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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.

ElectionConstituencyPartyVotesShareResult
Lok Sabha1 contest · 19911991 · 0 won
Lok Sabha 1991338. BayanaIND1,4710.4%Lost · 6th
Uttar Pradesh2 contests · 19511985 · 0 won
Uttar Pradesh 1985373. AligarhIND1330.2%Lost · 14th
Uttar Pradesh 1951125. Chibramau East Cum Farrukhabad EastIND1,1961.0%Lost · 11th
Rajasthan3 contests · 19511962 · 1 won
Rajasthan 1962135. RaniwaraJS1,92710.9%Lost · 3rd
Rajasthan 195760. KapasinINC15,69429.4%Won
Rajasthan 195195. Badi Sadri KapasinINC10,09635.1%Lost · 2nd