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.
| Election | Constituency | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lok Sabha1 contest · 1996–1996 · 0 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 1996 | 338. Amritsar | IND | 580 | 0.1% | Lost · 19th |
| Himachal Pradesh1 contest · 1990–1990 · 0 won | |||||
| Himachal Pradesh 1990 | 19. Nahan | IND | 67 | 0.2% | Lost · 7th |
| Haryana1 contest · 1972–1972 · 0 won | |||||
| Haryana 1972 | 69. Narnaund | HMS | 400 | 0.9% | Lost · 6th |
| Punjab3 contests · 1951–1962 · 0 won | |||||
| Punjab 1962 | 16. Jagadhri | PSP | 10,663 | 24.4% | Lost · 3rd |
| Punjab 1957 | 13. Jagadhri | PSP | 28,207 | 19.8% | Lost · 3rd |
| Punjab 1951 | 37. Molana | SP | 17,998 | 13.7% | Lost · 4th |
| Uttar Pradesh2 contests · 1957–1962 · 2 won | |||||
| Uttar Pradesh 1962 | 423. Harora | INC | 11,334 | 30.0% | Won |
| Uttar Pradesh 1957 | 22. Harora | INC | 27,808 | 18.2% | Won |