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Name in the record

A. VISHWANATHAN

IND·JNP

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “A. VISHWANATHAN” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs — patterns a single career can’t produce. Read each block below as its own thread, and treat the totals as counts for the name, not for a person.

Ballot lines
3
1977–1996
Wins
1
Parties
2
States / UT
3
incl. Lok Sabha

Every contest

Grouped by state and by Lok Sabha — spelling variants are merged, and, without a candidate id, so are different people who share this name.

ElectionConstituencyPartyVotesShareResult
Lok Sabha1 contest · 19961996 · 0 won
Lok Sabha 1996200. KasaragodIND2,5500.3%Lost · 7th
Kerala1 contest · 19871987 · 0 won
Kerala 198724. Calicut- IIND4920.5%Lost · 5th
Punjab1 contest · 19771977 · 1 won
Punjab 197758. Ludhiana WestJNP25,11853.3%Won