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Name in the record

ABDUL KALAM

BSP·SP·IND·INC·INCU·RPK

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “ABDUL KALAM” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 3 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 43-year span across 16 contests, 6 different parties — 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
16
1974–2017
Wins
5
Parties
6
States / UT
4
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
Uttar Pradesh11 contests · 1974–2017 · 5 won
Uttar Pradesh 2017301. GauraBSP38,66722.3%Lost · 3rd
Uttar Pradesh 2012313. KhalilabadSP27,79513.4%Lost · 4th
Uttar Pradesh 2007160. MendhwalSP35,94729.6%Won
Uttar Pradesh 2002160. MendhwalSP40,14331.1%Won
Uttar Pradesh 2002227. Varanasi NorthSP56,80552.5%Won
Uttar Pradesh 1996176. MendhwalSP44,59035.6%Won
Uttar Pradesh 1996191. SiswaIND2,8472.0%Lost · 6th
Uttar Pradesh 1996243. Varanasi NorthSP67,34952.1%Won
Uttar Pradesh 1985214. PhulpurINC11,67319.2%Lost · 2nd
Uttar Pradesh 1980386. SikandrabadINCU13,64920.9%Lost · 3rd
Uttar Pradesh 1974386. SikandrabadRPK6,1618.5%Lost · 4th
Bihar2 contests · 1980–1995 · 0 won
Bihar 199553. ParuIND1580.1%Lost · 22th
Bihar 1980110. RaghopurIND1,0071.2%Lost · 6th
Rajasthan1 contest · 1993–1993 · 0 won
Rajasthan 1993107. KotaIND820.1%Lost · 21th
Lok Sabha2 contests · 1977–1984 · 0 won
Lok Sabha 198495. JamshedpurIND5630.1%Lost · 17th
Lok Sabha 1977493. BulandshahrIND2,3170.6%Lost · 7th