Name in the record
R.MURUGAN
Also on ballots as R. MURUGAN
IND·DMDK·PMK·AIADMK·BSP·MDMK
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “R.MURUGAN” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 3 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 49-year span across 11 contests, 6 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
11
1977–2026
Wins
1
Parties
6
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tamil Nadu8 contests · 1977–2026 · 1 won | |||||
| Tamil Nadu 2026 | 15. Thiru-Vi-Ka-Nagar | IND | 32 | 0.0% | Lost · 18th |
| Tamil Nadu 2021 | 27. Shozhinganallur | DMDK | 3,912 | 1.0% | Lost · 5th |
| Tamil Nadu 2021 | 84. Omalur | IND | 676 | 0.3% | Lost · 9th |
| Tamil Nadu 2016 | 61. Harur | AIADMK | 64,568 | 34.0% | Won |
| Tamil Nadu 2011 | 32. Chengalpattu | IND | 3,597 | 1.9% | Lost · 5th |
| Tamil Nadu 2011 | 41. Ranipet | IND | 1,213 | 0.8% | Lost · 3rd |
| Tamil Nadu 2001 | 188. Thiruvidaimarudur | MDMK | 4,172 | 3.4% | Lost · 3rd |
| Tamil Nadu 1977 | 147. Natham | AIADMK | 21,093 | 32.6% | Lost · 2nd |
| Puducherry2 contests · 2016–2016 · 0 won | |||||
| Puducherry 2016 | 5. Villianur | PMK | 114 | 0.4% | Lost · 8th |
| Puducherry 2016 | 6. Ozhukarai | PMK | 174 | 0.6% | Lost · 9th |
| Karnataka1 contest · 2008–2008 · 0 won | |||||
| Karnataka 2008 | 164. Gandhi Nagar | BSP | 3,121 | 3.1% | Lost · 5th |