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Name in the record

GORI SHANKAR

IND·NCP·HVP·INC·SP·BJS

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “GORI SHANKAR” 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 8 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
8
1951–2003
Wins
1
Parties
6
States / UT
4

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
Madhya Pradesh2 contests · 19902003 · 0 won
Madhya Pradesh 2003182. Indore-IiiIND1330.2%Lost · 7th
Madhya Pradesh 199017. Lashkar WestIND750.2%Lost · 15th
Rajasthan3 contests · 19512003 · 0 won
Rajasthan 2003102. KekriNCP2,2642.3%Lost · 5th
Rajasthan 195111. TijaraSP3,06711.5%Lost · 3rd
Rajasthan 1951107. KhamnorBJS2,03616.8%Lost · 3rd
Haryana2 contests · 19822000 · 0 won
Haryana 200018. SambhalkaHVP4210.5%Lost · 7th
Haryana 198245. NarwanaIND12,62020.4%Lost · 3rd
Jammu & Kashmir1 contest · 19831983 · 1 won
Jammu & Kashmir 198357. Bari BrahminanINC15,72152.9%Won