Name in the record
SARASWATI DEVI
MCO·IND·CSPJSD·DDP·INC
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “SARASWATI DEVI” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 3 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 48-year span across 12 contests, 5 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
12
1957–2005
Wins
3
Parties
5
States / UT
3
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.
| Election | Constituency | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jharkhand1 contest · 2005–2005 · 0 won | |||||
| Jharkhand 2005 | 43. Baghmara | MCO | 1,903 | 1.3% | Lost · 6th |
| Bihar7 contests · 1957–2000 · 0 won | |||||
| Bihar 2000 | 173. Dhuraiya | IND | 396 | 0.3% | Lost · 7th |
| Bihar 2000 | 323. Chhatarpur | IND | 480 | 0.7% | Lost · 13th |
| Bihar 1995 | 155. Jamtara | CSPJSD | 426 | 0.4% | Lost · 14th |
| Bihar 1995 | 249. Gaya Muffasil | IND | 170 | 0.2% | Lost · 18th |
| Bihar 1995 | 312. Simdega | DDP | 285 | 0.3% | Lost · 13th |
| Bihar 1977 | 278. Bermo | IND | 175 | 0.4% | Lost · 10th |
| Bihar 1957 | 229. Mandu | INC | 2,738 | 17.6% | Lost · 2nd |
| Uttar Pradesh4 contests · 1957–1985 · 3 won | |||||
| Uttar Pradesh 1985 | 10. Almora | INC | 24,664 | 48.5% | Won |
| Uttar Pradesh 1969 | 12. Bageshwar | INC | 10,320 | 36.6% | Won |
| Uttar Pradesh 1962 | 170. Sarju | INC | 7,594 | 20.2% | Lost · 3rd |
| Uttar Pradesh 1957 | 282. Sarju | INC | 16,854 | 50.0% | Won |