Kanti Assembly constituency

Kanti is an assembly constituency in Muzaffarpur district in the Indian state of Bihar. The current sitting MLA (member of legislative assembly) is Mohammad Israil Mansuri who won as a RJD candidate defeating his nearest rival Ajit Kumar by 10000 votes.

Kanti
Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Muzaffarpur
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Elected year	2020

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[1]	Party
1952	Jamuna Prasad Tripathi		Indian National Congress
1957
1962
1967	M. P. Sinha
1969	Harihar Prasad Shahi		Lok Tantrik Congress
1972	Shambhu Sharan Thakur		Indian National Congress
1977	Thakur Prasad Singh		Janata Party
1980	Nalini Ranjan Singh		Socialist Unity Centre of India
1985
1990			Janata Dal
1995	Mufti Mohammad Quasim
2000	Gulam Jilani Warsi		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Ajit Singh		Lok Janshakti Party
2005			Janata Dal (United)
2010
2015	Ashok Kumar Choudhary		Independent politician
2020	Mohammad Israil Mansuri		Rashtriya Janata Dal

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 95 Kanti Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Kanti and Marwan community development blocks.^[2]

Kanti Assembly constituency is part of No. 16 Vaishali (Lok Sabha constituency).^[2] and it's a Bhumihar dominated constituency.

Election results

1951-1972

In the 1951 state assembly elections, Jamuna Prasad Tripathy (Yamuna Prasad Tripathy) of INC defeated Nagendra Prasad Singh (IND) by 3049 votes. In 1957 state assembly elections, Jamuna Prasad Tripathy (Yamuna Prasad Tripathy) of INC again won the Kanti assembly seat, defeating his nearest rival Yogendra Prasad Sharma by a close margin of 445 votes. In 1962 Jamuna Prasad Tripathy (Yamuna Prasad Tripathy) defeated Harihar Prasad Shahi by a margin of 2714 votes. M.P. Sinha was the congress candidate in 1967 election which he won by a huge margin of 31034 votes. In 1969 state assembly elections Harihar Prasad Shahi of LTC defeated 3 times INC MLA Jamuna Prasad Tripathy (Yamuna Prasad Tripathy). Shambhu Sharan Thakur of INC won the 1972 election by 1462 votes.

1977-2010

In the 2010 state assembly elections, Ajit Kumar of JD(U) won the Kanti assembly seat, defeating his nearest rival Md. Israil of RJD.^[3] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners up are being mentioned. Ajit Kumar of JD(U) defeated Muhmad Haidar Azad of RJD in October 2005. Ajit Kumar representing LJP defeated Md. Jamal of RJD in February 2005. Gulam Jilani Warsi of RJD defeated Ajit Kumar of AJBP in 2000. Mufti Mohammad Quasim of Janata Dal defeated Ajit Kumar of Congress in 1995. Nalini Ranjan Singh of JD defeated Shambhu Sharan Thakur of Congress in 1990. Nalini Ranjan Singh representing SUC defeated Tarakeshari Sinha of LD in 1985 and Shambhu Sharan Thakur of Congress in 1980. Thakur Prasad Singh of JP defeated Nalini Ranjan Singh of SUC in 1977.^[4]

2015

In the 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election Ashok Kumar Choudhary won the seat by almost 10000 votes against Ajit Kumar.

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Kanti

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Mohammad Israil Mansuri	64,458
	JD(U)	Mohammad Jamal
	LJP	Bijay Prasad Singh
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority
Turnout
	gain from		Swing