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Name in the record

PURUSHOTTAM

IND·NPEP·RJSWP·HMS·BJP·JNP·BKD·SSP

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “PURUSHOTTAM” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 3 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 46-year span across 15 contests, 8 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
15
1967–2013
Wins
2
Parties
8
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.

ElectionConstituencyPartyVotesShareResult
Madhya Pradesh4 contests · 1985–2013 · 1 won
Madhya Pradesh 201313. GohadIND3220.3%Lost · 11th
Madhya Pradesh 200887. AnuppurIND2,8613.0%Lost · 5th
Madhya Pradesh 199870. TeontharIND2340.2%Lost · 7th
Madhya Pradesh 1985258. ShajapurBJP35,13852.8%Won
Rajasthan2 contests · 1990–2013 · 0 won
Rajasthan 2013188. SangodNPEP4,5983.5%Lost · 3rd
Rajasthan 199023. PilaniIND1160.1%Lost · 12th
Uttar Pradesh7 contests · 1967–2012 · 1 won
Uttar Pradesh 201247. Meerut CantonmentRJSWP1460.1%Lost · 24th
Uttar Pradesh 1993363. MathuraIND200.0%Lost · 44th
Uttar Pradesh 1991289. GeneralganjHMS550.1%Lost · 15th
Uttar Pradesh 198921. NazibabadIND5180.7%Lost · 6th
Uttar Pradesh 1985197. PadraunaJNP2,9704.3%Lost · 6th
Uttar Pradesh 1974197. PadraunaBKD23,97135.7%Won
Uttar Pradesh 1967267. RajgarhSSP8,32113.6%Lost · 3rd
Lok Sabha2 contests · 1984–1991 · 0 won
Lok Sabha 1991456. JhansiIND3,0760.7%Lost · 9th
Lok Sabha 1984461. MathuraIND3850.1%Lost · 14th