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Name in the record

KASTURI LAL

Also on ballots as Kasturi Lal

BMUP·IND·BJP·SAD·HMS·INC·JNP·BKD

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “KASTURI LAL” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 4 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 63-year span across 14 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
14
1951–2014
Wins
2
Parties
8
States / UT
5
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.

ElectionConstituencyPartyVotesShareResult
Jammu & Kashmir2 contests · 1996–2014 · 0 won
Jammu & Kashmir 201465. KathuaBMUP2120.2%Lost · 14th
Jammu & Kashmir 199663. BaniBJP2,59515.2%Lost · 4th
Lok Sabha2 contests · 1989–1999 · 0 won
Lok Sabha 1999338. AmritsarIND1,3780.2%Lost · 8th
Lok Sabha 1989427. AmethiHMS8030.2%Lost · 19th
Punjab5 contests · 1951–1992 · 2 won
Punjab 1992111. BhatindaSAD4,03410.2%Lost · 4th
Punjab 1985111. BhatindaSAD26,67638.9%Won
Punjab 197717. Amritsar WestIND2090.4%Lost · 6th
Punjab 196228. RajaundIND3,5746.2%Lost · 3rd
Punjab 195129. AsandhINC16,33241.2%Won
Haryana4 contests · 1968–1987 · 0 won
Haryana 198717. PanipatIND21,50227.8%Lost · 2nd
Haryana 198217. PanipatINC25,55545.8%Lost · 2nd
Haryana 197717. PanipatINC9,72123.3%Lost · 2nd
Haryana 196822. PundriBKD2,6918.6%Lost · 3rd
Uttar Pradesh1 contest · 1980–1980 · 0 won
Uttar Pradesh 198015. HaldwaniJNP10,38515.4%Lost · 2nd