Name in the record
R. ARUNACHALAM
Also on ballots as R.ARUNACHALAM
IND·AIADMK
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “R. ARUNACHALAM” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs — 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
3
1977–2001
Wins
2
Parties
2
States / UT
2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puducherry1 contest · 2001–2001 · 0 won | |||||
| Puducherry 2001 | 17. Villenour | IND | 215 | 1.1% | Lost · 5th |
| Tamil Nadu2 contests · 1977–1984 · 2 won | |||||
| Tamil Nadu 1984 | 96. Namakkal | AIADMK | 58,158 | 56.9% | Won |
| Tamil Nadu 1977 | 96. Namakkal | AIADMK | 31,952 | 40.6% | Won |