Name in the record
DAYANIDHI NAIK
BJP·INC·SWA·GP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “DAYANIDHI NAIK” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 63-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
1951–2014
Wins
3
Parties
4
States / UT
1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Odisha 2014 | 80. Bhawanipatna | BJP | 32,449 | 21.7% | Lost · 3rd |
| Odisha 1985 | 99. Bhawanipatna | INC | 15,729 | 44.1% | Lost · 2nd |
| Odisha 1980 | 99. Bhawanipatna | INC | 20,435 | 72.0% | Won |
| Odisha 1977 | 99. Bhawanipatna | INC | 13,239 | 52.7% | Won |
| Odisha 1974 | 96. Dharamgarh | SWA | 17,794 | 58.8% | Won |
| Odisha 1951 | 20. Junagarh | GP | 54,389 | 43.6% | Lost · 2nd |