Name in the record
ASHARFI LAL
Also on ballots as Asharfi Lal
IND·AD·LSWP·SOPL·JD·JNP·JNPSR·BJS·BKD·SOC·SCF·UPPP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “ASHARFI LAL” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 56-year span across 26 contests, 12 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
26
1951–2007
Wins
1
Parties
12
States / UT
2
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.