Name in the record
PUNAM DEVI
IND·JAP·JDS·S·JAPL·SSD·JDU·SAP·INC
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “PUNAM DEVI” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 40-year span across 11 contests, 9 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
11
1985–2025
Wins
2
Parties
9
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.
| Election | Constituency | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bihar8 contests · 1985–2025 · 2 won | |||||
| Bihar 2025 | 15. Kesaria | IND | 2,131 | 1.2% | Lost · 11th |
| Bihar 2020 | 143. Teghra | JDS | 375 | 0.2% | Lost · 15th |
| Bihar 2020 | 191. Bikram | S | 802 | 0.4% | Lost · 12th |
| Bihar 2015 | 53. Thakurganj | JAPL | 1,562 | 0.9% | Lost · 8th |
| Bihar 2015 | 231. Tikari | SSD | 989 | 0.6% | Lost · 11th |
| Bihar 2010 | 181. Digha | JDU | 81,247 | 62.0% | Won |
| Bihar 2000 | 205. Masaurhi | SAP | 48,571 | 32.4% | Lost · 2nd |
| Bihar 1985 | 205. Masaurhi | INC | 47,163 | 53.7% | Won |
| Lok Sabha3 contests · 1996–2024 · 0 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 2024 | 76. Sasaram | JAP | 2,654 | 0.2% | Lost · 9th |
| Lok Sabha 2019 | 77. Karakat | IND | 1,359 | 0.2% | Lost · 26th |
| Lok Sabha 1996 | 77. Barh | INC | 9,403 | 1.3% | Lost · 4th |