Name in the record
GANESAN, A.
Also on ballots as GANESAN A, GANESAN.A, GANESAN A., GANESAN.A. …
IND·BSP·KMDK·DMDK·MDMK·TMM·DMK
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “GANESAN, A.” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 41-year span across 18 contests, 7 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
18
1980–2021
Wins
0
Parties
7
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.