Name in the record
LAJPAT RAI
IND·JS·BJS·KMPP·INC
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “LAJPAT RAI” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 4 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 53-year span across 8 contests, 5 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
8
1951–2004
Wins
2
Parties
5
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.
| Election | Constituency | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lok Sabha1 contest · 2004–2004 · 0 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 2004 | 120. Karol Bagh | IND | 299 | 0.1% | Lost · 7th |
| Haryana2 contests · 1972–1987 · 0 won | |||||
| Haryana 1987 | 12. Nilokheri | IND | 69 | 0.1% | Lost · 18th |
| Haryana 1972 | 70. Hansi | IND | 1,012 | 2.5% | Lost · 6th |
| Uttar Pradesh1 contest · 1985–1985 · 0 won | |||||
| Uttar Pradesh 1985 | 388. Ghaziabad | IND | 65 | 0.1% | Lost · 25th |
| Punjab3 contests · 1951–1962 · 2 won | |||||
| Punjab 1962 | 93. Ludhiana City | JS | 14,199 | 36.2% | Lost · 2nd |
| Punjab 1957 | 101. Ludhiana City | BJS | 14,452 | 41.9% | Won |
| Punjab 1951 | 6. Hansi | INC | 13,738 | 47.3% | Won |
| Himachal Pradesh1 contest · 1951–1951 · 0 won | |||||
| Himachal Pradesh 1951 | 18. Joginder Nagar | KMPP | 722 | 14.8% | Lost · 2nd |