Biggest Margin Lok Sabha Constituencies

2004 Lok Sabha (Parliament) Election · Top 25 constituencies by margin (votes)

In the 2004 Lok Sabha election, the biggest landslide was in Arambagh (West Bengal), where Anil Basu (Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)) won by 592,502 votes (61.60% margin). The full ranked list of the top 25 constituencies is below — click any constituency to see its complete candidate-wise result.

Difference in votes between the winner and the runner-up. Bigger = more one-sided.

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Rank Constituency State Winner Party Margin (votes)
1 Arambagh West Bengal Anil Basu Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 592,502 (61.60%)
2 Kokrajhar ST Assam Sansuma Khunggur Bwiswmuthiary Independent 484,129 (50.10%)
3 Burdwan West Bengal Nikhilananda Sar Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 471,351 (47.40%)
4 Nagaland Nagaland W. Wangyuh Nagaland Peoples Front 452,019 (47.50%)
5 Baramati Maharashtra Pawar Sharadchandra Govindrao Nationalist Congress Party 422,975 (47.40%)
6 Tripura West Tripura Khagen Das Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 384,636 (55.00%)
7 Jhargram ST West Bengal Rupchand Murmu Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 351,343 (44.30%)
8 Kairana Uttar Pradesh Anuradha Choudhary Rashtriya Lok Dal 342,414 (41.90%)
9 Mainpuri Uttar Pradesh Mulayam Singh Yadav Samajwadi Party 337,870 (46.90%)
10 Bishnupur SC West Bengal Susmita Bauri Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 331,829 (41.30%)
11 Tripura East ST Tripura Baju Ban Riyan Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 310,736 (50.20%)
12 Bolpur West Bengal Somnath Chatterjee Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 310,305 (40.40%)
13 Kannauj Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav Samajwadi Party 307,373 (40.50%)
14 Bhopal Madhya Pradesh Kailash Joshi Bharatiya Janata Party 306,005 (35.70%)
15 Amethi Uttar Pradesh Rahul Gandhi Indian National Congress 290,853 (49.30%)
16 Panskura West Bengal Gurudas Das Gupta Communist Party Of India 279,478 (32.10%)
17 Durgapur SC West Bengal Sunil Khan Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 277,508 (32.80%)
18 Barmer Rajasthan Manvendra Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 271,888 (26.00%)
19 Peddapalle SC Andhra Pradesh G. Venkat Swamy Indian National Congress 263,135 (28.00%)
20 Vidisha Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chauhan Bharatiya Janata Party 260,726 (39.70%)
21 Sasaram SC Bihar Meira Kumar Indian National Congress 258,262 (37.00%)
22 Chennai North Tamil Nadu Kuppusami. C Dravida Munetra Kazhagam 253,539 (27.70%)
23 Rae Bareli Uttar Pradesh Sonia Gandhi Indian National Congress 249,765 (38.80%)
24 Howrah West Bengal Swadesh Chakrabortty Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 246,937 (27.20%)
25 Hajipur SC Bihar Ram Vilas Paswan Lok Jan Shakti Party 237,801 (30.70%)

Why this list matters

The biggest-margin constituencies are India's "safe seats" — places where one party or candidate has built a deep organisational base, demographic fit, or personal following large enough that competitors don't really threaten them. Landslide wins of 5 lakh or more votes are not uncommon in India's largest constituencies, especially when a high-profile leader contests against a fragmented opposition.

Margin alone doesn't tell the whole story — open any constituency to see vote share percentages and the gap to the runner-up.

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