Abdul Wahid Owaisi - Revived AIMIM in 1958

In 1960, AIMIM won the Mallepally ward of Hyderabad Municipal Corporation. In 1962, Salahuddin won from Patharghatti assembly seat as an Independent candidate and later from Charminar constituency in 1967. In 1972, he won from Yakutpura and later in 1978, again from Charminar.^{[citation needed]}

In 1984 AIMIM emerged victorious in the Hyderabad Lok Sabha Seat and Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi represented Hyderabad till 2004. Since then, Salahuddin's elder son Asaduddin Owaisi represents the seat of Hyderabad.^[16][17][18]Mohammad Majid Hussain of the AIMIM was unanimously elected as the Mayor of Greater Hyderabad on January 2, 2012.^[19]

AIMIM was once reduced to 1 Assembly seat in Andhra Pradesh in 1994.^[20] On 12 November 2012, Asaduddin Owaisiannounced the withdrawal of support to the UPA government citing communal policies of the current congress led government.^[21][22] All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen was then supporting Congress, both at Centre and at state level in Andhra Pradesh.^[23][24][25]

In the Hyderabad Municipality election of 2009 AIMIM won 43 out of 150 seats in the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad^[26] and appointed the current Mayor of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Mohammad Majid Hussain.^[27] Party president Asaduddin Owaisi won Sansad Ratna award for his outstanding performance in lok Sabha.^[28]

AIMIM made its entry into Maharashtra state by winning 13 seats in Nanded-Waghala city municipal council polls held on October 2012.^[29] AIMIM made its entry into Karnataka state by winning 6 seats in Karnataka local body elections held in March 2013.^[30] In 2014 Elections,AIMIM contested on 35 MLA(20 in Telangana and 15 in Seemandhra) and 6 MP seats in undivided Andhra Pradesh,but was not able to win any extra seat and won same 7 Assembly seats and 1 lone Lok Sabha seat of Old Hyderabad city.^[31]

In 2014 elections,in its efforts to win a majority of divisions in the Nizamabad comprising a sizeable Muslim population and also the urban Assembly seat, the MIM this time focused its attention on the constituency giving it the second priority after state capital Hyderabad.^[32] MIM won 16 divisions, as much as the Congress, of the total 50 in Nizamabad city Municipal Corporation.^[33] However to their hard luck they lost the assembly seat to TRS.^[34] Later on MIM made an alliance with TRS for sharing posts in Nizamabad.MIM also secured the Bhainsa municipality by winning 12 wards after a gap of 10 years.^[35] The party has for the first time opened its account in Seemandhra by securing five wards of Adoni municipality in Kurnool district.^[33]