Name in the record
KAILASH
Also on ballots as Kailash
JDU·BJP·AAPP·BSP·IND·RVLP·SP·SSD·BSA·AD·RLD·LJP·UPUDF·RJD·RTKP·INC·BHJS·BSPR·KVMP·JD·JP·LKDB·SWA·BKD·BJS·MAP·PSP·JS
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “KAILASH” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 6 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 71-year span across 98 contests, 28 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
98
1951–2022
Wins
5
Parties
28
States / UT
7
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.