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Name in the record

RAM DATT JOSHI

BSP·IND·JNP·PSP

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “RAM DATT JOSHI” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs — 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
4
1969–2012
Wins
1
Parties
4
States / UT
2

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
Uttarakhand2 contests · 20072012 · 0 won
Uttarakhand 201244. PithoragarhBSP9181.6%Lost · 3rd
Uttarakhand 200766. PithoragarhIND5741.1%Lost · 7th
Uttar Pradesh2 contests · 19691977 · 1 won
Uttar Pradesh 197713. Naini TalJNP21,19248.5%Won
Uttar Pradesh 196917. KashipurPSP11,39518.9%Lost · 2nd