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Nandigram Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Purba Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Nandigram | |
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Constituency No. 210 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
![]() Interactive Map Outlining Nandigram Assembly Constituency | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | East India |
State | West Bengal |
District | Purba Medinipur |
LS constituency | Tamluk |
Established | 1951 |
Total electors | 196,158 |
Reservation | None |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
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Incumbent | |
Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Elected year | 2021 |
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 210 Nandigram Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Nandigram I and Nandigram II community development blocks.[1]
Nandigram Assembly constituency is part of No. 30 Tamluk (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
Election Year | Constituency | Name of M.L.A. | Party Affiliation |
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1951 | Nandigram North | Subodh Chandra Maity | Indian National Congress[2] |
Nandigram South | Prabir Chandra Jana | Indian National Congress[2] | |
1957 | Nandigram North | Subodh Chandra Maity | Indian National Congress[3] |
Nandigram South | Bhupal Chandra Panda | Communist Party of India[3] | |
1962 | Nandigram North | Subodh Chandra Maity | Indian National Congress[4] |
Nandigram South | Prabir Chandra Jana | Indian National Congress[4] |
Election | Member | Party | |
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1967 | Bhupal Chandra Panda[5] | Communist Party of India | |
1969[6] | Indian National Congress | ||
1971[7] | Communist Party of India | ||
1972[8] | |||
1977 | Prabir Jana[9] | Janata Party | |
1982 | Bhupal Chandra Panda[10] | Communist Party of India | |
1987 | Sakti Bal[11] | ||
1991[12] | |||
1996 | Debi Sankar Panda[13] | Indian National Congress | |
2001[14] | Iliyas Mohammed | Communist Party of India | |
2006[15][16] | |||
2009 (Bye-election) | Firoja Bibi | Trinamool Congress | |
2011[17] | |||
2016 | Suvendu Adhikari | ||
2021 | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
In the 2021 elections, Suvendu Adhikari of BJP defeated his nearest rival and incumbent chief minister Mamata Banerjee of TMC.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BJP | Suvendu Adhikari | 110,764 | 48.49 | ![]() | |
AITC | Mamata Banerjee | 1,08,808 | 47.64 | ![]() | |
CPI(M) | Minakshi Mukherjee | 6,267 | 2.74 | ![]() | |
NOTA | None of the Above | 1,090 | 0.48 | ![]() | |
Majority | 1,956 | 0.85 | |||
Turnout | 2,28,467 | 88.55 | ![]() | ||
BJP gain from AITC | Swing |
In the 2016 elections, Suvendu Adhikari of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Abdul Kabir Sekh of CPI.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AITC | Suvendu Adhikari | 134,623 | 67.20 | ||
CPI | Abdul Kabir Sekh | 53,393 | 26.70 | ||
BJP | Bijon Kumar Das | 10,713 | 5.40 | ||
SUCI(C) | Bappaditya Nayak | 828 | 0.40 | ||
BNP | Ram Mohan Maity | 717 | 0.40 | ||
NOTA | None of the Above | 1278 | 0.63 | N/A | |
Majority | 81,230 | 40.60 | |||
Turnout | 2,01,659 | 86.97 | |||
AITC hold | Swing |
In the 2011 elections, Firoja Bibi of Trinamool Congress defeated her nearest rival Paramananda Bharati of CPI.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AITC | Firoja Bibi | 103,300 | 61.21 | +2.93 | |
CPI | Paramananda Bharati | 59,660 | 35.35 | −4.00 | |
BJP | Bijan Kumar Das | 5,813 | 1.72 | ||
PDCI | Mehedi Masud Sekh | 2,898 | 1.69 | ||
Majority | 43,640 | 25.42 | |||
Turnout | 1,71,671 | 87.93 | |||
AITC hold | Swing |
The bypoll to the Nandigram Occurred On 5 January 2009 Due To Resignation of the sitting MLA of CPI Md. Iliyas Sk.
. Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together, as well as the CPI vote percentage, in 2006. Data for comparison not available for the 2009 by-election.
In the bye election, necessitated by the resignation of the sitting MLA Illiyas Mahammad Sk. on corruption charges, held in January 2009 in the background of Nandigram violence, Firoja Bibi of Trinamool Congress defeated Paramananda Bharati of CPI.[30][15]
In the 2006 and 2001 state assembly elections, Illiyas Mahammad Sk. of CPI won the 206 Nandigram assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Sk. Supian of Trinamool Congress in 2006 and Sunil Baran Maiti of Trinamool Congress in 2001. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Debisankar Panda of Congress defeated Sakti Bal of CPI in 1996. Sakti Bal of CPI defeated Debi Sankar Panda of Congress in 1991 and 1987. Bhupal Chandra Panda of CPI defeated Ramesh Chandra Gharai of Congress in 1982. Prabir Jana of Janata Party defeated Bhupal Chandra Panda of CPI in 1977.[31]
Bhupal Chandra Panda of CPI won in 1972, 1971, 1969 and 1967. Prior to that Nandigram had two seats, Nandigram North and Nandigram South.[32]
Subodh Chandra Maity of Congress won in 1962, 1957 and in independent India's first election in 1951.[32]
Prabir Chandra Jana of Congress won in 1962. Bhupal Chandra Panda of CPI won in 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951, Prabir Chandra Jana of Congress won the Nandigram South seat.[32]
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