Kanthi (Lok Sabha constituency)

Kanthi (Lok Sabha constituency) (earlier known as Contai (Lok Sabha constituency)) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Contai in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 31 Kanthi (Lok Sabha constituency) are in Purba Medinipur district.

Kanthi
Lok Sabha Constituency
Incumbent	Sisir Adhikari
Parliamentary Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected Year	2019
Constituency Details
Established	1951-present
Reservation	None
State	West Bengal
Total Electors	1,490,409[1]
Assembly Constituencies	Chandipur Patashpur Kanthi Uttar Bhagabanpur Khejuri (SC) Kanthi Dakshin Ramnagar

Assembly segments

Parliamentary constituencies in West Bengal - 1. Cooch Behar, 2. Alipurduars, 3. Jalpaiguri, 4. Darjeeling, 5. Raiganj, 6. Balurghat, 7. Maldaha Uttar, 8. Maldaha Dakshin, 9. Jangipur, 10. Baharampur, 11. Murshidabad, 12. Krishnanagar, 13. Ranaghat, 14. Bangaon, 15. Barrackpore, 16. Dum Dum, 17. Barasat, 18. Basirhat, 19. Jaynagar, 20. Mathurapur, 21. Diamond Harbour, 22. Jadavpur, 23. Kolkata Dakshin, 24. Kolkata Uttar, 25. Howrah, 26. Uluberia, 27. Serampore, 28. Hooghly, 29. Arambagh, 30. Tamluk, 31, Kanthi, 32. Ghatal, 33. Jhargram, 34. Medinipur, 35. Purulia, 36. Bankura, 37. Bishnupur, 38. Bardhaman Purba, 39. Bardhaman Durgapur, 40. Asansol, 41. Bolpur, 42. Birbhum

As per order of the Delimitation Commission issued in 2006 in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 31 Kanthi is composed of the following segments:[2]

• Chandipur (assembly constituency no. 211)
• Patashpur (assembly constituency no. 212)
• Kanthi Uttar (assembly constituency no. 213)
• Bhagabanpur (assembly constituency no. 214)
• Khejuri (SC) (assembly constituency no. 215)
• Kanthi Dakshin (assembly constituency no. 216)
• Ramnagar (assembly constituency no. 217)

Prior to delimitation, Contai Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:[3]Bhagabanpur (assembly constituency no. 208), Khajuri (SC) (assembly constituency no. 209), Contai North (assembly constituency no. 210), Contai South (assembly constituency no. 211), Ramnagar (assembly constituency no. 212), Egra (assembly constituency no. 213) and Mugberia (assembly constituency no. 214)

Members of Parliament

Lok Sabha	Duration	Constituency	Name of M.P.	Party Affiliation
First	1952-57	Contai	Basanta Kumar Das	Indian National Congress[4]
Second	1957-62		Pramatha Nath Bandopadhyay	Praja Socialist Party[5]
Third	1962-67		Basanta Kumar Das	Indian National Congress[6]
Fourth	1967-71		Samar Guha	Praja Socialst Party[7]
Fifth	1971-77		Samar Guha	Praja Socialist Party[8]
Sixth	1977-80		Samar Guha	Bharatiya Lok Dal[9]
Seventh	1980-84		Sudhir Kumar Giri	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10]
Eighth	1984-89		Phulrenu Guha	Indian National Congress[11]
Ninth	1989-91		Sudhir Kumar Giri	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
Tenth	1991-96		Sudhir Kumar Giri	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[13]
Eleventh	1996-98		Sudhir Kumar Giri	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14]
Twelfth	1998-99		Sudhir Kumar Giri	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[15]
Thirteenth	1999-04		Nitish Sengupta	All India Trinamool Congress[16]
Fourteenth	2004-09		Prasanta Pradhan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[17]
Fifteenth	2009-14	Kanthi	Sisir Kumar Adhikari	All India Trinamool Congress[18]
Sixteenth	2014-2019		Sisir Kumar Adhikari	All India Trinamool Congress[19]
Seventeenth	2019- Incumbent		Sisir Kumar Adhikari	All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

General election 2019

2019 Indian general elections: Kanthi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	AITC	Sisir Kumar Adhikari	7,11,872	49.98	-3.82
	BJP	Dr. Debasish Samanta	6,30,204	42.14	+33.54
	CPI (M)	Paritosh Pattyanayak	76,185	5.35%	-29.37
	INC	Dipak Kumar Das	16,851	1.18%
Majority			1,11,668
Turnout			14,24,966	85.83
	AITC hold		Swing

 2019 Indian general election
West Bengal summary

Party	Seats won	Seat change	Vote percentage	Vote change %
Trinamool Congress	22	12	43.00	4
Bharatiya Janata Party	18	16	40.00	23
Indian National Congress	2	2	6.29	4
Left Front	0	2	7.57	24

Source: Election Results 2019 Note: The vote share may change marginally once the final data is released by Election Commission.

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Kanthi [19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	AITC	Sisir Kumar Adhikari	6,76,749	52.80	-1.54
	CPI (M)	Tapas Sinha	4,48,259	34.72
	BJP	Kamalendu Pahari	1,11,082	8.60
	INC	Kunal Banerjee	27,230
	BSP	Ansar Ali Sk	8,298
	SUCI(C)	Manas Pradhan	7,335
	Independent	Sk Golam Nabi Ajad	3,260
Majority
Turnout			12,90,811	86.61
	AITC hold		Swing

 2014 Indian general election
West Bengal summary

Party	Seats won	Seat change	Vote percentage
Trinamool Congress	34	15	39.3
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	2	7	22.7
Communist Party of India	0	2	2.3
Revolutionary Socialist Party	0	2	2.4
Forward Bloc	0	2	2.1
Indian National Congress	4	2	9.6
Bharatiya Janata Party	2	1	16.8
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)	0	1	0.7

Source: General Election to the Lok Sabha 2014 - State wise seats won & valid votes polled by political parties
General Elections 2009 to the 15th Lok Sabha - Party wise seats won and votes polled

General election 2009

2009 Indian general elections: Kanthi [18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	AITC	Sisir Kumar Adhikari	6,06,712	54.95
	CPI (M)	Prasanta Pradhan	4,77,609
	BJP	Amalesh Mishra	31,952
	BSP	Rashbehari Patra	8,174
Majority
Turnout			11,24,454	89.97
	AITC gain from CPI (M)		Swing

General election 2004

General Election, 2004: Contai[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	CPI (M)	Prasanta Pradhan	464,743	50.04
	AITC	Dr Nitish Sengupta	405,553	44.00
	INC	Kshitindra Mohan Sahoo	26,010	2.8
	Independent	Jiban Das	11,707	1.30
	Independent	Adhar Chandra Nahal	9,676	1.0
	BSP	Asalata Majumdar	9,085	1.0
Turnout			9,21,634	85.3
	CPI (M) gain from AITC		Swing

General elections 1951-2004

Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:

Year	Winner		Runner-up
	Candidate	Party	Candidate	Party
1951	Basanta Kumar Dass	Indian National Congress	Promatha Nath Bandopadhyay	Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party[4]
1957	Pramatha Nath Bandopadhyay	Praja Socialist Party	Basanta Kumar Das	Indian National Congress[5]
1962	Basanta Kumar Das	Indian National Congress	Prafulla Chandra Ghosh	Praja Socialist Party[6]
1967	Samar Guha	Praja Socialist Party	R. Pal	Indian National Congress[7]
1971	Samar Guha	Praja Socialist Party	Abha Maiti	Indian National Congress (Organisation)[8]
1977	Samar Guha	Bharatiya Lok Dal	Sudhangshu Panda	Indian National Congress[9]
1980	Sudhir Kumar Giri	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Pradip Sarkar	Indian National Congress[10]
1984	Phulrenu Guha	Indian National Congress	Sudhir Kumar Giri	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]
1989	Sudhir Kumar Giri	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Abha Maiti	Indian National Congress[12]
1991	Sudhir Kumar Giri	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Abha Maiti	Indian National Congress[13]
1996	Sudhir Kumar Giri	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Nitish Sengupta	Indian National Congress[14]
1998	Sudhir Kumar Giri	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Akhil Giri	Trinamool Congress[15]
1999	Nitish Sengupta	All India Trinamool Congress	Sudhir Kumar Giri	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[16]
2004	Prasanta Pradhan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Nitish Sengupta	All India Trinamool Congress[17]

See also

• Contai
• List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha

References

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19. "General Elections 2014 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 19 June 2016.

External links

• Kanthi lok sabha constituency election 2019 result details