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Kanthi Lok Sabha constituency

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Coordinates:21°47′N87°44′E / 21.78°N 87.74°E /21.78; 87.74

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Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal

Kanthi WB-31
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Kanthi Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
Assembly constituencies	Chandipur Patashpur Kanthi Uttar Bhagabanpur Khejuri Kanthi Dakshin Ramnagar
Established	1951
Total electors	17,94,537^[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Soumendu Adhikari
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2024

Kanthi Lok Sabha constituency (earlier known asContai Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 543parliamentary constituencies inIndia. The constituency centres onContai inWest Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 31 Kanthi Lok Sabha constituency are inPurba Medinipur district. As per census 2011 Hindus form 89.7% of electors rest by Muslims, Sikhs and others.

Assembly segments

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**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 the order of theDelimitation Commission issued in 2006 in respect of thedelimitation of constituencies in West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 31 Kanthi is composed of the following segments:^[2]

No	Name	District	Member
211	Chandipur	Purba Medinipur	Soham Chakraborty	Trinamool Congress	Bharatiya Janata Party
212	Patashpur		Uttam Barik	Trinamool Congress	Trinamool Congress
213	Kanthi Uttar		Sumita Sinha	Bharatiya Janata Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
214	Bhagabanpur		Rabindranath Maity
215	Khejuri		Santanu Pramanik
216	Kanthi Dakshin		Arup Kumar Das
217	Ramnagar		Akhil Giri	Trinamool Congress

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) andMugberia (assembly constituency no. 214)

Members of Parliament

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Year	Name
1952	Basanta Kumar Das	Indian National Congress^[4]
1957	Pramatha Nath Bandopadhyay	Praja Socialist Party^[5]
1962	Basanta Kumar Das	Indian National Congress^[6]
1967	Samar Guha	Praja Socialist Party^[7]
1971		Praja Socialist Party^[7]
1977		Janata Party
1980	Sudhir Kumar Giri	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[8]
1984	Phulrenu Guha	Indian National Congress^[9]
1989	Sudhir Kumar Giri	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[10]
1991
1996
1998
1999	Nitish Sengupta	Trinamool Congress^[11]
2004	Prasanta Pradhan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[12]
2009	Sisir Kumar Adhikari	Trinamool Congress^[13]
2014
2019
2024	Soumendu Adhikari	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

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General election 2024

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2024 Indian general elections: Kanthi^[14]^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Soumendu Adhikari	763,195	49.85	7.71
	AITC	Uttam Barik	7,15,431	46.73	3.25
	INC	Urbashi Banerjee	31,122	2.03	0.85
	NOTA	None of the above	8,134	0.53	0.08
Majority			47,764	3.12	4.72
Turnout			15,30,997	85.31	0.52
	BJPgain fromAITC		Swing

General election 2019

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2019 Indian general elections:Kanthi
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sisir Kumar Adhikari	711,872	49.98	−3.82
	BJP	Dr. Debasish Samanta	600,204	42.14	+33.54
	CPI(M)	Paritosh Pattyanayak	76,185	5.35	−29.37
	INC	Dipak Kumar Das	16,851	1.18	−0.92
Majority			111,668	7.84	−10.24
Turnout			1,424,966	85.83	−0.78
	AITChold		Swing

General election 2014

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2014 Indian general elections:Kanthi^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sisir Kumar Adhikari	6,76,749	52.80	−1.54
	CPI(M)	Tapas Sinha	4,48,259	34.72	−7.75
	BJP	Kamalendu Pahari	1,11,082	8.60	+5.76
	INC	Kunal Banerjee	27,230	2.10
	BSP	Ansar Ali Sk	8,298
	SUCI(C)	Manas Pradhan	7,335
	Independent	Sk Golam Nabi Ajad	3,260
Majority			2,28,490	18.08
Turnout			12,90,811	86.61
	AITChold		Swing

General election 2009

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2009 Indian general elections:Kanthi^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AITC	Sisir Kumar Adhikari	6,06,712	53.95
	CPI(M)	Prasanta Pradhan	4,77,609	42.47
	BJP	Amalesh Mishra	31,952	2.84
	BSP	Rashbehari Patra	8,174
Majority			1,29,103	12.48
Turnout			11,24,454	89.97
	AITCgain fromCPI(M)		Swing

General election 2004

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General Election, 2004:Contai^[12]
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 fromAITC		Swing

General elections 1951-2004

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

Year	Winner		Runner-up
Year	Candidate	Party	Candidate	Party
1951	Basanta Kumar Das	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)^[17]
1977	Samar Guha	Janata Party	Sudhangshu Panda	Indian National Congress^[18]
1980	Sudhir Kumar Giri	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Pradip Sarkar	Indian National Congress^[8]
1984	Phulrenu Guha	Indian National Congress	Sudhir Kumar Giri	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[9]
1989	Sudhir Kumar Giri	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Abha Maiti	Indian National Congress^[10]
1991	Sudhir Kumar Giri	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Abha Maiti	Indian National Congress^[19]
1996	Sudhir Kumar Giri	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Nitish Sengupta	Indian National Congress^[20]
1998	Sudhir Kumar Giri	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Akhil Giri	Trinamool Congress^[21]
1999	Nitish Sengupta	All India Trinamool Congress	Sudhir Kumar Giri	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[11]
2004	Prasanta Pradhan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Nitish Sengupta	All India Trinamool Congress^[12]

References

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^"Statistical Report on General Elections, 2004 to the 14th Lok Sabha"(PDF).Volume III Details For Assembly Segments Of Parliamentary Constituencies. ECI. Retrieved1 October 2010.
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^"2024 Loksabha Elections Results - Kanthi". Election Commission of India. 4 June 2024. Archived fromthe original on 21 July 2025. Retrieved21 July 2025.
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^"General Elections, 1998 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results"(PDF).West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 18 July 2014. Retrieved2 June 2014.

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v t e Lok Sabha constituencies ofWest Bengal
Current	Cooch Behar Alipurduars Jalpaiguri Darjeeling Raiganj Balurghat Maldaha Uttar Maldaha Dakshin Jangipur Baharampur Murshidabad Krishnanagar Ranaghat Bangaon Barrackpore Dum Dum Barasat Basirhat Jaynagar Mathurapur Diamond Harbour Jadavpur Kolkata Dakshin Kolkata Uttar Howrah Uluberia Serampore Hooghly Arambagh Tamluk Kanthi Ghatal Jhargram Medinipur Purulia Bankura Bishnupur Bardhaman Purba Bardhaman–Durgapur Asansol Bolpur Birbhum
Defunct	Burdwan Calcutta East Calcutta North East Calcutta North West Calcutta South East Durgapur Katwa Malda Nabadwip Panskura

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Tamluk subdivision	Nandakumar Moyna Tamluk Sahid Matangini Panskura Kolaghat Chandipur
Haldia subdivision	Mahisadal Nandigram I Nandigram II Sutahata Haldia
Egra subdivision	Bhagabanpur I Egra I Egra II Patashpur I Patashpur II
Contai subdivision	Bhagabanpur II Contai I Deshapran Contai III Khejuri I Khejuri II Ramnagar I Ramnagar II

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