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Arambagh (Lok Sabha Constituency)
Arambagh Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 constituencies of the lower house of parliament in India. The constituency centres on the city of Arambagh in West Bengal. While six assembly segments of Arambagh Lok Sabha constituency are in Hooghly district, one segment is in Paschim Medinipur district. It was an open seat before 2009, but now it is reserved for scheduled castes.

Most Successful parties from Arambagh Sabha

  Communist Party of India (10times) (66.66%)
  All India Trinamool Congress (3 times) (20%)
  All India Forward Bloc (1 time) (6.66%)
  "'Janata Party"' (1 time) (6.66%)

Overview

1. Cooch Behar, 2. Alipurduars, 3. Jalpaiguri, 4. Darjeeling, 5. Raiganj, 6. Balurghat, 7. Maldaha Uttar, 8. Maldaha Dakshin, 9. Jangipur, 10. Baharampur, 11. Murshidabad, 12. Krishnanagar, 13. Ranaghat, 14. Bangaon, 15. Barrackpore, 16. Dum Dum, 17. Barasat, 18. Basirhat, 19. Jaynagar, 20. Mathurapur, 21. Diamond Harbour, 22. Jadavpur, 23. Kolkata Dakshin, 24. Kolkata Uttar, 25. Howrah, 26. Uluberia, 27. Serampore, 28. Hooghly, 29. Arambagh, 30. Tamluk, 31, Kanthi, 32. Ghatal, 33. Jhargram, 34. Medinipur, 35. Purulia, 36. Bankura, 37. Bishnupur, 38. Bardhaman Purba, 39. Bardhaman Durgapur, 40. Asansol, 41. Bolpur, 42. Birbhum

In the 2004 Lok Sabha polls Anil Basu of CPI(M) won the Arambagh seat by a margin of 592,502 votes, which remained for a long time the highest ever victory margin in Lok Sabha polls in the country.

Assembly segments

As per order of the Delimitation Commission issued in 2006 in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency No. 29 Arambag, reserved for Scheduled castes (SC), is composed of the following assembly segments:

Constituency number Name District Party
(as of 2021) 		Party (as of 2024)
196 Haripal Hooghly TMC TMC
198 Tarakeswar TMC TMC
199 Pursurah BJP BJP
200 Arambagh (SC) BJP TMC
201 Goghat (SC) BJP BJP
202 Khanakul BJP BJP
232 Chandrakona (SC) Paschim Medinipur TMC TMC

Prior to delimitation, Arambagh Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments: Tarakeswar (assembly constituency no. 185), Pursurah (assembly constituency no. 192), Khanakul (SC) (assembly constituency no. 193), Arambagh (assembly constituency no. 194), Goghat (SC) (assembly constituency no. 195), Chandrakona (assembly constituency no. 196), Ghatal (SC) (assembly constituency no. 197)

Members of Parliament

Lok Sabha Duration Constituency Name of M.P. Party Affiliation
Fourth 1967-71 Arambagh Amiyanath Bose All India Forward Bloc
Fifth 1971-77 Manoranjan Hazra Communist Party of India
Sixth 1977-80 Prafulla Chandra Sen Janata Party
Seventh 1980-84 Bijoy Krishna Modak Communist Party of India
Eighth 1984-89 Anil Basu
Ninth 1989-91
Tenth 1991-96
Eleventh 1996-98
Twelfth 1998-99
Thirteenth 1999-04
Fourteenth 2004-09
Fifteenth 2009-14 Sakti Mohan Malik
Sixteenth 2014-19 Aparupa Poddar (Afrin Ali) All India Trinamool Congress
Seventeenth 2019-24
Eighteenth 2024-Incumbent Mitali Bag

Election results

General election 2024

2024 Indian general election: Arambagh
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Mitali Bag 712,587 45.71 Increase1.57
BJP Arup Kanti Digar 706,188 45.30 Increase1.24
CPI(M) Biplab Kumar Moitra 92,502 5.93 Decrease0.90
NOTA None of the above 18,031 1.16 Decrease0.23
Majority 6,399
Turnout 1,559,079 82.62
AITC hold Swing

General election 2019

2019 Indian general election: Arambagh
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Aparupa Poddar 649,929 44.14 -10.79
BJP Tapan Kumar Roy 648,787 44.06 +32.45
CPI(M) Sakti Mohan Malik 100,520 6.83 -22.68
INC Jyoti Kumari Das 25,128 1.71 -0.33
NOTA None of the above 20,495 1.39
Majority 1,142 0.07 -25.39
Turnout 1,471,981 83.44 -1.67
Registered electors 1,764,726
AITC hold Swing -21.62

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Arambagh
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Aparupa Poddar (Afrin Ali) 7,48,764 54.94 New
CPI(M) Sakti Mohan Malik 4,01,919 29.51 -25.29
BJP Madhusudan Bag 1,58,480 11.63 +6.66
INC Sambhu Nath Malik 27,872 2.04 -34.81
JDP Ganesh Bag 7,062 0.51 -1.35
Majority 3,46,845 25.46 +8.14
Turnout 13,61,934 85.11 +0.53
AITC gain from CPI(M) Swing +42.64

General election 2009

2009 Indian general elections: Arambagh
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI(M) Sakti Mohan Malik 6,30,454 54.80 -22.99
INC Sambhu Nath Malik 4,28,696 36.85 +29.76
BJP Murari Bera 57,903 4.97 -10.78
BSP Parimal Biswas 24,762 2.12 N/A
JDP Subir Kumar Majhi 21,722 1.86 N/A
Majority 2,01,558 17.32 -44.09
Turnout 11,63,337 84.58 +3.34
CPI(M) hold Swing -22.99

General elections 1967-2009

Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:

Year Winner Runner-up
Candidate Party Candidate Party
1967 Amiyanath Bose All India Forward Bloc Sachin Choudhury Indian National Congress
1971 Manoranjan Hazra Communist Party of India (Marxist) Santi Mohan Ray Indian National Congress
1977 Prafulla Chandra Sen Bharatiya Lok Dal Santi Mohan Roy Indian National Congress
1980 Bijoy Krishna Modak Communist Party of India (Marxist) Prafulla Chandra Sen Janata Party
1984 Anil Basu Communist Party of India (Marxist) Gopal Das Nag Indian National Congress
1989 Anil Basu Communist Party of India (Marxist) Sheikh Hasan Imam Indian National Congress
1991 Anil Basu Communist Party of India (Marxist) Sheikh Hasan Imam Indian National Congress
1996 Anil Basu Communist Party of India (Marxist) Monoranjan Hazra Indian National Congress
1998 Anil Basu Communist Party of India (Marxist) Chunilal Chakraborty Bharatiya Janata Party
1999 Anil Basu Communist Party of India (Marxist) Chunilal Chakraborty Bharatiya Janata Party
2004 Anil Basu Communist Party of India (Marxist) Swapan Kumar Nandi Bharatiya Janata Party

See also