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Name in the record

M. V. KRISHNAPPA

Also on ballots as M.V. KRISHNAPPA

IND·INCU·INC

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “M. V. KRISHNAPPA” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 43-year span across 8 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
8
1951–1994
Wins
5
Parties
3
States / UT
2
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.

ElectionConstituencyPartyVotesShareResult
Karnataka1 contest · 1994–1994 · 0 won
Karnataka 1994108. PandavapuraIND8170.8%Lost · 8th
Lok Sabha7 contests · 1951–1980 · 5 won
Lok Sabha 1980167. ChikballapurINCU67,05317.0%Lost · 3rd
Lok Sabha 1977179. ChikballapurINC2,07,58952.4%Won
Lok Sabha 1971277. HoskoteINC2,40,24477.2%Won
Lok Sabha 1967318. HoskoteINC1,60,37454.6%Won
Lok Sabha 1962299. TumkurINC1,19,61747.5%Won
Lok Sabha 1957252. TumkurINC1,16,86360.2%Won
Lok Sabha 1951223. KolarINC1,72,54624.0%Lost · 2nd