Name in the record
D. RAMACHANDRAN
AIADMK·MDMK·DMK·BJS·INC
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “D. RAMACHANDRAN” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 3 different states/UTs, 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.
Ballot lines
8
1967–2001
Wins
4
Parties
5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puducherry5 contests · 1969–2001 · 4 won | |||||
| Puducherry 2001 | 15. Mannadipeth | AIADMK | 8,939 | 55.3% | Won |
| Puducherry 1991 | 15. Mannadipeth | DMK | 6,874 | 46.3% | Lost · 2nd |
| Puducherry 1985 | 15. Mannadipeth | DMK | 6,383 | 56.5% | Won |
| Puducherry 1980 | 15. Mannadipeth | DMK | 5,598 | 61.1% | Won |
| Puducherry 1969 | 12. Nettapacom | DMK | 3,545 | 51.1% | Won |
| Tamil Nadu2 contests · 1967–1996 · 0 won | |||||
| Tamil Nadu 1996 | 225. Tiruchendur | MDMK | 3,961 | 4.0% | Lost · 4th |
| Tamil Nadu 1967 | 60. Bhuvanagiri | INC | 28,234 | 41.0% | Lost · 2nd |
| Karnataka1 contest · 1972–1972 · 0 won | |||||
| Karnataka 1972 | 87. Channapatna | BJS | 1,304 | 2.4% | Lost · 4th |