Name in the record
RAGHUNATH MOHANTY
BJP·BJD·JD·JNP·IND·NCO·SP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “RAGHUNATH MOHANTY” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 68-year span across 10 contests, 7 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
1951–2019
Wins
5
Parties
7
States / UT
1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Odisha 2019 | 37. Basta | BJP | 36,874 | 21.6% | Lost · 3rd |
| Odisha 2009 | 37. Basta | BJD | 74,472 | 50.7% | Won |
| Odisha 2004 | 13. Basta | BJD | 76,316 | 55.8% | Won |
| Odisha 2000 | 13. Basta | BJD | 61,348 | 53.4% | Won |
| Odisha 1995 | 13. Basta | JD | 58,383 | 47.3% | Won |
| Odisha 1990 | 13. Basta | JD | 41,654 | 46.2% | Won |
| Odisha 1985 | 13. Basta | JNP | 8,297 | 12.9% | Lost · 3rd |
| Odisha 1980 | 13. Basta | IND | 13,154 | 22.6% | Lost · 2nd |
| Odisha 1971 | 31. Kendrapara | NCO | 425 | 0.8% | Lost · 5th |
| Odisha 1951 | 2. Padua | SP | 559 | 3.4% | Lost · 3rd |