Nandigram Assembly constituency

This article is about the assembly constituency in West Bengal, India. For its namesake community development block, see Nandigram I. For its another namesake community development block, see Nandigram II.

Nandigram Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Purba Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Nandigram
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
Lok Sabha constituency	Tamluk
Established	1951
Total electors	196,158
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Suvendu Adhikari
Party	BJP
Elected year	2021

Overview

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]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

1951 to 1967 (Nandigram North and Nandigram South)

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
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]

1967 to present (as Nandigram)

Election	Member	Party
1967	Bhupal Chandra Panda[5]		Communist Party of India
1969[6]
1971[7]
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]	Sheikh Mohammad Illias		Communist Party of India
2006[15][16]
2009 (Bye-election)	Firoja Bibi		Trinamool Congress
2011[17]
2016	Suvendu Adhikari
2021			Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2021

In the 2021 elections, Suvendu Adhikari of BJP defeated his nearest rival and incumbent chief minister Mamata Banerjee of TMC.

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Nandigram^{[18][19][20][21][22]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Suvendu Adhikari	110,764	48.49	43.09
	AITC	Mamata Banerjee	108,808	47.64	19.56
	CPI(M)	Minakshi Mukherjee	6,267	2.74	23.96
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,090	0.48	0.15
Majority			1,956	0.85
Turnout			2,28,467	88.55	1.58
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

2016

In the 2016 elections, Suvendu Adhikari of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Abdul Kabir Sekh of CPI.

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Nandigram^[23][24][25]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	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

2011

In the 2011 elections, Firoja Bibi of Trinamool Congress defeated her nearest rival Paramananda Bharati of CPI.

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Nandigram^[23][26][27]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	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

2009 by-election

The bypoll to the Nandigram Occurred On 5 January 2009 Due To Resignation of the sitting MLA of CPI Md. Iliyas Sk.

Bye election, 2009: Nandigram^[28]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Firoja Bibi	93,022	58.28	+12.41
	CPI	Paramananda Bharati	53,473	39.35	−13.36
	BJP	Bijan Kumar Das	9,813	1.72
Majority			39,549	23.43
Turnout			1,53,407	84.75
	AITC gain from CPI		Swing	25.77

. 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.

2006

• Sheikh Mohammad Illias (CPI): 69,376 votes^[29]
• Sk Supian (AITC): 64,553
• Anwar Ali (Congress): 4,943 votes

1996

• Debisankar Panda (Congress): 61,885 votes^[29]
• Sakti Bal (CPI): 61747
• Joydeb Satpati (BJP): 1,508 votes

1977–2009

In the bye election, necessitated by the resignation of the sitting MLA Sheikh Mohammad Illias 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, Sheikh Mohammad Illias 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]

1967–1972

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]

1951–1962 Nandigram North

Subodh Chandra Maity of Congress won in 1962, 1957 and in independent India's first election in 1951.^[32]

1951–1962 Nandigram South

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]

See also

• 2021 Nandigram controversy