Name in the record
MAHESH RAM
IND·SAP·BSP·INC·DDP·BJS·JAP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “MAHESH RAM” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 3 different states/UTs, a 50-year span across 14 contests, 7 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
14
1969–2019
Wins
3
Parties
7
States / UT
4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lok Sabha3 contests · 2004–2019 · 0 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 2019 | 70. Munger | IND | 7,450 | 0.7% | Lost · 12th |
| Lok Sabha 2009 | 91. Arrah | IND | 11,859 | 2.1% | Lost · 6th |
| Lok Sabha 2004 | 173. Kodarma | BSP | 17,053 | 2.1% | Lost · 5th |
| Bihar9 contests · 1969–2010 · 3 won | |||||
| Bihar 2010 | 130. Patepur | SAP | 2,453 | 2.1% | Lost · 6th |
| Bihar 2000 | 53. Paru | IND | 228 | 0.2% | Lost · 9th |
| Bihar 2000 | 69. Majorganj | INC | 6,134 | 5.3% | Lost · 3rd |
| Bihar 1995 | 265. Simaria | SAP | 851 | 1.1% | Lost · 8th |
| Bihar 1995 | 316. Latehar | IND | 106 | 0.2% | Lost · 20th |
| Bihar 1980 | 264. Chatra | INC | 22,973 | 63.1% | Won |
| Bihar 1977 | 265. Simaria | IND | 2,152 | 6.6% | Lost · 4th |
| Bihar 1972 | 270. Barkagaon | BJS | 11,904 | 52.5% | Won |
| Bihar 1969 | 270. Barkagaon | JAP | 11,657 | 55.0% | Won |
| Madhya Pradesh1 contest · 1993–1993 · 0 won | |||||
| Madhya Pradesh 1993 | 128. Abhanpur | DDP | 254 | 0.3% | Lost · 7th |
| Uttar Pradesh1 contest · 1989–1989 · 0 won | |||||
| Uttar Pradesh 1989 | 310. Chhibramau | IND | 179 | 0.2% | Lost · 13th |