Name in the record
RAM SHANKAR
INC·IND·IJP·SP·BKD·ICS·BJP·LKD·LKDB·FBL·JNP·NCO·MAP·BJS
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “RAM SHANKAR” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 4 different states/UTs, a 55-year span across 31 contests, 14 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
31
1957–2012
Wins
0
Parties
14
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.