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Name in the record

RAJA RAM SHASTRI

IND·INC·SP

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “RAJA RAM SHASTRI” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 3 different states/UTs, a 42-year span across 6 contests — 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.

Also recorded as

Other spellings of what is very likely the same person — names are stored as free text, so word order, initials and joined words split a career across pages.

Ballot lines
6
1951–1993
Wins
1
Parties
3
States / UT
4
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.

ElectionConstituencyPartyVotesShareResult
Delhi2 contests · 19721993 · 0 won
Delhi 199329. NasirpurIND610.1%Lost · 14th
Delhi 197230. Kamla NagarIND1470.8%Lost · 4th
Uttar Pradesh2 contests · 19511991 · 0 won
Uttar Pradesh 1991409. CharthawalIND3420.4%Lost · 8th
Uttar Pradesh 1951130. Kanpur City NorthSP11,10439.2%Lost · 2nd
Bihar1 contest · 19901990 · 0 won
Bihar 1990175. BelharIND3,7454.6%Lost · 5th
Lok Sabha1 contest · 19711971 · 1 won
Lok Sabha 1971445. VaranasiINC1,38,78947.0%Won