Name in the record
RAMA SHANKER
PECP·IND·NLHP·BJP·JNP·INC·SSD·NCO·SOP·HMS·BJS·SSP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “RAMA SHANKER” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 4 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 52-year span across 36 contests, 12 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
36
1957–2009
Wins
1
Parties
12
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.