Name in the record
PURAN CHANDRA
IND·SP·INC·BHJS·BJP·PSP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “PURAN CHANDRA” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 3 different states/UTs, a 60-year span across 11 contests, 6 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
1957–2017
Wins
1
Parties
6
States / UT
3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uttarakhand3 contests · 2002–2017 · 0 won | |||||
| Uttarakhand 2017 | 51. Someshwar | IND | 263 | 0.6% | Lost · 6th |
| Uttarakhand 2007 | 45. Dwarahat | SP | 516 | 1.3% | Lost · 7th |
| Uttarakhand 2002 | 45. Dwarahat | INC | 7,112 | 23.7% | Lost · 2nd |
| Uttar Pradesh7 contests · 1980–1996 · 1 won | |||||
| Uttar Pradesh 1996 | 329. Babina | BHJS | 818 | 0.6% | Lost · 4th |
| Uttar Pradesh 1993 | 11. Bageshwar | IND | 1,193 | 2.0% | Lost · 4th |
| Uttar Pradesh 1991 | 11. Bageshwar | BJP | 28,204 | 47.9% | Won |
| Uttar Pradesh 1985 | 11. Bageshwar | IND | 9,813 | 23.1% | Lost · 2nd |
| Uttar Pradesh 1985 | 15. Haldwani | IND | 168 | 0.2% | Lost · 12th |
| Uttar Pradesh 1980 | 11. Bageswar | IND | 4,393 | 15.9% | Lost · 2nd |
| Uttar Pradesh 1980 | 13. Naini Tal | BJP | 2,646 | 5.9% | Lost · 4th |
| Madhya Pradesh1 contest · 1957–1957 · 0 won | |||||
| Madhya Pradesh 1957 | 179. Sarangarh | PSP | 6,149 | 9.4% | Lost · 4th |