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Name in the record

ISHWAR DAYAL

UPUDF·MC·IND·BSPR·BJP·BKUS·BSP·BKD·BJS·JS

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “ISHWAR DAYAL” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 45-year span across 14 contests, 10 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
14
1962–2007
Wins
1
Parties
10
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.

ElectionConstituencyPartyVotesShareResult
Uttar Pradesh10 contests · 1962–2007 · 1 won
Uttar Pradesh 2007196. NizamabadUPUDF5620.4%Lost · 11th
Uttar Pradesh 2002202. MubarakpurMC1,2480.8%Lost · 7th
Uttar Pradesh 1996219. Muhammadabad GohnaBSPR1,0970.8%Lost · 6th
Uttar Pradesh 1993220. MauIND1160.1%Lost · 25th
Uttar Pradesh 1993408. Muzaffar NagarIND130.0%Lost · 41th
Uttar Pradesh 1991219. Muhammadabad GohnaBSP12,28515.7%Lost · 3rd
Uttar Pradesh 1980343. AliganjIND930.1%Lost · 7th
Uttar Pradesh 1969392. MuradnagarBKD26,93438.7%Won
Uttar Pradesh 1969406. KandhlaBJS3,8984.9%Lost · 4th
Uttar Pradesh 1962396. GhaziabadJS15,60934.0%Lost · 2nd
Lok Sabha3 contests · 1989–1996 · 0 won
Lok Sabha 1996418. GarhwalIND1,4270.3%Lost · 15th
Lok Sabha 1991466. EtahBKUS2,2050.5%Lost · 7th
Lok Sabha 1989473. EtahIND1,8490.4%Lost · 12th
Haryana1 contest · 1991–1991 · 0 won
Haryana 199123. PehowaBJP5,1946.8%Lost · 5th