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Name in the record

SANTOSH KUMAR SAHU

AIFB·IND·INC·UTC

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “SANTOSH KUMAR SAHU” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 4 different states/UTs, a 53-year span across 7 contests — 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
7
1971–2024
Wins
1
Parties
4
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.

ElectionConstituencyPartyVotesShareResult
Lok Sabha2 contests · 19912024 · 0 won
Lok Sabha 2024317. BerhampurAIFB2,2910.2%Lost · 12th
Lok Sabha 1991233. DurgIND1790.0%Lost · 25th
Odisha2 contests · 19712019 · 0 won
Odisha 2019132. GopalpurAIFB5930.4%Lost · 8th
Odisha 19716. BaripadaUTC6,37818.7%Lost · 2nd
Chhattisgarh1 contest · 20182018 · 0 won
Chhattisgarh 201826. LormiIND8520.6%Lost · 11th
Uttar Pradesh1 contest · 20022002 · 0 won
Uttar Pradesh 2002100. RampurkhasIND2,2171.7%Lost · 7th
Madhya Pradesh1 contest · 19931993 · 1 won
Madhya Pradesh 199337. BandaINC48,01648.2%Won