Election
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.

ElectionConstituencyPartyVotesShareResult
Lok Sabha1 contest · 20042004 · 0 won
Lok Sabha 2004120. Karol BaghIND2990.1%Lost · 7th
Haryana2 contests · 19721987 · 0 won
Haryana 198712. NilokheriIND690.1%Lost · 18th
Haryana 197270. HansiIND1,0122.5%Lost · 6th
Uttar Pradesh1 contest · 19851985 · 0 won
Uttar Pradesh 1985388. GhaziabadIND650.1%Lost · 25th
Punjab3 contests · 19511962 · 2 won
Punjab 196293. Ludhiana CityJS14,19936.2%Lost · 2nd
Punjab 1957101. Ludhiana CityBJS14,45241.9%Won
Punjab 19516. HansiINC13,73847.3%Won
Himachal Pradesh1 contest · 19511951 · 0 won
Himachal Pradesh 195118. Joginder NagarKMPP72214.8%Lost · 2nd