Name in the record
RAGHUNATH DAS
IND·SP·JMM·SUC·JKN
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “RAGHUNATH DAS” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 6 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 69-year span across 12 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
12
1957–2026
Wins
0
Parties
5
States / UT
6
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Bengal2 contests · 2016–2026 · 0 won | |||||
| West Bengal 2026 | 84. Nabadwip | IND | 1,089 | 0.5% | Lost · 6th |
| West Bengal 2016 | 215. Khejuri | SP | 3,473 | 1.8% | Lost · 4th |
| Bihar2 contests · 1985–2000 · 0 won | |||||
| Bihar 2000 | 158. Deoghar | JMM | 7,757 | 6.6% | Lost · 4th |
| Bihar 1985 | 158. Deoghar | IND | 6,486 | 14.8% | Lost · 3rd |
| Rajasthan1 contest · 1998–1998 · 0 won | |||||
| Rajasthan 1998 | 194. Deedwana | IND | 3,293 | 3.5% | Lost · 4th |
| Odisha5 contests · 1957–1995 · 0 won | |||||
| Odisha 1995 | 52. Pipli | IND | 724 | 0.6% | Lost · 5th |
| Odisha 1985 | 52. Pipli | IND | 2,321 | 3.9% | Lost · 3rd |
| Odisha 1980 | 52. Pipli | SUC | 2,730 | 5.1% | Lost · 5th |
| Odisha 1977 | 52. Pipli | SUC | 1,768 | 4.5% | Lost · 4th |
| Odisha 1957 | 72. Jagatsinghpur | IND | 5,144 | 4.6% | Lost · 7th |
| Jammu & Kashmir1 contest · 1977–1977 · 0 won | |||||
| Jammu & Kashmir 1977 | 52. Reasi | JKN | 2,699 | 14.4% | Lost · 2nd |
| Tripura1 contest · 1977–1977 · 0 won | |||||
| Tripura 1977 | 59. Panisagar | IND | 363 | 3.8% | Lost · 7th |