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Name in the record

RAJA VENKATAPPA NAIK

INC·SWA

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “RAJA VENKATAPPA NAIK” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 52-year span across 7 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
7
1971–2023
Wins
2
Parties
2
States / UT
2
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
Karnataka5 contests · 19992023 · 2 won
Karnataka 202336. ShorapurINC1,13,55954.7%Won
Karnataka 201836. ShorapurINC81,85841.5%Lost · 2nd
Karnataka 200836. ShorapurINC55,96143.8%Lost · 2nd
Karnataka 200419. ShorapurINC40,73336.1%Lost · 2nd
Karnataka 199919. ShorapurINC45,35146.3%Won
Lok Sabha2 contests · 19712009 · 0 won
Lok Sabha 2009188. RaichurINC2,85,81441.9%Lost · 2nd
Lok Sabha 1971270. RaichurSWA54,00525.5%Lost · 2nd