Name in the record
MAHENDRA SHASTRI
INC·LKD·JNPSC·IND
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “MAHENDRA SHASTRI” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 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
4
1980–2003
Wins
1
Parties
4
States / UT
2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rajasthan3 contests · 1980–2003 · 1 won | |||||
| Rajasthan 2003 | 59. Mandawar | INC | 8,709 | 9.3% | Lost · 3rd |
| Rajasthan 1985 | 59. Mandawar | LKD | 25,520 | 47.1% | Won |
| Rajasthan 1980 | 59. Mandawar | JNPSC | 21,175 | 42.6% | Lost · 2nd |
| Uttar Pradesh1 contest · 1980–1980 · 0 won | |||||
| Uttar Pradesh 1980 | 109. Rae Bareli | IND | 2,290 | 4.9% | Lost · 5th |