Name in the record
N. RAMACHANDRAN
BJP·IND·MDMK·DMK
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “N. RAMACHANDRAN” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 3 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year — 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
5
1977–2026
Wins
1
Parties
4
States / UT
3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tamil Nadu3 contests · 1977–2026 · 1 won | |||||
| Tamil Nadu 2026 | 180. Pudukkottai | BJP | 41,089 | 21.6% | Lost · 3rd |
| Tamil Nadu 1996 | 54. Gingee | MDMK | 19,640 | 16.3% | Lost · 4th |
| Tamil Nadu 1977 | 54. Gingee | DMK | 26,971 | 36.1% | Won |
| Puducherry1 contest · 1996–1996 · 0 won | |||||
| Puducherry 1996 | 21. Lawspet | IND | 12 | 0.0% | Lost · 13th |
| Kerala1 contest · 1982–1982 · 0 won | |||||
| Kerala 1982 | 123. Kundara | IND | 547 | 0.8% | Lost · 3rd |