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. As per census 2011 Hindus form 89.7% of electors rest by Muslims, Sikhs and others.

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:

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District	Party	MLA
211	Chandipur	None	Purba Medinipur	TMC	Soham Chakraborty
212	Patashpur	None	Purba Medinipur	TMC	Uttam Barik
213	Kanthi Uttar	None	Purba Medinipur	BJP	Sumita Sinha
214	Bhagabanpur	None	Purba Medinipur	BJP	Rabindranath Maity
215	Khejuri	SC	Purba Medinipur	BJP	Santanu Pramanik
216	Kanthi Dakshin	None	Purba Medinipur	BJP	Arup Kumar Das
217	Ramnagar	None	Purba Medinipur	TMC	Akhil Giri

Prior to delimitation, Contai Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments: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

Year	Constituency	Name	Party
1952	Kanthi	Basanta Kumar Das		Indian National Congress
1957		Pramatha Nath Bandopadhyay		Praja Socialist Party
1962		Basanta Kumar Das		Indian National Congress
1967		Samar Guha		Praja Socialist Party
1971
1977				Janata Party
1980		Sudhir Kumar Giri		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1984		Phulrenu Guha		Indian National Congress
1989		Sudhir Kumar Giri		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1991
1996
1998
1999		Nitish Sengupta		Trinamool Congress
2004		Prasanta Pradhan		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2009		Sisir Kumar Adhikari		Trinamool Congress
2014
2019
2024		Soumendu Adhikari		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

General election 2024

2024 Indian general elections: Kanthi

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
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

General election 2019

2019 Indian general elections: Kanthi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sisir 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
	AITC hold		Swing

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Kanthi

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
	AITC hold		Swing

General election 2009

2009 Indian general elections: Kanthi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sisir Kumar Adhikari	6,06,712	54.95
	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
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

General election 2004

General Election, 2004: Contai

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 Das	Indian National Congress	Promatha Nath Bandopadhyay	Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party
1957	Pramatha Nath Bandopadhyay	Praja Socialist Party	Basanta Kumar Das	Indian National Congress
1962	Basanta Kumar Das	Indian National Congress	Prafulla Chandra Ghosh	Praja Socialist Party
1967	Samar Guha	Praja Socialist Party	R. Pal	Indian National Congress
1971	Samar Guha	Praja Socialist Party	Abha Maiti	Indian National Congress (Organisation)
1977	Samar Guha	Janata Party	Sudhangshu Panda	Indian National Congress
1980	Sudhir Kumar Giri	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Pradip Sarkar	Indian National Congress
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

See also

• Contai
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha