Name in the record
DEVI DASS
BJP·IND·JNP·PSP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “DEVI DASS” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 4 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 43-year span across 11 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
11
1957–2000
Wins
3
Parties
4
States / UT
4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haryana5 contests · 1977–2000 · 3 won | |||||
| Haryana 2000 | 41. Sonepat | BJP | 26,856 | 31.7% | Lost · 2nd |
| Haryana 1991 | 41. Sonepat | BJP | 11,715 | 16.9% | Lost · 3rd |
| Haryana 1987 | 41. Sonepat | BJP | 34,962 | 53.2% | Won |
| Haryana 1982 | 41. Sonepat | BJP | 24,890 | 45.8% | Won |
| Haryana 1977 | 41. Sonepat | JNP | 26,456 | 60.4% | Won |
| Jammu & Kashmir2 contests · 1962–1996 · 0 won | |||||
| Jammu & Kashmir 1996 | 77. Marh | IND | 2,090 | 6.2% | Lost · 5th |
| Jammu & Kashmir 1962 | 26. Ramban | PSP | 2,981 | 13.6% | Lost · 2nd |
| Punjab3 contests · 1957–1985 · 0 won | |||||
| Punjab 1985 | 19. Amritsar South | IND | 38 | 0.1% | Lost · 11th |
| Punjab 1985 | 41. Kapurthala | IND | 6,385 | 12.8% | Lost · 4th |
| Punjab 1957 | 101. Ludhiana City | IND | 987 | 2.9% | Lost · 4th |
| Madhya Pradesh1 contest · 1962–1962 · 0 won | |||||
| Madhya Pradesh 1962 | 222. Berasia | PSP | 745 | 3.2% | Lost · 5th |