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Name in the record

RAM DAYAL SINGH

IND·PBI·JNP·BKD·INC·RRP

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “RAM DAYAL SINGH” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 4 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 58-year span across 11 contests, 6 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.

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
11
1957–2015
Wins
3
Parties
6
States / UT
5
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
Bihar3 contests · 1977–2015 · 1 won
Bihar 2015211. NokhaIND7720.5%Lost · 11th
Bihar 199045. HajipurPBI5240.5%Lost · 12th
Bihar 1977214. SandeshJNP30,79353.0%Won
Lok Sabha3 contests · 1957–2014 · 0 won
Lok Sabha 201494. KarakatIND5,4590.7%Lost · 11th
Lok Sabha 1984462. HathrasIND11,9013.2%Lost · 4th
Lok Sabha 1957176. GwaliorRRP32,6555.1%Lost · 9th
Uttar Pradesh2 contests · 1974–1980 · 1 won
Uttar Pradesh 1980369. SasniJNP5521.2%Lost · 6th
Uttar Pradesh 1974393. KithoreBKD30,62137.7%Won
Madhya Pradesh2 contests · 1962–1977 · 1 won
Madhya Pradesh 19773. SabalgarhIND1,2762.6%Lost · 4th
Madhya Pradesh 196230. AshoknagarINC10,47438.1%Won
Punjab1 contest · 1962–1962 · 0 won
Punjab 196292. Ludhiana SouthINC20,52542.2%Lost · 2nd