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Kanti Assembly constituency

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Kanti
Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
File:95-Kanti constituency.svg
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
DistrictMuzaffarpur
Established1951
Total electors319,372
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Ajit Kumar
Party  JD(U)
AllianceNDA
Elected year2025

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.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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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
2025 Ajit Singh Janata Dal


Overview

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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]

Election results

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2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Kanti
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JD(U) Ajit Kumar 117,299 50.43
RJD Mohammad Israil Mansuri 91,504 39.34
JSP Sudarshan Mishra 4,251 1.83
NOTA None of the above 7,823 3.36
Majority 25,795
Turnout 232,600
JD(U) gain from RJD Swing
2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Kanti[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
RJD Mohammad Israil Mansuri 64,458 32.89 +6.67
Independent Ajit Kumar 54,144 27.63 +26.63
JD(U) Mohammad Jamal 25,891 13.21
LJP Bijay Prasad Singh 18,093 9.23
Independent Neera Devi 9,885 5.04
Janshakti Vikas Party (Democratic) Sunil Kumar 2,744 1.4
Jai Maha Bharath Party Krishna Devi 2,188 1.12
SUCI(C) Lal Babu Roy 2,057 1.05 +0.02
Rashtriya Jan Jan Party Anay Kumar 1,975 1.01
NOTA None of the above 1,507 0.77 −0.04
Majority 10,314 5.26 +0.09
Turnout 195,962 63.28 −1.93
RJD gain from Independent Swing


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


2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Kanti[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Ashok Kumar Choudhary (Sadatpur) 58,111 32.38
HAM(S) Ajit Kumar 48,836 27.21
RJD Md. Parwez Alam 47,050 26.22
Independent Umesh Paswan 3,109 1.73
Independent Ashok Kumar Chodhary (Dhamauli Ramnath) 2,144 1.19
BSP Md. Inamul Haque 2,031 1.13
Independent Amar Deo Singh 1,948 1.09
SUCI(C) Lal Babu Roy 1,850 1.03
Independent Arjun Prasad Gupta 1,832 1.02
Independent Ajit Kumar 1,797 1.0
NOTA None of the above 1,460 0.81
Majority 9,275 5.17
Turnout 179,468 65.21

In the 2010 state assembly elections, Ajit Kumar of JD(U) won the Kanti assembly seat, defeating his nearest rival Md. Israil of RJD.[4] 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.[5]


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.

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