- Kanthi (Lok Sabha constituency)
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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.
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Election results
General Election, 2009: Kanthi [1] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Trinamool Congress Sisir Kumar Adhikari 606,712 CPI(M) Prasanta Pradhan 477,609 BJP Amalesh Mishra 31,952 BSP Rashbehari Patra 8,174 Turnout 1,124,447 Results of elections held prior to 2009 are summarised below:
Year Winner Runner-up Candidate Party Candidate Party 1977[2] Samar Guha Bharatiya Lok Dal Sudhangshu Panda Indian National Congress 1980 Sudhir Kumar Giri Communist Party of India (Marxist) Pradip Sarkar Indian National Congress (I) 1984 Phulrenu Guha Indian National Congress Sudhir Kumar Giri Communist Party of India (Marxist) 1989 Sudhir Kumar Giri Communist Party of India (Marxist) Abha Maiti Indian National Congress 1991 Sudhir Kumar Giri Communist Party of India (Marxist) Abha Maiti Indian National Congress 1996 Sudhir Kumar Giri Communist Party of India (Marxist) Nitish Sengupta Indian National Congress 1998 Sudhir Kumar Giri Communist Party of India (Marxist) Akhil Giri Trinamool Congress 1999 Nitish Sengupta All India Trinamool Congress Sudhir Kumar Giri Communist Party of India (Marxist) 2004 Prasanta Pradhan Communist Party of India (Marxist) Nitish Sengupta All India Trinamool Congress Fifteenth Lok Sabha
Seats won by different fronts and parties in the fiteenth Lok Sabha, formed after the Indian general election, 2009, were as follows:[3]
Front Party Seats won UPA Congress 206 Trinamool Congress 19 DMK 18 NCP 9 National Conference 3 JMM 2 Others 5 Total 262 NDA BJP 116 JD(U) 20 Shiv Sena 11 Akali Dal 4 AGP 1 RLD 5 Total 157 Third Front Left Front 22 BSP 21 JD(S) 3 AIADMK 9 TDP 6 TRS 2 BJD 14 Others 3 Total 80 Fourth Front SP 27 RJD 4 Total 27 Seats won by different political parties from West Bengal in the fifteenth Lok Sabha were as follows: [4]
Party Seats Trinamool Congress 19 Congress 6 SUCI 1 CPI(M) 9 CPI 2 RSP 2 Forward Bloc 2 BJP 1 Assembly segments
Prior to delimitation, Contai Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:[5]
- 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)
- Mugberia (assembly constituency no. 214)
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:[6]
- 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)
References
- ^ "General Election 2009 Kanthi". West Bengal Election Results. Ibnlive. http://ibnlive.in.com/politics/electionresults/constituency/25/25/kanthi.html. Retrieved 2009-05-25.
- ^ "31 – Contai Parliamentary Constituency, West Bengal". Partywise Comparison since 1977. Election Commission of India. http://www.eci.nic.in/eci_main/electionanalysis/GE/PartyCompWinner/S25/partycomp31.htm. Retrieved 2010-10-01.
- ^ "General Election 2009 Results". Indian Elections. http://www.indian-elections.com/. Retrieved 2009-06-20.
- ^ "General Election 2009 Results". Statewise results. Indian Elections. http://www.indian-elections.com/statewise-results.html. Retrieved 2009-06-20.
- ^ "Statistical Report on General Elections, 2004 to the 14th Lok Sabha". Volume III Details For Assembly Segments Of Parliamentary Constituencies. Election Commission of India. http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/LS_2004/Vol_III_LS_2004.pdf. Retrieved 2010-10-01.
- ^ "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18". Table B – Extent of Parliamentary Constituencies. Government of West Bengal. http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/news_pdf/gazette123.pdf. Retrieved 2009-05-27.
See also
Purba Medinipur district topics General Subdivisions Territories Locations
other than cities and townsMunicipalities Community development blocks Tamluk subdivision Nandakumar • Moyna • Tamluk • Sahid Matangini • Panskura I • Panskura II • Chandipur Haldia subdivision Mahisadal • Nandigram I • Nandigram II • Sutahata • Haldia Egra subdivision Bhagabanpur I • Bhagabanpur II • Egra I • Egra II • Patashpur I • Patashpur II Contai subdivision Contai I • Contai II • Contai III • Khejuri I • Khejuri II • Ramnagar I • Ramnagar IIRivers Transport Lok Sabha constituencies Kanthi (Contai) • Tamluk • Panskura - now defunctVidhan Sabha constituencies Tamluk • Panskura Purba • Panskura Paschim • Moyna • Nandakumar • Mahisadal • Haldia • Nandigram • Chandipur • Patashpur • Kanthi Uttar • Bhagabanpur • Khejuri • Kanthi Dakshin • Ramnagar • EgraFormer Vidhan Sabha constituencies See also Cities and towns in Purba Medinipur district • People from Purba Medinipur district • Villages in Purba Medinipur district • Damodar ValleyOther districts in West Bengal Bankura • Bardhaman • Birbhum • Cooch Behar • Dakshin Dinajpur • Darjeeling • Hooghly · Howrah • Jalpaiguri • Kolkata • Malda • Murshidabad · Nadia • North 24 Parganas • Paschim Medinipur • Purulia • South 24 Parganas • Uttar DinajpurSurrounding areas outside West Bengal Categories:- Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal
- Politics in Purba Medinipur district
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