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
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	267,608
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Hasi Rani Rath
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2026^

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

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

Further information: Nandigram North Assembly constituency and Nandigram South Assembly constituency

1967 to Present Nandigram

Election	Member	Party
1967	Bhupal Chandra Panda [2]		Communist Party of India
1969 [3]
1971 [4]
1972 [5]
1977	Prabir Chandra Jana [6]		Janata Party
1982	Bhupal Chandra Panda [7]		Communist Party of India
1987	Sakti Bal [8]
1991 [9]
1996	Debi Sankar Panda [10]		Indian National Congress
2001 [11]	Sheikh Mohammad Illias		Communist Party of India
2006 [12] [13]
2009^	Phiroja Bibi		Trinamool Congress
2011 [14]
2016	Suvendu Adhikari [a]
2021			Bharatiya Janata Party
2026
2026^	Hasi Rani Rath

• ^ denotes by-election

Election results

Vote share of winning candidates

2026 (by-poll)			75.94%
2026			50.37%
2021			48.49%
2016			67.20%
2011			61.21%
2009 (by-poll)			58.28%
2006			48.7%
2001			51.50%
1996			49.20%
1991			47.90%
1987			52.60%
1982			54.30%
1977			46.60%

2026 by-election

2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly by-election: Nandigram ^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Hasi Rani Rath	164,427	75.94	25.57
	INC	Milan Pradhan	41,674	19.25	18.94
	CPI	Shanti Gopal Giri	5,779	2.67	1.48
	AISF	Ali Mohammad Sabe Miraj Khan	1,607	0.74	0.01
	DTC	Ehtesamul Haque	853	0.39
	Independent	Sayeed Mahammad	723	0.33
	JUP	Sk Hasibul	325	0.15
	NOTA	None of the above	643	0.30	0.06
Majority			1,22,753	56.69	52.87
Turnout			2,16,515	80.89	13.70
	BJP hold		Swing

2026

2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Nandigram ^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Suvendu Adhikari	127,301	50.37	1.88
	AITC	Pabitra Kar	117,636	46.55	1.09
	CPI	Shanti Gopal Giri	2,977	1.19	1.55
	AISF	Ali Mohammad Sabe Miraj Khan	1,898	0.75	New
	NOTA	None of the above	919	0.36	0.12
	INC	Sekh Jariatul Hossain	794	0.31	−
Majority			9,665	3.82	2.97
Turnout			252,722	94.59	6.06
	BJP hold		Swing

2021

Main article: 2021 Nandigram Assembly election

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Nandigram ^[17]

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
Majority			1,956	0.85
Turnout			228,405	88.53
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing	31.33

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Nandigram ^{[18] [19] [20]}

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	7.32

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Nandigram ^[14]

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	3.47

2009 by-election

The bypoll to the Nandigram Occurred On 5 January 2009 Due To Resignation of the sitting MLA of CPI Sheikh Mohammad Illias.

Bye election, 2009: Nandigram ^{[21] [22]}

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.

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. ^{[22] [12]}

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. ^[23]

2006

2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Nandigram ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Sheikh Mohammad Illias	93,022	48.7
	AITC	Sk Supian	53,473	45.3
	INC	Anwar Ali Sk	4943	3.5
Majority			4,823	3.4
Turnout			1,42,548	88.1
	CPI hold		Swing

2001

2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Nandigram ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Sheikh Mohammad Illias	67,544	51.5
	AITC	Sunil Baran Maiti	59,540	45.4
	BJP	Mohit Kumar Tripathi	4,071	4,071
Majority			8004	6.1
Turnout			1,31,200	81.4
	CPI hold		Swing

1996

1996 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Nandigram ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Debisankar Panda	61,885	49.2
	CPI	Sakti Bal	61,747	49.1
	BJP	Joydeb Satpati	1,508	1.2
Majority			138	0.1
Turnout			1,28,160	87.4
	INC gain from CPI		Swing

1991

1991 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Nandigram ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Sakti Bal	49,923	47.9
	INC	Debisankar Panda	46,253	44.3
	Independent	Sunil Maity	4,655	4.5
	BJP	Santosh Kumar Das	2,830	2.7
	Independent	Bhanani Prasad Das	672	0.6
Majority			3,670	3.4
Turnout			1,07,039	78.8
	CPI hold		Swing

1987

1987 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Nandigram ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Sakti Bal	47,786	52.6
	INC	Debisankar Panda	41,914	46.2
	SUCI(C)	Pijush Kanti Bhunia	1,113	1.2
Majority			5,872	6.4
Turnout			91,985	78.9
	CPI hold		Swing

1982

1982 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Nandigram ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Bhupal Chandra Panda	43,767	54.3
	INC	Ramesh Chandra Gharai	34,516	42.9
	JP	Prasanta Gayaen	2,057	2.6
	independence	Jagadish Chandra Das	208	0.3
Majority			9,251	11.3
Turnout			81,892	77.5
	CPI gain from JP		Swing

1977

1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Nandigram ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JP	Prabir Jana	26,388	46.6
	CPI	Bhupal Chandra Panda	12,135	20.5
	CPI(M)	Rabindra Nath Maiti	10,744	18.2
	INC	Ramesh Chandra Gharai	8,932	15.1
	Independent	Sunil Baran Maiti	382	0.7
	Independent	Syed Asaf Ali	352	0.6
	Independent	Sitangsu Sekhar Das	205	0.4
Majority			14,253	23.8
Turnout			59,977	62.8
	JP gain from CPI		Swing

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. ^[24]

1962

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. ^[24]

See also

• 2021 Nandigram controversy

Notes

1. Adhikari resigned on 19 December 2020, 13 May 2026.

References

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