Name in the record
PALANISAMY, K.
Also on ballots as PALANISAMY K., PALANISAMY.K, PALANISAMY. K, PALANISAMY K …
BSP·IND·VTVTK·NCP·NTK·DMDK·AIADMK·ICSSCS
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “PALANISAMY, K.” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 42-year span across 44 contests, 8 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
44
1984–2026
Wins
0
Parties
8
States / UT
2
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.