Name in the record
M. MEHTA
IND·DMK·SWA
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “M. MEHTA” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs — 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
4
1967–1989
Wins
0
Parties
3
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.
| Election | Constituency | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tamil Nadu2 contests · 1977–1989 · 0 won | |||||
| Tamil Nadu 1989 | 131. Periyakulam | IND | 561 | 0.5% | Lost · 5th |
| Tamil Nadu 1977 | 131. Periyakulam | DMK | 13,069 | 19.0% | Lost · 3rd |
| Gujarat1 contest · 1967–1967 · 0 won | |||||
| Gujarat 1967 | 26. Jamjodhpur | IND | 449 | 1.5% | Lost · 3rd |
| Lok Sabha1 contest · 1967–1967 · 0 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 1967 | 268. Bombay North West | SWA | 62,396 | 15.9% | Lost · 3rd |