Name in the record
PRAFULLA KUMAR DAS
IND·BSP·BJP·INC·SWA
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “PRAFULLA KUMAR DAS” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 3 different states/UTs, a 45-year span across 10 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
10
1971–2016
Wins
2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Bengal1 contest · 2016–2016 · 0 won | |||||
| West Bengal 2016 | 3. Cooch Behar Uttar | IND | 1,843 | 0.8% | Lost · 5th |
| Lok Sabha1 contest · 2004–2004 · 0 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 2004 | 317. Bhadrak | BSP | 17,059 | 1.8% | Lost · 4th |
| Odisha6 contests · 1971–1995 · 1 won | |||||
| Odisha 1995 | 34. Patkura | BJP | 1,429 | 1.2% | Lost · 3rd |
| Odisha 1990 | 27. Barchana | IND | 758 | 0.8% | Lost · 4th |
| Odisha 1980 | 1. Karanjia | INC | 9,906 | 37.4% | Lost · 2nd |
| Odisha 1977 | 1. Karanjia | IND | 7,796 | 32.3% | Lost · 2nd |
| Odisha 1974 | 1. Karanjia | SWA | 9,186 | 29.2% | Lost · 3rd |
| Odisha 1971 | 1. Karanjia | SWA | 6,108 | 30.8% | Won |
| Tripura2 contests · 1972–1983 · 1 won | |||||
| Tripura 1983 | 3. Bamutia | INC | 7,023 | 48.1% | Lost · 2nd |
| Tripura 1972 | 3. Bamutia | INC | 4,862 | 61.7% | Won |