| 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 | |
| Party | AITC |
| Alliance | INDIA |
| Elected year | 2024 |
Arambagh Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 constituencies of thelower house of parliament inIndia. The constituency centres on the city ofArambagh inWest Bengal. While six assembly segments of Arambagh Lok Sabha constituency are inHooghly district, one segment is inPaschim Medinipur district. It was an open seat before 2009, but now it is reserved forscheduled 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.
In the 2004 Lok Sabha pollsAnil 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]
As per order of theDelimitation Commission issued in 2006 in respect of thedelimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency No. 29 Arambag, reserved forScheduled castes (SC), is composed of the followingassembly segments:[3]
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)
| 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] | |||
| 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 | |||
| AITChold | Swing | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| AITChold | Swing | -21.62 | |||
| 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 | ||
| AITCgain fromCPI(M) | Swing | +42.64 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Sakti Mohan Malik | 6,30,454 | 54.63 | −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 | 17.78 | −44.09 | ||
| Turnout | 11,63,337 | 84.58 | +3.34 | ||
| CPI(M)hold | Swing | -22.99 | |||
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] |