Name in the record
PUTTAIAH
HND·IND·USYP·SWA
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “PUTTAIAH” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 41-year span across 8 contests — 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
8
1972–2013
Wins
0
Parties
4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karnataka 2013 | 199. Sakleshpur | HND | 1,309 | 0.9% | Lost · 7th |
| Karnataka 2008 | 134. Koratagere | IND | 732 | 0.6% | Lost · 9th |
| Karnataka 2008 | 196. Hassan | IND | 422 | 0.4% | Lost · 7th |
| Karnataka 2004 | 129. Belur | USYP | 885 | 0.9% | Lost · 7th |
| Karnataka 1985 | 130. Arsikere | IND | 66 | 0.1% | Lost · 15th |
| Karnataka 1985 | 131. Gandasi | IND | 405 | 0.6% | Lost · 3rd |
| Karnataka 1978 | 135. Hassan | IND | 284 | 0.5% | Lost · 6th |
| Karnataka 1972 | 130. Sakleshpur | SWA | 1,807 | 4.2% | Lost · 4th |