Name in the record
RAMESHWAR LAL
IND·ABRJP·BSP·BYS·INC·BJP·SP·CPM·DDP·JD·INCU·SOP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “RAMESHWAR LAL” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 4 different states/UTs, a 67-year span across 34 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
34
1957–2024
Wins
5
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.