Elections 98

State:	West Bengal
Constituency:	Arambagh
Total Votes Polled:	940359
Winner: CPM	Anil Basu	521507
Runner Up: BJP	Chunilal Chakbraborty	334207
Margin: 187300 (36%)

Elections 96

State:	West Bengal
Constituency:	Arambagh
Total Votes Polled:	931653
Winner: CPM	Anil Basu	544289
Runner Up: INC	Monoranjan Hazra	317956
Margin: 226333 (24.77%)

After 1962 the Congress has never won this seat. Anil Basu has been winning this seat for the CPI-M since 1984, but in 1996 he was facing Monoranjan Hazra, who was the CPI-M MP from here in 1971 and who was contesting this election on the Congress ticket. Basu won by 227,000 votes.