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Name in the record

BHOLA PASWAN

PBI·IND·BMUP·BHNP·RASED·NCP·INC

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “BHOLA PASWAN” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs, a 69-year span across 16 contests, 7 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
16
1951–2020
Wins
2
Parties
7
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.