Name in the record
DILIP GHOSH
Also on ballots as Dilip Ghosh
BJP·LKD
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “DILIP GHOSH” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 44-year span across 7 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
7
1982–2026
Wins
2
Parties
2
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.
| Election | Constituency | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Bengal5 contests · 1982–2026 · 1 won | |||||
| West Bengal 2026 | 224. Kharagpur Sadar | BJP | 89,885 | 55.6% | Won |
| West Bengal 2026 | 286. Bolpur | BJP | 1,01,727 | 41.3% | Lost · 2nd |
| West Bengal 2016 | 286. Bolpur | BJP | 19,553 | 9.5% | Lost · 3rd |
| West Bengal 1987 | 251. Bankura | LKD | 742 | 0.7% | Lost · 3rd |
| West Bengal 1982 | 251. Bankura | LKD | 1,542 | 1.8% | Lost · 3rd |
| Lok Sabha2 contests · 2019–2024 · 1 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 2024 | 540. Bardhaman-Durgapur | BJP | 5,82,686 | 38.8% | Lost · 2nd |
| Lok Sabha 2019 | 535. Medinipur | BJP | 6,85,433 | 48.6% | Won |