Name in the record
MANOHAR LAL
Also on ballots as Manohar Lal
BJP·IND·AAP·BSP·DPI·SP·RJVP·U·AWD·GGP·NCP·EKDUP·IJP·MC·ABJVP·ABJS·ICS·JD·SOP·LKD·INC·JNPS·JNPSC·BLD·BKD·BJS·REP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “MANOHAR LAL” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 10 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 73-year span across 101 contests, 27 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
101
1951–2024
Wins
12
Parties
27
States / UT
11
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.