Name in the record
PARMANAND
Also on ballots as Parmanand
IND·JANADIP·JMM·JDU·SHS·BJP·JNPSR·INC·BJS·SWA·JS·PSP·SP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “PARMANAND” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 8 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 67-year span across 42 contests, 13 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
42
1951–2018
Wins
1
Parties
13
States / UT
9
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.