Name in the record
MAHENDRA RAI
Also on ballots as Mahendra Rai
BSP·IND·JNPSC·CPI·JNP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “MAHENDRA RAI” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, 5 different parties — 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
1972–2010
Wins
0
Parties
5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bihar5 contests · 1972–2010 · 0 won | |||||
| Bihar 2010 | 123. Hajipur | BSP | 1,788 | 1.3% | Lost · 9th |
| Bihar 1980 | 16. Madhuban | JNPSC | 20,230 | 24.4% | Lost · 2nd |
| Bihar 1980 | 64. Runisaidpur | IND | 591 | 0.7% | Lost · 6th |
| Bihar 1977 | 16. Madhuban | JNP | 13,137 | 21.8% | Lost · 2nd |
| Bihar 1972 | 17. Madhuban | IND | 12,266 | 23.6% | Lost · 2nd |
| Lok Sabha2 contests · 1991–1999 · 0 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 1999 | 69. Muzaffarpur | IND | 2,400 | 0.3% | Lost · 7th |
| Lok Sabha 1991 | 90. Monghyr | IND | 92 | 0.0% | Lost · 26th |
| Uttar Pradesh1 contest · 1980–1980 · 0 won | |||||
| Uttar Pradesh 1980 | 198. Seorahi | CPI | 4,056 | 8.5% | Lost · 4th |