ElectionLens
Name in the record

GANGADHAR NAYAK

KJP·BJP·JDS·INCU

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “GANGADHAR NAYAK” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs — 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
5
1980–2013
Wins
0
Parties
4
States / UT
2

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.

ElectionConstituencyPartyVotesShareResult
Karnataka3 contests · 20042013 · 0 won
Karnataka 201355. ManviKJP14,46511.9%Lost · 3rd
Karnataka 200855. ManviBJP35,77133.5%Lost · 2nd
Karnataka 200423. ManviJDS20,62320.7%Lost · 3rd
Odisha2 contests · 19802000 · 0 won
Odisha 200087. ChitrakondaBJP10,99316.9%Lost · 3rd
Odisha 1980104. PhulbariINCU1,1604.3%Lost · 3rd