Nakashipara is a largely rural Assembly constituency in West Bengal’s Nadia district and has emerged as a stronghold of the Trinamool Congress, with the Bharatiya Janata Party still attempting to convert its Lok Sabha-level gains into success in Assembly elections.
In the 2021 Assembly elections, the seat was won by Trinamool Congress. TMC candidate Kallol Khan defeated the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Shantanu Deb by a margin of 21,271 votes. The Nakashipara Assembly constituency is part of the Krishnanagar Lok Sabha constituency. In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Trinamool Congress candidate Mahua Moitra won the Krishnanagar parliamentary seat, defeating the BJP’s Rajmata Amrita Roy by a margin of 56,705 votes.
The constituency had 256,405 registered voters in 2024, up from 247,691 in 2021, 234,501 in 2019, 221,339 in 2016 and 187,228 in 2011. Muslims constitute around 39 per cent of the electorate, making them the largest voting bloc, while Scheduled Castes account for 26.07 per cent and Scheduled Tribes for 3.25 per cent.
Nakashipara is predominantly rural, with 88.53 per cent of voters residing in rural areas and 11.47 per cent in urban pockets. Voter turnout has remained consistently strong, mostly above 80 per cent, recording 87.47 per cent in 2011, 85.48 per cent in 2016, 83.65 per cent in 2019, 84.67 per cent in 2021 and 80.09 per cent in 2024.