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Name in the record

K. S. PATEL

Also on ballots as K.S. PATEL

JD·IND·INC·SSP·BJS

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “K. S. PATEL” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 3 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, 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
5
1967–1993
Wins
0
Parties
5
States / UT
3

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 Pradesh1 contest · 19931993 · 0 won
Madhya Pradesh 1993208. GotegaonJD7581.0%Lost · 4th
Maharashtra2 contests · 19671980 · 0 won
Maharashtra 198044. KandivaliIND880.2%Lost · 8th
Maharashtra 196765. YeolaBJS12,81130.0%Lost · 2nd
Gujarat2 contests · 19671967 · 0 won
Gujarat 196773. JotanaINC16,33633.0%Lost · 2nd
Gujarat 1967154. ChorasiSSP1,0792.7%Lost · 5th