Name in the record
M. VENUGOPAL
Also on ballots as M.VENUGOPAL
DMK·IND·INC
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “M. VENUGOPAL” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 3 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year — 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
6
1967–1990
Wins
1
Parties
3
States / UT
3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puducherry3 contests · 1980–1990 · 1 won | |||||
| Puducherry 1990 | 17. Villenour | DMK | 4,706 | 30.3% | Lost · 2nd |
| Puducherry 1985 | 17. Villenour | DMK | 5,187 | 47.7% | Lost · 2nd |
| Puducherry 1980 | 17. Villenour | DMK | 3,810 | 44.2% | Won |
| Kerala2 contests · 1967–1980 · 0 won | |||||
| Kerala 1980 | 127. Varkala | IND | 337 | 0.5% | Lost · 3rd |
| Kerala 1967 | 15. Badagara | INC | 12,977 | 25.7% | Lost · 2nd |
| Tamil Nadu1 contest · 1967–1967 · 0 won | |||||
| Tamil Nadu 1967 | 12. Saidapet | IND | 290 | 0.3% | Lost · 5th |