Name in the record
RAFIQ AHMAD
IND·INC·BSP·BKD·CPI
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “RAFIQ AHMAD” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 3 different states/UTs, a 46-year span across 7 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
7
1962–2008
Wins
0
Parties
5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jammu & Kashmir1 contest · 2008–2008 · 0 won | |||||
| Jammu & Kashmir 2008 | 16. Kangan | IND | 607 | 1.7% | Lost · 5th |
| Uttar Pradesh5 contests · 1974–1991 · 0 won | |||||
| Uttar Pradesh 1991 | 56. Baheri | INC | 10,928 | 10.8% | Lost · 3rd |
| Uttar Pradesh 1989 | 165. Harraiya | BSP | 15,072 | 16.7% | Lost · 3rd |
| Uttar Pradesh 1985 | 152. Bahraich | IND | 1,470 | 3.2% | Lost · 6th |
| Uttar Pradesh 1980 | 56. Baheri | INC | 21,733 | 27.4% | Lost · 2nd |
| Uttar Pradesh 1974 | 56. Baheri | BKD | 24,915 | 31.4% | Lost · 2nd |
| Bihar1 contest · 1962–1962 · 0 won | |||||
| Bihar 1962 | 213. Arrah | CPI | 1,279 | 4.0% | Lost · 4th |