Nandakumar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Nandakumar
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Nandakumar Location in West Bengal
Coordinates:
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Medinipur
Constituency No.	207
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	Tamluk
Electorate (year)	192,113 (2011)

Nandakumar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (Bengali: নন্দকুমার বিধানসভা কেন্দ্র) is an assembly constituency in Purba Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal. As a consequence of the orders of the Delimitation Commission, Narghat (Vidhan Sabha constituency) ceased to exist and Nandakumar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) came into existence in 2011.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 207 Nandakumar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Nandakumar community development block and Bishnubarh I, Padumpur I and Padumpur II gram panchayats of Tamluk community development block.

Nandakumar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 30 Tamluk (Lok Sabha constituency).

Results

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Nandakumar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Trinamool Congress	Sukumar Dey	89,717	50.94	+2.76#
	SP	Brahmamoy Nanda	77,850	44.20	-5.96#
	BJP	Nilanjan Adhikari	5,152	2.93
	Independent	Maphijul Islam Sekh	1,807
	People’s Democratic Conference of India	Abdur Razak Sk.	160
Turnout			176,131	91.68
	Trinamool Congress gain from SP		Swing	7.72#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together and vote percentage of WBSP, in the now-defunct Narghat constituency in 2006.

 West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2011
Purba Medinipur district summary

Party	Seats won	Seat change
Trinamool Congress	16	12
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	0	6
Communist Party of India	0	3
WBSP/SP	0	3