Arambagh Lok Sabha constituency

Arambagh
WB-29
Arambagh ; WB-29
Lok Sabha constituency
	Interactive Map Outlining Arambagh Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Hooghly & Pashim Medinipur
Assembly constituencies	Haripal ; Tarakeswar ; Pursurah ; Arambag ; Goghat ; Khanakul ; Chandrakona
Established	1967
Total electors	1,600,293
Reservation	SC
Member of Parliament
	17th Lok Sabha
	Incumbent Afrin Ali
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2014

Last updated May 27, 2024

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.

Overview

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.^[2]

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:^[3]

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District	Party (as of 2021)
196	Haripal	None	Hooghly	TMC
198	Tarakeswar	None	Hooghly	TMC
199	Pursurah	None	Hooghly	BJP
200	Arambagh	SC	Hooghly	BJP
201	Goghat	SC	Hooghly	BJP
202	Khanakul	None	Hooghly	BJP
232	Chandrakona	SC	Paschim Medinipur	TMC

Prior to delimitation, Arambagh Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:^[4] 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.
Fourth	1967-71	Arambagh	Amiyanath Bose	All India Forward Bloc ^[5]
Fifth	1971-77		Manoranjan Hazra	Communist Party of India ^[6]
Sixth	1977-80		Prafulla Chandra Sen	Janata Party ^[7]
Seventh	1980-84		Bijoy Krishna Modak	Communist Party of India ^[8]
Eighth	1984-89		Anil Basu ^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]
Ninth	1989-91
Tenth	1991-96
Eleventh	1996-98
Twelfth	1998-99
Thirteenth	1999-04
Fourteenth	2004-09
Fifteenth	2009-14		Sakti Mohan Malik ^[16]
Sixteenth	2014-19		Aparupa Poddar (Afrin Ali)	All India Trinamool Congress ^[17]
Seventeenth	2019-Incumbent		Aparupa Poddar (Afrin Ali)	All India Trinamool Congress ^[17]

Election results

General election 2024

2024 Indian general election: Arambagh
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AITC	Mitali Bag
	CPI(M)	Biplab Kumar Moitra
	BJP	Arup Kanti Digar
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority
Turnout				82.62
	gain from		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 ^[17]
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 ^[16]
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 ^[5]
1971	Manoranjan Hazra	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Santi Mohan Ray	Indian National Congress^[6]
1977	Prafulla Chandra Sen	Bharatiya Lok Dal	Santi Mohan Roy	Indian National Congress^[7]
1980	Bijoy Krishna Modak	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Prafulla Chandra Sen	Janata Party ^[8]
1984	Anil Basu	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Gopal Das Nag	Indian National Congress^[9]
1989	Anil Basu	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Sheikh Hasan Imam	Indian National Congress^[10]
1991	Anil Basu	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Sheikh Hasan Imam	Indian National Congress^[11]
1996	Anil Basu	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Monoranjan Hazra	Indian National Congress^[12]
1998	Anil Basu	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Chunilal Chakraborty	Bharatiya Janata Party ^[13]
1999	Anil Basu	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Chunilal Chakraborty	Bharatiya Janata Party^[14]
2004	Anil Basu	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Swapan Kumar Nandi	Bharatiya Janata Party^[15]

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