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Name in the record

LALCHAND MAHTO

JDU·BJP·IND·RJD·JD·JNPSC·JNP

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “LALCHAND MAHTO” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs, a 42-year span across 7 contests, 7 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
7
1977–2019
Wins
1
Parties
7
States / UT
3
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
Jharkhand4 contests · 20052019 · 0 won
Jharkhand 201933. DumriJDU5,2192.7%Lost · 5th
Jharkhand 201433. DumriBJP45,50326.3%Lost · 2nd
Jharkhand 200933. DumriIND19,08419.3%Lost · 3rd
Jharkhand 200533. DumriRJD23,77423.6%Lost · 2nd
Lok Sabha1 contest · 19891989 · 0 won
Lok Sabha 198991. GiridihJD26,6025.5%Lost · 4th
Bihar2 contests · 19771980 · 1 won
Bihar 1980276. DumriJNPSC14,09231.1%Lost · 2nd
Bihar 1977276. DumriJNP16,86753.2%Won