Name in the record
PALANIAPPAN
Also on ballots as PALANIAPPAN @
DMK·IND·BJP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “PALANIAPPAN” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 41-year span across 6 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
6
1980–2021
Wins
0
Parties
3
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.
| Election | Constituency | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tamil Nadu 2021 | 179. Viralimalai | DMK | 78,581 | 40.6% | Lost · 2nd |
| Tamil Nadu 2021 | 185. Tiruppattur | IND | 333 | 0.2% | Lost · 12th |
| Tamil Nadu 2006 | 186. Valangiman | BJP | 658 | 0.6% | Lost · 6th |
| Tamil Nadu 1996 | 118. Modakkurichi | IND | 2 | 0.0% | Lost · 661th |
| Tamil Nadu 1996 | 120. Erode | IND | 49 | 0.0% | Lost · 33th |
| Tamil Nadu 1980 | 119. Perundurai | IND | 895 | 1.1% | Lost · 4th |