Name in the record
M. S. KRISHNAN
Also on ballots as M.S. KRISHNAN, M.S.KRISHNAN
IND·CPI·CPM·INC
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “M. S. KRISHNAN” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 62-year span across 11 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
11
1957–2019
Wins
4
Parties
4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lok Sabha3 contests · 1962–2019 · 0 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 2019 | 365. Arakkonam | IND | 1,322 | 0.1% | Lost · 12th |
| Lok Sabha 1980 | 171. Bangalore South | CPI | 26,999 | 6.2% | Lost · 3rd |
| Lok Sabha 1962 | 302. Bangalore City | CPI | 25,880 | 12.1% | Lost · 3rd |
| Karnataka7 contests · 1957–1989 · 4 won | |||||
| Karnataka 1989 | 77. Rajaji Nagar | CPI | 8,096 | 6.1% | Lost · 5th |
| Karnataka 1985 | 77. Rajaji Nagar | CPI | 45,477 | 47.3% | Won |
| Karnataka 1983 | 77. Rajaji Nagar | CPI | 54,467 | 54.9% | Won |
| Karnataka 1978 | 76. Malleshwaram | CPI | 20,918 | 36.2% | Lost · 2nd |
| Karnataka 1972 | 73. Malleshwaram | CPI | 31,925 | 53.6% | Won |
| Karnataka 1967 | 73. Malleshwaram | CPM | 12,977 | 30.3% | Won |
| Karnataka 1957 | 142. Bangalore North | CPI | 4,353 | 7.9% | Lost · 6th |
| Tamil Nadu1 contest · 1967–1967 · 0 won | |||||
| Tamil Nadu 1967 | 81. Taramangalam | INC | 24,259 | 42.2% | Lost · 2nd |