Bharatiya Janta Party on Kanthi

State 19 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 1 OF 6 contested

BJP runner-up 1 time

Strike rate

16.7%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 6 published candidatures

Best vote share49.80%in 2024

Worst vote share2.80%in 2009

Average vote share18.97% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1991

Last contested2024

Votes polled here15.85 Lacross all 6 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

Bharatiya Janta Party vote share · a ringed point is a year they won this seat · a dashed upright is a contest with no point for this party, where the line breaks rather than touching zero.

Did not contest: 1977, 1980, 1984, 1989, 1998, 1999, 2004 — the seat went to the polls in those years and this party fielded no candidate. The line is broken there. It is not zero.

Every contest

6 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
2024	Adhikari Soumendu	7,63,195	49.80%	1	Won
2019	Dr. Debasish Samanta	6,00,204	42.10%	2	Lost · 2nd
2014	Kamalendu Pahari	1,11,082	8.60%	3	Lost · 3rd
2009	Amalesh Mishra	31,952	2.80%	3	Lost · 3rd
1996	Amalesh Misra	32,924	4.00%	3	Lost · 3rd
1991	Amelesh Misra	45,384	6.50%	3	Lost · 3rd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)Indian National Congress All India Trinamool Congress Bharatiya Lok Dal Indian National Congress (I)West Bengal Trinamool Congress Independent Janta Party Bahujan Samaj Party Amara Bengali Janata Dal (Secular)Socialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST)Janta Party (SECULAR)Jharkhand Party Nationalist Congress Party Shiv Sena Doordarshi Party Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha

Provisional Candidate-wise results, Lok Sabha, Kanthi

Publisher: Election Commission of India
Retrieved: 2026-09-12
Computed: 2026-09-12 18:48 UTC

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