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Name in the record

ABDUL GHAFFAR

SAD·INC·IND

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “ABDUL GHAFFAR” 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
5
1957–2007
Wins
1
Parties
3
States / UT
2

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
Punjab3 contests · 19922007 · 1 won
Punjab 200781. MalerkotlaSAD57,98441.7%Lost · 2nd
Punjab 199781. MalerkotlaINC17,66716.6%Lost · 3rd
Punjab 199281. MalerkotlaINC14,27143.0%Won
Uttar Pradesh2 contests · 19571985 · 0 won
Uttar Pradesh 198517. SeoharaIND3810.4%Lost · 11th
Uttar Pradesh 195719. DeobandIND6,2213.2%Lost · 7th