the alleged purchase of Rs 36 crore land in Okhla. However, a Delhi court rejected the charges and granted him bail, raising questions about approvals.

Imran Hussain, who hails from a business family from Walled City, has held the position of Minister of Food and Civil Supplies and Elections in the AAP government led by Arvind Kejriwal and later by Atishi.

He has been associated with the AAP since 2015.

In the 2025 Delhi Assembly elections, Ballimaran witnessed a voter turnout of 63.87%.

Chaudhary Zubair Ahmed, 44 also hails from a political family. His father Choudhary Mateen Ahmed was a five-time Congress MLA from Seelampur from 1993 to 2015.

Mateen left Congress to join the AAP just before the 2025 election and the party fielded his son from Seelampur.

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Seelampur Assembly seat is a Muslim majority seat in the North East Delhi Lok Sabha constituency, where votes have always elected a Muslim.