Name in the record
P. SHANMUGAM
Also on ballots as P SHANMUGAM
IND·INC·CPM·INCI
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “P. SHANMUGAM” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs, a 55-year span across 10 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
10
1969–2024
Wins
3
Parties
4
States / UT
3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lok Sabha4 contests · 1980–2024 · 2 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 2024 | 366. Vellore | IND | 2,039 | 0.2% | Lost · 10th |
| Lok Sabha 1998 | 336. Pondicherry | INC | 1,31,348 | 32.1% | Lost · 2nd |
| Lok Sabha 1989 | 322. Pondicherry | INC | 1,90,562 | 50.5% | Won |
| Lok Sabha 1980 | 322. Pondicherry | INCI | 1,64,589 | 66.5% | Won |
| Puducherry5 contests · 1969–2006 · 1 won | |||||
| Puducherry 2006 | 18. Ozhukarai | IND | 9 | 0.0% | Lost · 12th |
| Puducherry 1990 | 23. Karaikal | IND | 11 | 0.1% | Lost · 10th |
| Puducherry 1977 | 26. Tirunallar | INC | 1,811 | 23.2% | Lost · 3rd |
| Puducherry 1974 | 23. Karaikal | INC | 3,666 | 38.1% | Lost · 2nd |
| Puducherry 1969 | 27. Nedouncadou | INC | 3,103 | 50.2% | Won |
| Tamil Nadu1 contest · 1996–1996 · 0 won | |||||
| Tamil Nadu 1996 | 79. Harur | CPM | 6,136 | 4.8% | Lost · 4th |