EElectionLens
Name in the record

MALLIKARJUN

IND·UPP·NPP·INC·INCI·TPS

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “MALLIKARJUN” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 52-year span across 13 contests, 6 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
13
1971–2023
Wins
7
Parties
6
States / UT
2
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.