Constituency
529. Arambagh
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-ARAMBAGH
CPM 77.2%won by 61.4%BJP 15.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.5% to 61.4%.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,87,610
Turnout
81.2%
Valid votes
9,64,840
Margin
5,92,502
61.41%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1Anil BasuCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM7,44,46477.2%
- 2Swapan Kumar NandiBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,51,96215.7%
- 3Datta PradipIndian National Congress · INC68,4147.1%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–BJP swing
- +48.9%
- CPM share
- 54.0% → 77.2%
- BJP share
- 41.5% → 15.7%
- Turnout
- 81.6% → 81.2%