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.
- SETH LAKSHMAN CHANDRA · 3 contests · 1991–2004
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.
| Election | Constituency | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lok Sabha4 contests · 1998–2019 · 2 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 2019 | 531. Tamluk | INC | 16,001 | 1.1% | Lost · 4th |
| Lok Sabha 2009 | 531. Tamluk | CPM | 4,64,706 | 40.5% | Lost · 2nd |
| Lok Sabha 1999 | 531. Tamluk | CPM | 4,55,168 | 50.0% | Won |
| Lok Sabha 1998 | 531. Tamluk | CPM | 4,77,516 | 51.2% | Won |
| West Bengal4 contests · 1972–1987 · 2 won | |||||
| West Bengal 1987 | 205. Sutahata | CPM | 62,477 | 55.3% | Won |
| West Bengal 1982 | 205. Sutahata | CPM | 47,352 | 52.4% | Won |
| West Bengal 1977 | 205. Sutahata | CPM | 19,151 | 34.7% | Lost · 2nd |
| West Bengal 1972 | 193. Sutahata | CPM | 13,182 | 25.8% | Lost · 2nd |