Name in the record
R. VISWANATHAN
Also on ballots as R VISWANATHAN, R.VISWANATHAN
CPI·PMK
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “R. VISWANATHAN” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 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
8
1990–2016
Wins
4
Parties
2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puducherry6 contests · 1990–2016 · 4 won | |||||
| Puducherry 2016 | 10. Kamaraj Nagar | CPI | 857 | 3.3% | Lost · 5th |
| Puducherry 2006 | 20. Reddiarpalayam | CPI | 17,314 | 50.4% | Won |
| Puducherry 2001 | 20. Reddiarpalayam | CPI | 7,985 | 31.3% | Lost · 2nd |
| Puducherry 1996 | 20. Reddiarpalayam | CPI | 17,206 | 65.6% | Won |
| Puducherry 1991 | 20. Reddiarpalayam | CPI | 13,134 | 64.0% | Won |
| Puducherry 1990 | 20. Reddiarpalayam | CPI | 11,153 | 50.8% | Won |
| Lok Sabha1 contest · 2014–2014 · 0 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 2014 | 336. Puducherry | CPI | 12,709 | 1.7% | Lost · 7th |
| Tamil Nadu1 contest · 1991–1991 · 0 won | |||||
| Tamil Nadu 1991 | 25. Uthiramerur | PMK | 20,552 | 18.0% | Lost · 3rd |