Name in the record
GANGA PRASAD
ASPKR·IND·K·JM·RPD·RTKP·SHS·KMGR·BSP·INC·SSD·BKD·JP·LKD·JNP·BJP·SOP·NCO·BJS·SSP·HMS·PSP·JS
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “GANGA PRASAD” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 5 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 71-year span across 64 contests, 23 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
64
1951–2022
Wins
8
Parties
23
States / UT
6
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.