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, when it was reserved for scheduled castes.
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
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.
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[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
Seventeenth
2019-Incumbent
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
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
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
AITC
Aparupa Poddar (Afrin Ali)
7,48,764
54.94
N/A
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:
