Existence 1967-present Elected Year 2014 Member of parliament Aparupa Poddar Male electors 833,629 | Reservation Reserved for SC Total Electors 1,600,293 State West Bengal Female electors 766,664 | |
Current MP Aparupa Poddar (Afrin Ali) Assembly Constituencies Haripal
Tarakeswar
Pursurah
Arambag (SC)
Goghat (SC)
Khanakul
Chandrakona (SC) Party All India Trinamool Congress Last election Indian general election, 2014 Assembly segments Arambag, Pursurah, Tarakeswar, Khanakul, Haripal, Goghat, Chandrakona | ||
Arambagh (Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Arambagh in West Bengal. While six assembly segments of No. 29 Arambagh (Lok Sabha constituency) are in Hooghly district one segment is in Paschim Medinipur district. The seat was earlier an open seat but from 2009 it was reserved for scheduled castes.
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Overview
In the 2004 Lok Sabha polls Anil Basu of CPI(M) won the Arambagh seat by a margin of 592,502 votes, which remains the highest ever victory margin in Lok Saba polls in the country.Narendra Modi of BJP won the Vadodara seat in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections by 570,128 votes.
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 (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)
Source: General Election to the Lok Sabha 2014 - State wise seats won & valid votes polled by political parties
General Elections 2009 to the 15th Lok Sabha - Party wise seats won and votes polled
General elections 1967-2009
Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below: