Name in the record
KANNAN, M.
Also on ballots as KANNAN. M, KANNAN M, KANNAN.M, KANNAN M. …
IND·SASAP·CPM·BSP·AMI·ADKJR·AIADMK
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “KANNAN, M.” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 46-year span across 21 contests, 7 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
21
1980–2026
Wins
1
Parties
7
States / UT
2
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.