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Name in the record

BENJAMIN MURMU

IND·JD·JNP

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “BENJAMIN MURMU” 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
4
1977–2005
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
Jharkhand1 contest · 20052005 · 0 won
Jharkhand 20052. BorioIND6810.6%Lost · 15th
Bihar3 contests · 19771990 · 1 won
Bihar 1990148. BorioJD2,8724.2%Lost · 6th
Bihar 1985148. BorioIND4,5089.0%Lost · 3rd
Bihar 1977148. BorioJNP21,54779.9%Won