Name in the record
R.D. PATEL
Also on ballots as R.D.PATEL
BJP·IND·INC·SSP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “R.D. PATEL” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 3 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year — 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
4
1967–1993
Wins
2
Parties
4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh2 contests · 1993–1993 · 0 won | |||||
| Madhya Pradesh 1993 | 160. Saja | BJP | 29,897 | 42.0% | Lost · 2nd |
| Madhya Pradesh 1993 | 203. Badwara | IND | 292 | 0.4% | Lost · 6th |
| Gujarat1 contest · 1967–1967 · 1 won | |||||
| Gujarat 1967 | 122. Borsad | INC | 25,636 | 54.9% | Won |
| Uttar Pradesh1 contest · 1967–1967 · 1 won | |||||
| Uttar Pradesh 1967 | 278. Soraon | SSP | 12,734 | 32.7% | Won |