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Name in the record

LAKSHMAN CHANDRA SETH

Also on ballots as Lakshman Chandra Seth

INC·CPM

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “LAKSHMAN CHANDRA SETH” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 47-year span across 8 contests — 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.

Also recorded as

Other spellings of what is very likely the same person — names are stored as free text, so word order, initials and joined words split a career across pages.

Ballot lines
8
1972–2019
Wins
4
Parties
2
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.

ElectionConstituencyPartyVotesShareResult
Lok Sabha4 contests · 19982019 · 2 won
Lok Sabha 2019531. TamlukINC16,0011.1%Lost · 4th
Lok Sabha 2009531. TamlukCPM4,64,70640.5%Lost · 2nd
Lok Sabha 1999531. TamlukCPM4,55,16850.0%Won
Lok Sabha 1998531. TamlukCPM4,77,51651.2%Won
West Bengal4 contests · 19721987 · 2 won
West Bengal 1987205. SutahataCPM62,47755.3%Won
West Bengal 1982205. SutahataCPM47,35252.4%Won
West Bengal 1977205. SutahataCPM19,15134.7%Lost · 2nd
West Bengal 1972193. SutahataCPM13,18225.8%Lost · 2nd