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Name in the record

L. KARUNAKARAN

Also on ballots as L.KARUNAKARAN

IND·BJP

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “L. KARUNAKARAN” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year — 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
1996–2016
Wins
0
Parties
2
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
Tamil Nadu2 contests · 20112016 · 0 won
Tamil Nadu 201637. KancheepuramIND900.0%Lost · 16th
Tamil Nadu 201137. KancheepuramIND1370.1%Lost · 14th
Puducherry2 contests · 19962011 · 0 won
Puducherry 201112. KalapetBJP2140.9%Lost · 3rd
Puducherry 199621. LawspetBJP3591.2%Lost · 4th