Name in the record
RAM SUMER
Also on ballots as Ram Sumer
IND·MAP·JP·DDP·RPI·CPI·INC·SP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “RAM SUMER” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 71-year span across 20 contests, 8 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
20
1951–2022
Wins
1
Parties
8
States / UT
2
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.