Name in the record
GANESH SHANKAR VIDYARTHI
CPM·CPI
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “GANESH SHANKAR VIDYARTHI” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 52-year span across 6 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
6
1957–2009
Wins
1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lok Sabha1 contest · 2009–2009 · 0 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 2009 | 98. Nawada | CPM | 14,840 | 2.6% | Lost · 9th |
| Bihar5 contests · 1957–2000 · 1 won | |||||
| Bihar 2000 | 261. Hisua | CPM | 23,577 | 23.7% | Lost · 2nd |
| Bihar 1980 | 257. Nawada | CPM | 39,681 | 38.8% | Won |
| Bihar 1969 | 254. Nawada | CPM | 18,038 | 28.4% | Lost · 2nd |
| Bihar 1962 | 258. Rajauli | CPI | 6,202 | 24.8% | Lost · 2nd |
| Bihar 1957 | 217. Rajauli | CPI | 4,973 | 23.4% | Lost · 3rd |