Name in the record
MURUGESAN, M.
Also on ballots as MURUGESAN M, MURUGESAN M., MURUGESAN. M, MURUGESAN .M …
IND·PMK·SP·BSP·BJP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “MURUGESAN, M.” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 44-year span across 19 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
19
1980–2024
Wins
0
Parties
5
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.