Name in the record
MARKANDEY SINGH
RLM·BJP·IND·HMS·BJS
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “MARKANDEY SINGH” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs, a 61-year span across 7 contests, 5 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
7
1951–2012
Wins
1
Parties
5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh6 contests · 1951–2012 · 1 won | |||||
| Uttar Pradesh 2012 | 322. Gorakhpur Urban | RLM | 283 | 0.2% | Lost · 24th |
| Uttar Pradesh 1993 | 227. Balia | BJP | 43,117 | 39.9% | Won |
| Uttar Pradesh 1962 | 189. Bansgaon | HMS | 919 | 2.9% | Lost · 8th |
| Uttar Pradesh 1957 | 250. Bansgaon | IND | 4,971 | 5.3% | Lost · 4th |
| Uttar Pradesh 1951 | 236. Mariahu South | BJS | 3,810 | 11.0% | Lost · 3rd |
| Uttar Pradesh 1951 | 261. Banaras Central | IND | 3,860 | 12.1% | Lost · 4th |
| Bihar1 contest · 1972–1972 · 0 won | |||||
| Bihar 1972 | 215. Brahmpur | IND | 3,465 | 6.1% | Lost · 5th |