Sixty-five Muslim candidates are in the fray for the fifth phase of elections in Uttar Pradesh covering 49 Assembly seats in 13 districts to be held on Thursday.

Six Assembly seats have Muslim domination with around 20 per cent voters with one seat of Firozabad having over 20 per cent minority voters.

According to the EC records, Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party have fielded 5 Muslim candidates each in this phase followed by four by Congress, three by Peace Party, five by Rashtriya Ulema Council, 3 by Rashtriya Lokmanch, 5 by Lok Janshakti Party and one each by Pragatisheel Manav Samaj Party, Welfare Party Of India, Janata Dal (United) and All India Trinamool Congress.

Kanpur Cantonment has the highest number of 13 minority candidates followed by 9 in the adjoining Arya Nagar Assembly seat.

Seats having multi-minority candidates include 3 each in Bhognipur, Firozabad and Kalpi followed by 2 each in Maharajpur, Bidhuna, Etah, Hamirpur, Madhaugarh, Jhansi Nagar, Govind Nagar, Amanpur and Kasganj.

Seats having around 20 per cent minority votes are Patiyali, Kalyanpur, Sishamau, Arya Nagar and Kanpur Cantonment.

In the first phase, 26 out of the total 55 seats were Muslim dominated while in the second phase it was 9 out of 59 seats while in the third phase there were 8 seats out of 56. In the fourth phase 8 seats out of the total 56 were muslim dominated.