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. It was once known as the ' Red Fort ' (্লাল গড় ) of CPI(M) for the party's long standing dominance over it for decades.

Most Successful parties from Arambagh Sabha

1. Communist Party of India (10times) (66.7%)
2. All India Trinamool Congress (3 times) (20.0%)
3. All India Forward Bloc (1 time) (6.66%)
4. "'Janata Party"' (1 time) (6.66%)

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[1]
Reservation	SC
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Mitali Bag
Party	AITC
Alliance	INDIA
Elected year	2024

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.^[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]

No	Name	District	Member	Party		2024 Lead
196	Haripal	Hooghly	Karabi Manna		Trinamool Congress		Trinamool Congress
198	Tarakeswar		Ramendu Sinharay
199	Pursurah		Biman Ghosh		Bharatiya Janata Party		Bharatiya Janata Party
200	Arambagh (SC)		Madhusudan Bag				Trinamool Congress
201	Goghat (SC)		Biswanath Karak				Bharatiya Janata Party
202	Khanakul		Sushanta Ghosh
232	Chandrakona (SC)	Paschim Medinipur	Arup Dhara		Trinamool Congress		Trinamool Congress

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.	Party Affiliation
Fourth	1967-71	Arambagh	Amiyanath Bose		All India Forward Bloc[5]
Fifth	1971-77		Manoranjan Hazra		Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6]
Sixth	1977-80		Prafulla Chandra Sen		Janata Party[7]
Seventh	1980-84		Bijoy Krishna Modak		Communist Party of India (Marxist)[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)		Trinamool Congress[17]
Seventeenth	2019-24
Eighteenth	2024-Incumbent		Mitali Bag[18]

Election results

General election 2024

2024 Indian general election: Arambagh^[19][20][21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Mitali Bag	712,587	45.71	1.57
	BJP	Arup Kanti Digar	706,188	45.30	1.24
	CPI(M)	Biplab Kumar Moitra	92,502	5.93	0.9
	NOTA	None of the above	18,031	1.16	0.23
Majority			6,399	0.41
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^[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]

See also

• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha