Name in the record
DEWAN CHAND
BSP·CPI·BJP·IND·JNP·INC
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “DEWAN CHAND” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 5 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 41-year span across 11 contests, 6 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
11
1957–1998
Wins
2
Parties
6
States / UT
6
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.
| Election | Constituency | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Himachal Pradesh2 contests · 1990–1998 · 0 won | |||||
| Himachal Pradesh 1998 | 66. Joginder Nagar | BSP | 862 | 2.3% | Lost · 5th |
| Himachal Pradesh 1990 | 67. Darang | BSP | 164 | 0.5% | Lost · 5th |
| Jammu & Kashmir3 contests · 1977–1987 · 0 won | |||||
| Jammu & Kashmir 1987 | 64. Marh | CPI | 1,230 | 3.7% | Lost · 4th |
| Jammu & Kashmir 1983 | 65. Akhnoor | BJP | 2,621 | 9.2% | Lost · 3rd |
| Jammu & Kashmir 1977 | 65. Akhnoor | JNP | 4,342 | 18.9% | Lost · 3rd |
| Haryana1 contest · 1977–1977 · 0 won | |||||
| Haryana 1977 | 17. Panipat | IND | 207 | 0.5% | Lost · 5th |
| Punjab2 contests · 1972–1977 · 0 won | |||||
| Punjab 1977 | 11. Sujanpur | IND | 158 | 0.4% | Lost · 6th |
| Punjab 1972 | 100. Bhatinda | IND | 14,764 | 33.9% | Lost · 2nd |
| Delhi1 contest · 1972–1972 · 0 won | |||||
| Delhi 1972 | 42. Ramnagar | IND | 137 | 0.6% | Lost · 5th |
| Lok Sabha2 contests · 1957–1962 · 2 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 1962 | 345. Gurdaspur | INC | 1,38,907 | 48.1% | Won |
| Lok Sabha 1957 | 276. Gurdaspur | INC | 1,00,911 | 40.3% | Won |