Name in the record
GHANSHYAM MAHTO
IND·FBL·INC
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “GHANSHYAM MAHTO” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs, a 40-year span across 7 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
7
1969–2009
Wins
1
Parties
3
States / UT
3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jharkhand1 contest · 2009–2009 · 0 won | |||||
| Jharkhand 2009 | 12. Jarmundi | IND | 1,383 | 1.2% | Lost · 11th |
| Lok Sabha3 contests · 1971–1980 · 0 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 1980 | 96. Ranchi | FBL | 26,025 | 9.4% | Lost · 4th |
| Lok Sabha 1977 | 108. Ranchi | IND | 22,721 | 8.5% | Lost · 3rd |
| Lok Sabha 1971 | 104. Ranchi | FBL | 12,373 | 6.7% | Lost · 4th |
| Bihar3 contests · 1969–1977 · 1 won | |||||
| Bihar 1977 | 293. Ichagarh | INC | 1,801 | 6.6% | Lost · 6th |
| Bihar 1972 | 294. Ichagarh | FBL | 7,560 | 21.7% | Lost · 2nd |
| Bihar 1969 | 294. Ichagarh | FBL | 9,712 | 35.4% | Won |