Name in the record
DURGA CHAND
LKD·BLD·BJS·JS·IND
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “DURGA CHAND” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 3 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, 5 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
1957–1985
Wins
3
Parties
5
States / UT
4
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 Pradesh3 contests · 1972–1985 · 2 won | |||||
| Himachal Pradesh 1985 | 41. Thural | LKD | 12,775 | 62.3% | Won |
| Himachal Pradesh 1982 | 41. Thural | LKD | 4,337 | 21.4% | Lost · 3rd |
| Himachal Pradesh 1972 | 47. Sulah | BJS | 4,765 | 52.3% | Won |
| Lok Sabha1 contest · 1977–1977 · 1 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 1977 | 163. Kangra | BLD | 1,57,832 | 53.2% | Won |
| Punjab2 contests · 1957–1962 · 0 won | |||||
| Punjab 1962 | 4. Kangra | JS | 11,131 | 36.2% | Lost · 2nd |
| Punjab 1957 | 4. Kangra | IND | 7,267 | 24.6% | Lost · 2nd |
| Rajasthan1 contest · 1957–1957 · 0 won | |||||
| Rajasthan 1957 | 96. Kharchi | IND | 2,423 | 3.7% | Lost · 8th |