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Name in the record

CHANDRA SHEKHAR YADAV

IND·SP·JDU·RJD·JD

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “CHANDRA SHEKHAR YADAV” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 4 different states/UTs, a 45-year span across 9 contests, 5 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.

Also recorded as

Other spellings of what is very likely the same person — names are stored as free text, so word order, initials and joined words split a career across pages.

Ballot lines
9
1980–2025
Wins
0
Parties
5
States / UT
5
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
Bihar4 contests · 1980–2025 · 0 won
Bihar 2025214. ArwalIND5660.3%Lost · 13th
Bihar 2000159. JarmundiRJD13,53713.2%Lost · 5th
Bihar 198535. ManjhiIND3120.4%Lost · 13th
Bihar 1980111. KishanpurIND4,2145.7%Lost · 6th
Uttar Pradesh1 contest · 2022–2022 · 0 won
Uttar Pradesh 2022380. MughalsaraiSP87,29536.2%Lost · 2nd
Jharkhand1 contest · 2014–2014 · 0 won
Jharkhand 201412. JarmundiJDU2,4691.6%Lost · 9th
Rajasthan1 contest · 2013–2013 · 0 won
Rajasthan 201359. TijaraJDU4,8783.4%Lost · 4th
Lok Sabha2 contests · 1984–1998 · 0 won
Lok Sabha 199888. BankaJD27,1173.9%Lost · 3rd
Lok Sabha 198451. MaharajganjIND2,6980.7%Lost · 5th