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Communist Party Of India (Marxist) on Kanthi

State 19 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat
Record on this seat

WON 6 OF 11 contested

CPIM runner-up 4 times
Strike rate
54.5%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 11 published candidatures
Best vote share51.20%in 1989
Worst vote share5.30%in 2019
Average vote share42.65% mean across contests carrying a share
First contested1980
Last contested2019
Votes polled here38.33 Lacross all 11 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held
Line chart: Communist Party Of India (Marxist) vote share in Kanthi, Lok Sabha, 1977 to 2024. Vertical axis 0 to 60 per cent. Years the party did not contest are left blank rather than plotted at zero. Ringed points are years it won the seat.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%1977198019841989199119961998199920042009201420192024

Communist Party Of India (Marxist) 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, 2024 — 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

11 candidatures · most recent first
Year Candidate Votes Vote % Position Result
2019 Paritosh Pattanayak 76,185 5.30% 3 Lost · 3rd
2014 Sinha Tapas 4,47,259 34.60% 2 Lost · 2nd
2009 Prasanta Pradhan 4,77,609 42.50% 2 Lost · 2nd
2004 Prasanta Pradhan 4,64,743 50.40% 1 Won
1999 Sudhir Giri 3,82,915 46.50% 2 Lost · 2nd
1998 Sudhir Giri 3,94,017 47.20% 1 Won
1996 Sudhir Giri 3,97,028 47.90% 1 Won
1991 Sudhir Giri 3,23,390 46.40% 1 Won
1989 Sudhir Giri 3,64,318 51.20% 1 Won
1984 Sudhi Kumar Giri 2,68,307 47.50% 2 Lost · 2nd
1980 Giri Sudhir Kumar 2,37,002 49.70% 1 Won

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Indian National CongressAll India Trinamool CongressBharatiya Janta PartyBharatiya Lok DalIndian National Congress (I)West Bengal Trinamool CongressIndependentJanta PartyBahujan Samaj PartyAmara BengaliJanata Dal (Secular)Socialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST)Janta Party (SECULAR)Jharkhand PartyNationalist Congress PartyShiv SenaDoordarshi PartyAkhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha

Provisional Candidate-wise results, Lok Sabha, Kanthi
Publisher
Election Commission of India
Retrieved
2026-09-13
Computed
2026-09-13 01:01 UTC

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