EElectionLens
Name in the record

KANHU SAMANT

IND·AJSUP·AJSU·JKPP

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “KANHU SAMANT” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs — 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
4
2000–2014
Wins
0
Parties
4
States / UT
2

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
Jharkhand3 contests · 20052014 · 0 won
Jharkhand 201445. GhatshilaIND12,1947.5%Lost · 4th
Jharkhand 200945. GhatsilaAJSUP10,9788.7%Lost · 4th
Jharkhand 200545. GhatsilaAJSU15,18711.9%Lost · 4th
Bihar1 contest · 20002000 · 0 won
Bihar 2000288. GhatsilaJKPP2,7772.7%Lost · 5th