Name in the record
R. SHANKAR
Also on ballots as R.SHANKAR, R SHANKAR
NCP·IND·BJP·INC·PSP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “R. SHANKAR” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs, a 56-year span across 10 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
10
1967–2023
Wins
0
Parties
5
States / UT
3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karnataka7 contests · 1972–2023 · 0 won | |||||
| Karnataka 2023 | 87. Ranibennur | NCP | 37,559 | 19.5% | Lost · 3rd |
| Karnataka 2013 | 87. Ranibennur | IND | 46,992 | 29.5% | Lost · 2nd |
| Karnataka 2008 | 160. Sarvagnanagar | BJP | 22,880 | 21.2% | Lost · 2nd |
| Karnataka 1994 | 79. Chickpet | IND | 90 | 0.2% | Lost · 10th |
| Karnataka 1989 | 79. Chickpet | IND | 119 | 0.2% | Lost · 11th |
| Karnataka 1978 | 79. Chickpet | INC | 710 | 1.6% | Lost · 5th |
| Karnataka 1972 | 75. Chickpet | IND | 211 | 0.8% | Lost · 6th |
| Lok Sabha1 contest · 1989–1989 · 0 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 1989 | 170. Bangalore South | IND | 442 | 0.1% | Lost · 21th |
| Uttar Pradesh2 contests · 1967–1967 · 0 won | |||||
| Uttar Pradesh 1967 | 181. Mendhwal | INC | 21,565 | 38.3% | Lost · 2nd |
| Uttar Pradesh 1967 | 193. Paniara | PSP | 1,292 | 3.3% | Lost · 6th |