Election
Name in the record

RAM LAKHAN YADAV

IND·BSP·JNP·CPI·JNPSC·BJP·SOP

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “RAM LAKHAN YADAV” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 53-year span across 16 contests, 7 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
16
1972–2025
Wins
0
Parties
7
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
Bihar13 contests · 1972–2025 · 0 won
Bihar 202540. LaukahaIND7,6523.3%Lost · 3rd
Bihar 2020233. AtriIND2,3071.3%Lost · 8th
Bihar 199046. RaghopurIND240.0%Lost · 23th
Bihar 199087. BaheriIND37,46528.3%Lost · 2nd
Bihar 1990205. MasaurhiIND770.1%Lost · 23th
Bihar 1990208. Patna EastIND7,3747.8%Lost · 4th
Bihar 198585. BaheraIND3290.5%Lost · 9th
Bihar 198587. BaheriJNP16,62117.2%Lost · 3rd
Bihar 1985100. RoseraIND2350.2%Lost · 9th
Bihar 1985208. Patna EastCPI22,24130.2%Lost · 2nd
Bihar 198087. BaheriJNPSC30,97931.0%Lost · 2nd
Bihar 198091. JaleBJP5,5627.5%Lost · 5th
Bihar 1972166. BankaSOP4,0068.8%Lost · 4th
Uttar Pradesh3 contests · 1985–1991 · 0 won
Uttar Pradesh 1991116. RampurkhasBSP4,7316.4%Lost · 4th
Uttar Pradesh 1989116. RampurkhasBSP5,7026.5%Lost · 3rd
Uttar Pradesh 1985275. Allahabad NorthIND2990.6%Lost · 5th