Name in the record
BHAWANI SHANKER
IND·JS·INC
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “BHAWANI SHANKER” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 40-year span across 6 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
6
1951–1991
Wins
1
Parties
3
States / UT
3
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.
| Election | Constituency | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lok Sabha1 contest · 1991–1991 · 0 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 1991 | 338. Bayana | IND | 1,471 | 0.4% | Lost · 6th |
| Uttar Pradesh2 contests · 1951–1985 · 0 won | |||||
| Uttar Pradesh 1985 | 373. Aligarh | IND | 133 | 0.2% | Lost · 14th |
| Uttar Pradesh 1951 | 125. Chibramau East Cum Farrukhabad East | IND | 1,196 | 1.0% | Lost · 11th |
| Rajasthan3 contests · 1951–1962 · 1 won | |||||
| Rajasthan 1962 | 135. Raniwara | JS | 1,927 | 10.9% | Lost · 3rd |
| Rajasthan 1957 | 60. Kapasin | INC | 15,694 | 29.4% | Won |
| Rajasthan 1951 | 95. Badi Sadri Kapasin | INC | 10,096 | 35.1% | Lost · 2nd |