Name in the record
BALAKRISHNAN, V.
Also on ballots as BALAKRISHNAN V
IND·VBMP·ADKJL·AIADMK
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “BALAKRISHNAN, V.” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 41-year span across 7 contests — 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
7
1980–2021
Wins
2
Parties
4
States / UT
1
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.
| Election | Constituency | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tamil Nadu 2021 | 176. Pattukkottai | IND | 23,771 | 13.4% | Lost · 3rd |
| Tamil Nadu 2016 | 43. Vellore | VBMP | 200 | 0.1% | Lost · 14th |
| Tamil Nadu 1996 | 205. Sattur | IND | 56 | 0.0% | Lost · 31th |
| Tamil Nadu 1996 | 207. Sivakasi | IND | 2,699 | 1.8% | Lost · 5th |
| Tamil Nadu 1989 | 207. Sivakasi | ADKJL | 29,268 | 22.3% | Lost · 3rd |
| Tamil Nadu 1984 | 207. Sivakasi | AIADMK | 41,731 | 38.7% | Won |
| Tamil Nadu 1980 | 207. Sivakasi | AIADMK | 53,081 | 61.3% | Won |