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 ' of CPI for the party's long standing dominance over it for decades.
Overview
In the 2004 Lok Sabha polls Anil Basu of CPI 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:Prior to delimitation, Arambagh Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments: Tarakeswar, Pursurah, Khanakul (SC), Arambagh, Goghat (SC), Chandrakona, Ghatal (SC)
Election results
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 | Prafulla Chandra Sen | Janata Party |
| 1984 | Anil Basu | Communist Party of India | Gopal Das Nag | Indian National Congress |
| 1989 | Anil Basu | Communist Party of India | Sheikh Hasan Imam | Indian National Congress |
| 1991 | Anil Basu | Communist Party of India | Sheikh Hasan Imam | Indian National Congress |
| 1996 | Anil Basu | Communist Party of India | Monoranjan Hazra | Indian National Congress |
| 1998 | Anil Basu | Communist Party of India | Chunilal Chakraborty | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 1999 | Anil Basu | Communist Party of India | Chunilal Chakraborty | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2004 | Anil Basu | Communist Party of India | Swapan Kumar Nandi | Bharatiya Janata Party |