Kanthi (Lok Sabha constituency)

Kanthi (Lok Sabha constituency)
Existence	1951-present
Reservation	None
Current MP	Sisir Kumar Adhikari
Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected Year	2014
State	West Bengal
Total Electors	1,490,409^[1]
Assembly Constituencies	Chandipur Patashpur Kanthi Uttar Bhagabanpur Khejuri (SC) Kanthi Dakshin Ramnagar

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.

Assembly segments

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-incumbent		Sisir Kumar Adhikari	All India Trinamool Congress^[19]

Election results

General election 2014

Indian general elections, 2014: Kanthi^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITMC	Sisir Kumar Adhikari	676749
	CPI(M)	Tapas Sinha	447259
	BJP	Kamalendu Pahari	111082
	INC	Kunal Banerjee	27230
	BSP	Ansar Ali Sk	8298
	SUCI(C)	Manas Pradhan	7335
	Independent	Sk Golam Nabi Ajad	3260
Turnout			1,290,811^[1]	86.61
	AITMC hold		Swing

Indian general election, 2014
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: Party-wise trends in General Election to the Lok Sabha 2014
List of successful candidates in General Elections 2009 to the 15th Lok Sabha

General election 2009

General Election, 2009: Kanthi^[18]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITMC	Sisir Kumar Adhikari	606,712
	CPI(M)	Prasanta Pradhan	477,609
	BJP	Amalesh Mishra	31,952
	BSP	Rashbehari Patra	8,174
Turnout			1,124,454	89.97
	AITMC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

Indian general election, 2004
West Bengal summary
Party	Seats won	Seat change	Vote percentage
Trinamool Congress	1	7	31.8
Indian National Congress	6	0	13.45
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)	0	1	NA
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	26	3	33.1
Communist Party of India	3	0	3.6
Revolutionary Socialist Party	3	0	3.56
Forward bloc	3	1	3.04
Bharatiya Janata Party	0	0	6.14

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]

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