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Name in the record

LAXMI SHANKAR

CSP·IND·LKD

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “LAXMI SHANKAR” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs, a 41-year span across 6 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.

Ballot lines
6
1957–1998
Wins
0
Parties
3
States / UT
2

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
Madhya Pradesh1 contest · 19981998 · 0 won
Madhya Pradesh 1998135. KasdolCSP4750.5%Lost · 6th
Uttar Pradesh5 contests · 19571993 · 0 won
Uttar Pradesh 199328. SambhalIND720.0%Lost · 23th
Uttar Pradesh 1991119. BirapurLKD7460.9%Lost · 7th
Uttar Pradesh 1989120. PattiIND6420.7%Lost · 10th
Uttar Pradesh 1969325. HamirpurIND1,7622.9%Lost · 6th
Uttar Pradesh 1957247. ManiramIND9262.2%Lost · 5th