Name in the record
M. LAL
Also on ballots as M.LAL, M . LAL
IND·SSP·INC·RPI·SWA·BJS·JAC·CPM·CPI·PSP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “M. LAL” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 8 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, 10 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
83
1967–1989
Wins
11
Parties
10
States / UT
9
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.