Kanthi Uttar Assembly constituency

Kanthi Uttar Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Purba Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Kanthi Uttar
Constituency No. 213 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Kanthi Uttar Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Medinipur
Lok Sabha constituency	Kanthi
Established	1951
Total electors	2,57,427
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Sumita Sinha
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 213 Kanthi Uttar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Deshapran CD Block, Brajachauli, Debendra, Kanaidighi, Kumirda, Lauda and Marishda gram panchayats of Contai III and Bathuari gram panchayat of Egra II community development block.^[1]

Kanthi Uttar Assembly constituency is part of No. 31 Kanthi (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
2011	Kanthi Uttar	Banasri Maity	AITC
2016		Banasri Maity	AITC
2021		Sumita Sinha	BJP

Election results

2021

West Bengal Legislative Assembly Election, 2021: Kanthi Uttar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Sumita Sinha	113,524	50.00
	AITC	Tarun Kumar Jana	1,04,194	46.00
	CPI(M)	Sutanu Maity	6504	3.00
	NOTA	None of the above	1492	1.00
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

2016

West Bengal Legislative Assembly Election, 2016: Kanthi Uttar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Banasri Maity	10,378
	CPI(M)	Chakradhar Maikap	85207
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority			18576
Turnout
Registered electors
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Kanthi Uttar^[2][3][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Banasri Maity	91,528	49.78	−0.55#
	CPI(M)	Chakradhar Meikap	83,573	45.45	−2.85#
	BJP	Gour Hari Jana	5,859	3.19
	JD(U)	Bhaskar Mahakur	1,518
	Independent	Biswajit Choudhury	1,400
Turnout			183,878	91.04
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	2.30#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections, Chakradhar Maikap of CPI(M) won the Contai North assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Jyotirmoy Kar of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Jyotirmoy Kar of Trinamool Congress defeated Chakradhar Maikap of CPI(M) in 2001. Chakradhar Maikap of CPI(M) defeated Mukul Bikash Maiti of Congress in 1996. Mukul Bikash Maity of Congress defeated Anil Kumar Manna of Janata Dal in 1991. Ram Sankar Kar of CPI(M) defeated Dwijendra Maiti of Congress in 1987. Mukul Bikash Maity of Congress defeated Anurup Panda of CPI(M) in 1982. Rashbehari Pal of Janata Party defeated Sailaja Das of Congress in 1977.^[5]

1951-1972

Kamakshyanandan Das Mohapatra of CPI won in 1972. Anil Kumar Manna of PSP won in 1971. Subodh Gopal Guchhati of PSP won in 1969. L.Das of Congress won in 1967. Bejoy Krishna Maity of Congress won in 1962. Natendra Nath Das of PSP won in 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951 Sudhir Chandra Das of KMPP won the Contai North seat.^[6]