Nandigram turnout revised to over 88%

Shubhadeep Choudhury

Tribune News Service

Kolkata, April 2

A day after polling, the Election Commission today revised the turnout in West Bengal’s Nandigram constituency to over 88 per cent, up from 80.79 per cent yesterday. The count is 2 per cent higher than that recorded in the 2016 Assembly elections.

The hot seat is in the spotlight owing to a high-voltage contest between West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee and her former loyalist-turned-BJP nominee Suvendu Adhikari.

Of the four West Bengal districts where polling was conducted for 30 seats in the second phase yesterday, Bankura initially showed the maximum turnout of 82.78 per cent. However, as more reports from polling stations arrived on Friday, Purba Medinipur district, where Nandigram is located, rose to the top slot in terms of turnout. Purba Medinipur district recorded 87.42 per cent polling, followed by Bankura (86.98), South 24 Parganas (86.74) and Pashchim Medinipur (83.84). Chandipur constituency, where actor Soham Chakraborty is the TMC candidate, recorded 89.28 per cent polling, the highest among the 30 constituencies.