Name in the record
PURNA CHANDRA NAIK
BSP·KOKD·RPIA·IND·GP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “PURNA CHANDRA NAIK” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 63-year span across 6 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
6
1951–2014
Wins
0
Parties
5
States / UT
1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Odisha 2014 | 123. Bhanjanagar | BSP | 1,298 | 0.9% | Lost · 6th |
| Odisha 2009 | 7. Jharsuguda | KOKD | 1,384 | 1.1% | Lost · 5th |
| Odisha 2009 | 33. Baripada | BSP | 772 | 0.7% | Lost · 8th |
| Odisha 2009 | 115. Jatani | RPIA | 534 | 0.5% | Lost · 9th |
| Odisha 1971 | 58. Daspalla | IND | 609 | 3.0% | Lost · 6th |
| Odisha 1951 | 72. Ersama | GP | 717 | 2.7% | Lost · 4th |