Kanti (Vidhan Sabha constituency)


Kanti is an assembly constituency in Muzaffarpur district in the Indian state of Bihar. The current sitting MLA is Ashok Kumar Choudhary who won as an independent candidate defeating his nearest rival Ajit Kumar by 10000 votes.

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 95 Kanti is composed of the following: Kanti and Marwan community development blocks.
Kanti is part of No. 16 Vaishali.

Election results

1977-2010

In the 2010 state assembly elections, Ajit Kumar of JD won the Kanti assembly seat, defeating his nearest rival Md. Israil of RJD. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Ajit Kumar of JD 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.

2015

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