Suvendu Adhikari won West Bengal’s Nandigram constituency in 2016

The Nandigram Vidhan Sabha (assembly) constituency is located in the Purba Medinipur district in West Bengal. The Nandigram assembly constituency is part of the Tamluk Lok Sabha constituency. 

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, the Nandigram assembly constituency is composed of Nandigram I and Nandigram II community development blocks. 

In the 2016 state assembly elections, TMC candidate Suvendu Adhikari won the Nandigram assembly constituency. In the 2021 assembly elections, Suvendu Adhikari is contesting from the seat as a BJP candidate. TMC supremo and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee is contesting from the seat, up against Adhikari. 

Here are a few details about the Nandigram assembly seat

Name of the assembly constituency, district: Nandigram, Medinipur 

Lok Sabha constituency: Tamluk

2016 candidates: Adhikari Suvendu of AITC and Abdul Kabir Sekh of CPI

2020 candidates: Mamata Banerjee (TMC), Suvendu Adhikari (BJP)

Sitting MLA, party: Suvendu Adhikari

Winning margin in 2016: 81,230 

Runner up name, party: Abdul Kabir Sekh of CPI

Number of voters in 2016: 201,659

Percentage of votes polled in 2016: 86.97%

Number of polling booths in 2016: 271