Name in the record
DURGA DUTT
BJP·INC·LKD·IND
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “DURGA DUTT” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 4 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 50-year span across 9 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
9
1962–2012
Wins
2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Himachal Pradesh4 contests · 1985–2012 · 1 won | |||||
| Himachal Pradesh 2012 | 33. Mandi | BJP | 16,936 | 35.0% | Lost · 2nd |
| Himachal Pradesh 2003 | 68. Mandi | INC | 11,426 | 24.9% | Lost · 2nd |
| Himachal Pradesh 1998 | 68. Mandi | INC | 6,285 | 15.8% | Lost · 3rd |
| Himachal Pradesh 1985 | 68. Mandi | INC | 12,166 | 50.9% | Won |
| Haryana1 contest · 1987–1987 · 1 won | |||||
| Haryana 1987 | 47. Rajond | LKD | 38,384 | 64.8% | Won |
| Jammu & Kashmir1 contest · 1987–1987 · 0 won | |||||
| Jammu & Kashmir 1987 | 54. Chenani Ghordi | IND | 171 | 0.6% | Lost · 7th |
| Rajasthan3 contests · 1962–1985 · 0 won | |||||
| Rajasthan 1985 | 20. Churu | IND | 60 | 0.1% | Lost · 20th |
| Rajasthan 1972 | 18. Churu | IND | 177 | 0.4% | Lost · 7th |
| Rajasthan 1962 | 164. Churu | IND | 1,358 | 4.5% | Lost · 5th |