Name in the record
RAM NARAYAN SINGH
RJP·SHS·IND·CPIMLL·MNVP·JNPSR·BJS·HSD·CPI·CNSPJP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “RAM NARAYAN SINGH” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 3 different states/UTs, a 74-year span across 23 contests, 10 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.
Ballot lines
23
1951–2025
Wins
1
Parties
10
States / UT
4
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.