Election
Name in the record

RAM SWAROOP SINGH

SP·BSP·IND·CPM·CPI·JNPSC·PSP

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “RAM SWAROOP SINGH” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 3 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 45-year span across 14 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
14
1962–2007
Wins
2
Parties
7
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.