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Name in the record

JAI GOPAL

IND·HMS·PSP·INC·SP

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “JAI GOPAL” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 4 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 45-year span across 8 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
8
1951–1996
Wins
2
Parties
5
States / UT
5
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
Lok Sabha1 contest · 19961996 · 0 won
Lok Sabha 1996338. AmritsarIND5800.1%Lost · 19th
Himachal Pradesh1 contest · 19901990 · 0 won
Himachal Pradesh 199019. NahanIND670.2%Lost · 7th
Haryana1 contest · 19721972 · 0 won
Haryana 197269. NarnaundHMS4000.9%Lost · 6th
Punjab3 contests · 19511962 · 0 won
Punjab 196216. JagadhriPSP10,66324.4%Lost · 3rd
Punjab 195713. JagadhriPSP28,20719.8%Lost · 3rd
Punjab 195137. MolanaSP17,99813.7%Lost · 4th
Uttar Pradesh2 contests · 19571962 · 2 won
Uttar Pradesh 1962423. HaroraINC11,33430.0%Won
Uttar Pradesh 195722. HaroraINC27,80818.2%Won