Name in the record
SHANKAR DAYAL SINGH
CPI·INC·JNP·INCU·IND·KMPP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “SHANKAR DAYAL SINGH” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 49-year span across 11 contests, 6 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
11
1951–2000
Wins
4
Parties
6
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.
| Election | Constituency | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bihar7 contests · 1951–2000 · 3 won | |||||
| Bihar 2000 | 291. Jamshedpur East | CPI | 1,818 | 1.7% | Lost · 5th |
| Bihar 1980 | 252. Gurua | JNP | 19,655 | 25.8% | Lost · 2nd |
| Bihar 1980 | 281. Baghmara | INC | 35,949 | 56.7% | Won |
| Bihar 1977 | 252. Gurua | IND | 11,625 | 20.2% | Lost · 3rd |
| Bihar 1977 | 281. Baghmara | INC | 21,937 | 45.8% | Won |
| Bihar 1972 | 275. Topchanchi | INC | 27,017 | 61.2% | Won |
| Bihar 1951 | 256. Katras | KMPP | 1,644 | 7.7% | Lost · 6th |
| Lok Sabha4 contests · 1977–1989 · 1 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 1989 | 92. Dhanbad | INC | 1,18,770 | 18.6% | Lost · 3rd |
| Lok Sabha 1984 | 92. Dhanbad | INC | 2,03,909 | 41.4% | Won |
| Lok Sabha 1980 | 92. Kodarma | INCU | 31,375 | 11.8% | Lost · 3rd |
| Lok Sabha 1977 | 103. Chatra | INC | 60,344 | 22.2% | Lost · 2nd |