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Name in the record

NIRANJAN PATNAIK

Also on ballots as Niranjan Patnaik

INC

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “NIRANJAN PATNAIK” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 42-year span across 8 contests — 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
8
1977–2019
Wins
4
Parties
1
States / UT
1

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.

ElectionConstituencyPartyVotesShareResult
Odisha 201921. GhasipuraINC54,12831.2%Lost · 2nd
Odisha 201943. BhandaripokhariINC61,32135.4%Lost · 2nd
Odisha 200921. GhasipuraINC52,33635.5%Lost · 2nd
Odisha 2004146. RamchandrapurINC54,88439.0%Won
Odisha 1995146. RamchandrapurINC54,42545.7%Won
Odisha 1985146. RamchandrapurINC39,04974.6%Won
Odisha 1980146. RamchandrapurINC27,86955.6%Won
Odisha 1977146. RamchandrapurINC9,51427.7%Lost · 2nd