Name in the record
SELVAM K
Also on ballots as SELVAM. K, SELVAM, K., SELVAM K., SELVAM , K. …
IND·VTVTK·TVK·NTK·PMK·BSP·VCK
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “SELVAM K” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 42-year span across 22 contests, 7 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
22
1984–2026
Wins
1
Parties
7
States / UT
2
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.