Across all 31 state and UT legislative assemblies that hold elections, what share of MLA seats is held by Muslims. Each state pairs two bars: the maroon share of assembly seats against the grey share of population (Census 2011), so each state's seats can be compared at a glance with its share of the population.
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Muslims hold about 6% of seats across the 31 state and UT assemblies covered, each at its most recent election, against a 14.2% share of the population. Jammu & Kashmir leads at 60.0%; 9 assemblies have no Muslim MLA at all. Each row pairs the maroon seat-share bar with a grey bar for the state's Muslim population share (Census 2011; the J&K figure includes pre-2019 Ladakh, and Telangana's aggregates the ten undivided-AP districts that formed the state in 2014).
| Assembly | Election | Muslim MLAs | Seat share | Population share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jammu & Kashmir | 2024 | 54 of 90 | 68.3% | |
| Kerala | 2026 | 35 of 140 | 26.6% | |
| Assam | 2021 | 31 of 126 | 34.2% | |
| West Bengal | 2026 | 40 of 293 | 27.0% | |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2022 | 34 of 403 | 19.3% | |
| Bihar | 2020 | 19 of 243 | 16.9% | |
| Telangana | 2023 | 7 of 119 | 12.7% | |
| NCT of Delhi | 2025 | 4 of 70 | 12.9% | |
| Haryana | 2024 | 5 of 90 | 7.0% | |
| Uttarakhand | 2022 | 3 of 70 | 13.9% | |
| Karnataka | 2023 | 9 of 224 | 12.9% | |
| Jharkhand | 2024 | 3 of 81 | 14.5% | |
| Maharashtra | 2024 | 10 of 288 | 11.5% | |
| Puducherry | 2021 | 1 of 30 | 6.1% | |
| Rajasthan | 2023 | 6 of 200 | 9.1% | |
| Tamil Nadu | 2021 | 5 of 234 | 5.9% | |
| Andhra Pradesh | 2024 | 3 of 175 | 9.6% | |
| Manipur | 2022 | 1 of 60 | 8.4% | |
| Gujarat | 2022 | 3 of 182 | 9.7% | |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2023 | 2 of 230 | 6.6% | |
| Punjab | 2022 | 1 of 117 | 1.9% | |
| Odisha | 2024 | 1 of 147 | 2.2% | |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 2024 | 0 of 60 | 2.0% | |
| Sikkim | 2024 | 0 of 32 | 1.6% | |
| Chhattisgarh | 2023 | 0 of 90 | 2.0% | |
| Tripura | 2023 | 0 of 60 | 8.6% | |
| Meghalaya | 2023 | 0 of 60 | 4.4% | |
| Nagaland | 2023 | 0 of 60 | 2.5% | |
| Mizoram | 2023 | 0 of 40 | 1.4% | |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2022 | 0 of 68 | 2.2% | |
| Goa | 2022 | 0 of 40 | 8.3% |
Hand-compiled Reproduce this view. These counts are hand-compiled from election-wise ECI candidate affidavits and cross-checked across multiple journalistic sources, since no single official source tabulates members by religion. Source: PRS / ECI affidavits. Each value is computed from the data file · transform code; every row records its own source and method.
Muslims hold about 6% of seats across India's state legislative assemblies, against a 14.2% population share. The shortfall is narrower than in the Lok Sabha but still wide, and it varies sharply from state to state, which the By assembly tab lays out.
The chart shows the Muslim share of seats in each state and union-territory assembly at its most recent election, with a national aggregate of about 6%. The By assembly tab ranks the states and pairs each one's seat share against its Muslim population share, so you can see where representation tracks numbers and where it falls far short.
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