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.
- KUMAR NAIK VENKATAPPA NAIK · 2 contests · 1957–1962
- RAJA KUMAR NAIK RAJA VENKATAPPA NAIK · 1 contest · 1983–1983
- RAJA VENKATAPPA NAIK RAJA KUMAR NAIK · 1 contest · 1994–1994
- RAJA VENKATAPPA NAIK (TATA) S/O RAJA PID NAIK · 1 contest · 1994–1994
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.
| Election | Constituency | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karnataka5 contests · 1999–2023 · 2 won | |||||
| Karnataka 2023 | 36. Shorapur | INC | 1,13,559 | 54.7% | Won |
| Karnataka 2018 | 36. Shorapur | INC | 81,858 | 41.5% | Lost · 2nd |
| Karnataka 2008 | 36. Shorapur | INC | 55,961 | 43.8% | Lost · 2nd |
| Karnataka 2004 | 19. Shorapur | INC | 40,733 | 36.1% | Lost · 2nd |
| Karnataka 1999 | 19. Shorapur | INC | 45,351 | 46.3% | Won |
| Lok Sabha2 contests · 1971–2009 · 0 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 2009 | 188. Raichur | INC | 2,85,814 | 41.9% | Lost · 2nd |
| Lok Sabha 1971 | 270. Raichur | SWA | 54,005 | 25.5% | Lost · 2nd |