Constituency
530. Arambagh
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2009
IN-ARAMBAGH
CPM 54.2%won by 17.3%INC 36.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 61.4% to 17.3%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 23.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.3% to 84.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
13,75,377
Turnout
84.6%
Valid votes
11,63,337
Margin
2,01,558
17.33%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1MALIK SAKTI MOHANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6,30,25454.2%
- 2SAMBHU NATH MALIKIndian National Congress · INC4,28,69636.9%
- 3MURARI BERABharatiya Janata Party · BJP57,9035.0%
- 4PARIMAL BISWASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP24,7622.1%
- 5SUBIR KUMAR MAJHIJDP · JDP21,7221.9%
Since 2004
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −52.7%
- CPM share
- 77.2% → 54.2%
- INC share
- 7.1% → 36.9%
- Turnout
- 81.2% → 84.6%