Name in the record
GANESH DUTT
BJP·IND·ABMSKP·SHS·INC·SP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “GANESH 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 52-year span across 9 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
9
1951–2003
Wins
1
Parties
6
States / UT
5
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 · 1982–2003 · 1 won | |||||
| Himachal Pradesh 2003 | 8. Simla | BJP | 9,283 | 29.4% | Lost · 3rd |
| Himachal Pradesh 1985 | 30. Chintpurni | INC | 9,864 | 42.3% | Won |
| Himachal Pradesh 1982 | 8. Simla | IND | 17 | 0.1% | Lost · 17th |
| Uttarakhand1 contest · 2002–2002 · 0 won | |||||
| Uttarakhand 2002 | 43. Kanda | IND | 530 | 1.8% | Lost · 11th |
| Lok Sabha2 contests · 1996–1996 · 0 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 1996 | 123. Karol Bagh | ABMSKP | 96 | 0.0% | Lost · 38th |
| Lok Sabha 1996 | 235. Bilaspur | IND | 2,356 | 0.4% | Lost · 13th |
| Uttar Pradesh2 contests · 1951–1993 · 0 won | |||||
| Uttar Pradesh 1993 | 242. Varanasi South | SHS | 483 | 0.5% | Lost · 5th |
| Uttar Pradesh 1951 | 131. Kanpur City South | SP | 1,789 | 7.4% | Lost · 4th |
| Bihar1 contest · 1985–1985 · 0 won | |||||
| Bihar 1985 | 228. Ramgarh | IND | 1,542 | 2.0% | Lost · 6th |