Arambagh is an assembly constituency in

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in the

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. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 200 Arambagh Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following: Arambagh municipality, and Arandi I, Arandi II, Batanal, Gaurhati I, Gaurhati II, Madhabpur, Mayapur I, Mayapur II, Salepur I, Salepur II and Tirol gram panchayats of Arambagh

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. Arambagh Assembly constituency (SC) is part of No. 29

Arambagh (Lok Sabha constituency) Arambagh Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 constituencies of the Lok Sabha, 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 constitue ...

(SC).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election results

1951-1972

Prafulla Chandra Sen Prafulla Chandra Sen (10 April 1897 – 25 September 1990) was an Indian politician and freedom fighter. He was the Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1962 to 1967. Background Prafulla Chandra Sen was born in the village Senhati in the Khulna ...

won the Arambagh seat in 1972, 1971 and 1969. In a historic contest in 1967 Prafulla Chandra Sen, then the Congress Chief Minister, lost the Arambagh seat to Ajay Kumar Mukherjee of Bangla Congress, who became the new Chief Minister, in the first

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government in the state. The main factor of Sen's defeat was student agitation there. Students under the leadership of Narayan Ch Ghosh had organised farmers, poor people and the middle class against Sen. In

1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...

Arambagh had two seats. Prafulla Chandra Sen of Congress won the Arambagh East seat and Radha Krishna Pal of Congress won the Arambagh West seat. In

1957 Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricke ...

Radha Krishna Pal of Congress won the Arambagh seat. In independent India's first general election in 1951 Arambagh had twin seats. These were won by Madan Mohan Saha of CPI and Radha Krishna Pal, Independent.

1977-2006

In the

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, 2001 and 1996 state assembly elections, Binoy Dutta of

CPI(M) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)) is a communist political party in India. It is the largest communist party in India in terms of membership and electoral seats, and one of the six national parties of India. ...

won the Arambagh assembly seat, defeating Bibhabindu Nandi of

Trinamool Congress The All India Trinamool Congress (; AITC), simply known as Trinamool Congress, is an Indian political party that is mainly influential in the Federated state, state of West Bengal. It was founded by Mamata Banerjee on 1 January 1998 as a Lis ...

in 2006, Sk. Hasan Imam of Trinamool Congress in 2001, and Abdus Sukkur of

Congress A congress is a formal meeting of the representatives of different countries, constituent states, organizations, trade unions, political parties, or other groups. The term originated in Late Middle English to denote an encounter (meeting of ...

in 1996. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Benode Das of CPI(M) defeated Jalim Singha Roy of Congress in 1991 and Abdul Mannan of Congress in 1987. Abdul Mannan of Congress defeated independent candidate Ranjit Chakraborty in 1982. Ajoy Kumar Dey of

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defeated Madan Kumar Saha of CPI(M) in 1977.

1977

1982

1987

1991

1996

2001

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

2006

.# Swing calculated on BJP+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

2011

.# Swing calculated on Congress+

vote percentages taken together in 2006.

2016

.# Swing calculated on Congress+ LF vote percentages taken together in 2006.

2021

References

{{West Bengal elections Assembly constituencies of West Bengal Politics of Hooghly district 1951 establishments in West Bengal Constituencies established in 1951