Name in the record
M. SHANMUGAM
Also on ballots as M SHANMUGAM
IND·BSP·DMK
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “M. SHANMUGAM” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs, a 59-year span across 7 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
7
1967–2026
Wins
2
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 Nadu5 contests · 1967–2026 · 2 won | |||||
| Tamil Nadu 2026 | 17. Royapuram | IND | 20 | 0.0% | Lost · 28th |
| Tamil Nadu 1977 | 26. Kancheepuram | IND | 250 | 0.3% | Lost · 6th |
| Tamil Nadu 1977 | 59. Mugaiyur | DMK | 18,248 | 26.5% | Lost · 2nd |
| Tamil Nadu 1971 | 55. Villupuram | DMK | 35,838 | 51.4% | Won |
| Tamil Nadu 1967 | 55. Villupuram | DMK | 37,605 | 53.7% | Won |
| Lok Sabha1 contest · 2024–2024 · 0 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 2024 | 375. Erode | IND | 772 | 0.1% | Lost · 15th |
| Puducherry1 contest · 1996–1996 · 0 won | |||||
| Puducherry 1996 | 12. Kuruvinatham | BSP | 89 | 0.6% | Lost · 4th |