Name in the record
DAYA SHANKAR
ARVP·NLP·NCP·IND·SPSP·JD·BJP·INC·JNP·SOP·SOC·SWA·RRP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “DAYA SHANKAR” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 63-year span across 32 contests, 13 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
32
1951–2014
Wins
2
Parties
13
States / UT
2
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.