Name in the record
C. KANNAN
Also on ballots as C.KANNAN
IND·INC·CPM·CPIM
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “C. KANNAN” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 3 different states/UTs, a 56-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
1965–2021
Wins
3
Parties
4
States / UT
3
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 Nadu1 contest · 2021–2021 · 0 won | |||||
| Tamil Nadu 2021 | 185. Tiruppattur | IND | 68 | 0.0% | Lost · 23th |
| Karnataka2 contests · 1985–1994 · 1 won | |||||
| Karnataka 1994 | 84. Shanthinagar | IND | 8,185 | 11.8% | Lost · 4th |
| Karnataka 1985 | 84. Shanthinagar | INC | 20,090 | 40.9% | Won |
| Kerala3 contests · 1965–1970 · 2 won | |||||
| Kerala 1970 | 5. Edakkad | CPM | 27,559 | 43.3% | Lost · 2nd |
| Kerala 1967 | 5. Edakkad | CPM | 32,563 | 59.0% | Won |
| Kerala 1965 | 5. Edakkad | CPIM | 30,716 | 57.1% | Won |