Name in the record
R. SANKAR
Also on ballots as R.SANKAR, R .SANKAR
IJK·IND·JNP·INC·CON
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “R. SANKAR” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 3 different states/UTs, a 51-year span across 6 contests, 5 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
6
1960–2011
Wins
1
Parties
5
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.
| Election | Constituency | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tamil Nadu2 contests · 1977–2011 · 0 won | |||||
| Tamil Nadu 2011 | 154. Panruti | IJK | 1,570 | 1.0% | Lost · 3rd |
| Tamil Nadu 1977 | 197. Ilayangudi | JNP | 5,303 | 7.3% | Lost · 5th |
| Puducherry1 contest · 1996–1996 · 0 won | |||||
| Puducherry 1996 | 21. Lawspet | IND | 27 | 0.1% | Lost · 10th |
| Lok Sabha1 contest · 1967–1967 · 0 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 1967 | 183. Chirayinkil | INC | 1,27,697 | 42.6% | Lost · 2nd |
| Kerala2 contests · 1960–1965 · 1 won | |||||
| Kerala 1965 | 121. Attingal | CON | 23,515 | 43.9% | Lost · 2nd |
| Kerala 1960 | 107. Channanore I | INC | 33,313 | 58.3% | Won |