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Name in the record

DHANESHWAR MAHTO

B·BMTRP·PMS·JVC·JMM·IND

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “DHANESHWAR MAHTO” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs, a 42-year span across 7 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
7
1977–2019
Wins
0
Parties
6
States / UT
3
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.

ElectionConstituencyPartyVotesShareResult
Lok Sabha1 contest · 20192019 · 0 won
Lok Sabha 201948. MadhubaniB6,3220.7%Lost · 8th
Bihar4 contests · 19772015 · 0 won
Bihar 201535. BisfiBMTRP9840.6%Lost · 12th
Bihar 1985266. BarkagaonJMM4,6336.2%Lost · 3rd
Bihar 1985278. BermoIND6910.9%Lost · 7th
Bihar 1977124. RupauliIND2,8715.9%Lost · 5th
Jharkhand2 contests · 20052014 · 0 won
Jharkhand 201432. GiridihPMS7380.5%Lost · 14th
Jharkhand 200522. BarkagaonJVC1,2800.8%Lost · 13th