He graduated from the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Agriculture in 1985 and took postgraduate studies at the same institution in 1986–87, although he left before completing his exams.
[4] He was not successful; the winning candidate was Ivan Vojnić Tunić of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS).
For parliamentary elections, the entire country became a single electoral district and all mandates were distributed to candidates on successful lists at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions, irrespective of numerical order.
[11] After a period of internal turmoil, the DSHV removed Bela Tonković as party leader on 6 July 2003 and appointed Kuntić as his successor on an interim basis.
Kuntić ran for Subotica's second division in the 2004 Vojvodina provincial election and was defeated by Mirko Bajić in the second round of voting.
[22] At the time Kuntić became deputy mayor, the DSHV had been aligned with the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SMV) in Subotica for over a decade.
The alliance broke down in 2007, and the DSHV formed a new partnership with the Democratic Party (DS), a frequent rival to the SMV at the local level.
A group of DSHV members who opposed this decision formed another breakaway party called the Democratic Union of Croats (DZH).
[26] He resigned as deputy mayor of Subotica in late 2007, after the Republic Agency for the Prevention of Conflicts of Interest ruled that he could not hold a dual mandate as a parliamentarian and an executive member of the local government.
The DS contested the election at the head of an alliance called For a European Serbia (ZES), which also included the DSHV.
After extended negotiations, ZES formed a coalition government with the Socialist Party of Serbia, and Kuntić again supported the ministry.
[30] Serbia reformed its electoral system again in 2011, such that all parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists.
After the vote, he identified the disproportionate electoral strength of the Bosnian Croat community as a deficiency in the system.
Croatia Is Growing, the country's main centre-left alliance in 2015, did not field a slate of candidates for Croatians abroad.