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Name in the record

MAHESH JOSHI

Also on ballots as Mahesh Joshi

BSP·INC·SJPR·IND

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “MAHESH JOSHI” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 4 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 41-year span across 13 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
13
1972–2013
Wins
5
Parties
4
States / UT
5
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
Rajasthan4 contests · 1990–2013 · 1 won
Rajasthan 201396. TonkBSP1,0360.7%Lost · 8th
Rajasthan 200343. KishanpoleINC62,45647.8%Lost · 2nd
Rajasthan 199843. KishanpoleINC62,10749.9%Won
Rajasthan 199041. HawamahalINC13,16424.2%Lost · 2nd
Lok Sabha2 contests · 1999–2009 · 1 won
Lok Sabha 2009356. JaipurINC3,97,43848.9%Won
Lok Sabha 1999257. IndoreINC3,42,85241.5%Lost · 2nd
Delhi1 contest · 1998–1998 · 0 won
Delhi 199835. TughlakabadSJPR730.1%Lost · 14th
Madhya Pradesh5 contests · 1972–1990 · 3 won
Madhya Pradesh 1990272. Indore-IiiINC17,15133.4%Lost · 2nd
Madhya Pradesh 1985272. Indore-IiiINC23,25353.7%Won
Madhya Pradesh 1980272. Indore-IiiINC21,71755.9%Won
Madhya Pradesh 1977270. Indore-IINC19,18244.7%Lost · 2nd
Madhya Pradesh 1972251. Indore IINC25,29853.9%Won
Uttar Pradesh1 contest · 1989–1989 · 0 won
Uttar Pradesh 19898. DidihatIND1,7012.5%Lost · 4th