Name in the record
K. SHANKER
Also on ballots as K.SHANKER, K SHANKER, K . SHANKER
CPM·JDS·INC·PSP·IND·BJS
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “K. SHANKER” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 3 different states/UTs, a 46-year span across 7 contests, 6 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
1967–2013
Wins
0
Parties
6
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karnataka1 contest · 2013–2013 · 0 won | |||||
| Karnataka 2013 | 118. Byndoor | CPM | 2,960 | 2.0% | Lost · 4th |
| Andhra Pradesh1 contest · 1999–1999 · 0 won | |||||
| Andhra Pradesh 1999 | 209. Secunderabad | JDS | 946 | 0.7% | Lost · 5th |
| Lok Sabha1 contest · 1967–1967 · 0 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 1967 | 432. Khalilabad | INC | 1,02,844 | 37.3% | Lost · 2nd |
| Uttar Pradesh4 contests · 1967–1967 · 0 won | |||||
| Uttar Pradesh 1967 | 120. Birapur | PSP | 624 | 1.6% | Lost · 6th |
| Uttar Pradesh 1967 | 232. Balia | IND | 1,091 | 2.4% | Lost · 10th |
| Uttar Pradesh 1967 | 241. Saidpur | BJS | 11,318 | 19.8% | Lost · 2nd |
| Uttar Pradesh 1967 | 295. Kanpur Cantonment | IND | 232 | 0.5% | Lost · 9th |