Name in the record
KAMESHWAR PRASAD
IND·BPP·BJP·CPM·DDP·SHD·JS·SOC
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “KAMESHWAR PRASAD” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 3 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 53-year span across 13 contests, 8 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
13
1951–2004
Wins
0
Parties
8
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lok Sabha3 contests · 1962–2004 · 0 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 2004 | 62. Motihari | IND | 3,246 | 0.5% | Lost · 6th |
| Lok Sabha 1996 | 62. Motihari | IND | 1,049 | 0.2% | Lost · 10th |
| Lok Sabha 1962 | 101. Dhanbad | SOC | 8,378 | 4.2% | Lost · 5th |
| Bihar7 contests · 1962–1995 · 0 won | |||||
| Bihar 1995 | 15. Ghorasahan | IND | 10,860 | 11.2% | Lost · 3rd |
| Bihar 1995 | 168. Bhagalpur | IND | 1,107 | 1.0% | Lost · 7th |
| Bihar 1995 | 196. Nalanda | BPP | 830 | 0.7% | Lost · 10th |
| Bihar 1995 | 306. Ranchi | IND | 88 | 0.1% | Lost · 24th |
| Bihar 1995 | 324. Hussainabad | BJP | 14,749 | 17.2% | Lost · 2nd |
| Bihar 1969 | 277. Dhanbad | SHD | 266 | 0.6% | Lost · 8th |
| Bihar 1962 | 280. Jorapokhar | JS | 1,116 | 2.9% | Lost · 5th |
| Delhi1 contest · 1993–1993 · 0 won | |||||
| Delhi 1993 | 24. Mangol Puri | CPM | 814 | 1.6% | Lost · 5th |
| Uttar Pradesh2 contests · 1951–1993 · 0 won | |||||
| Uttar Pradesh 1993 | 223. Chilkahar | DDP | 553 | 0.5% | Lost · 11th |
| Uttar Pradesh 1951 | 25. Pilibhit (West) | IND | 497 | 1.7% | Lost · 7th |