Name in the record
SANJIV KUMAR
Also on ballots as Sanjiv Kumar
SJAP·JAP·RSTJNVKSP·IND·BSP·BJP·BNSKP·CPM·HALP·INC
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “SANJIV KUMAR” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 7 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 50-year span across 18 contests, 10 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
18
1974–2024
Wins
1
Parties
10
States / UT
8
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.