Name in the record
P. GOPAL
Also on ballots as P.GOPAL
TPS·TPPP·DMK·PMK·IND
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “P. GOPAL” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 3 different states/UTs, a 47-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
1967–2014
Wins
1
Parties
5
States / UT
4
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.
| Election | Constituency | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Telangana1 contest · 2014–2014 · 0 won | |||||
| Telangana 2014 | 66. Charminar | TPS | 176 | 0.2% | Lost · 13th |
| Andhra Pradesh1 contest · 2009–2009 · 0 won | |||||
| Andhra Pradesh 2009 | 66. Charminar | TPPP | 514 | 0.6% | Lost · 6th |
| Tamil Nadu4 contests · 1967–2001 · 1 won | |||||
| Tamil Nadu 2001 | 84. Mettur | DMK | 41,369 | 35.3% | Lost · 2nd |
| Tamil Nadu 1977 | 29. Thiruvallur | IND | 651 | 1.0% | Lost · 6th |
| Tamil Nadu 1971 | 105. Coimbatore North | DMK | 34,736 | 55.5% | Won |
| Tamil Nadu 1967 | 26. Thiruvallur | IND | 1,875 | 3.0% | Lost · 3rd |
| Lok Sabha1 contest · 1991–1991 · 0 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 1991 | 377. Dindigul | PMK | 7,194 | 1.2% | Lost · 3rd |