Name in the record
GOURI SHANKAR
BTP·IND·JNPSC·BJP·INC
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “GOURI SHANKAR” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 3 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 67-year span across 7 contests, 5 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
7
1951–2018
Wins
1
Parties
5
States / UT
4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rajasthan2 contests · 1990–2018 · 0 won | |||||
| Rajasthan 2018 | 147. Pindwara Abu | BTP | 5,137 | 3.7% | Lost · 4th |
| Rajasthan 1990 | 28. Jhunjhunu | IND | 149 | 0.1% | Lost · 10th |
| Madhya Pradesh3 contests · 1980–1990 · 1 won | |||||
| Madhya Pradesh 1990 | 269. Mhow | IND | 135 | 0.2% | Lost · 8th |
| Madhya Pradesh 1980 | 4. Joura | JNPSC | 1,734 | 3.7% | Lost · 4th |
| Madhya Pradesh 1980 | 242. Sanchi | BJP | 16,988 | 48.8% | Won |
| Jammu & Kashmir1 contest · 1977–1977 · 0 won | |||||
| Jammu & Kashmir 1977 | 57. Bari Brahminan | INC | 7,521 | 36.3% | Lost · 2nd |
| Lok Sabha1 contest · 1951–1951 · 0 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 1951 | 250. Sangrur | IND | 8,002 | 3.8% | Lost · 6th |