Name in the record
SHANKAR PASWAN
IND·CPIMLL·LJP·JDU·ABMSD
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “SHANKAR PASWAN” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs, 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
10
1990–2015
Wins
0
Parties
5
States / UT
3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bihar8 contests · 1990–2015 · 0 won | |||||
| Bihar 2015 | 131. Kalyanpur(Sc) | IND | 5,627 | 3.3% | Lost · 4th |
| Bihar 2015 | 227. Imamganj | CPIMLL | 2,109 | 1.4% | Lost · 8th |
| Bihar 2000 | 63. Minapur | IND | 189 | 0.2% | Lost · 15th |
| Bihar 2000 | 71. Sursand | IND | 122 | 0.1% | Lost · 11th |
| Bihar 2000 | 158. Deoghar | JDU | 27,398 | 23.3% | Lost · 2nd |
| Bihar 2000 | 170. Bihpur | IND | 824 | 0.8% | Lost · 10th |
| Bihar 1995 | 68. Bathnaha | IND | 112 | 0.1% | Lost · 35th |
| Bihar 1990 | 58. Sakra | IND | 570 | 0.6% | Lost · 8th |
| Jharkhand1 contest · 2005–2005 · 0 won | |||||
| Jharkhand 2005 | 15. Deoghar | LJP | 9,351 | 6.4% | Lost · 4th |
| Lok Sabha1 contest · 1998–1998 · 0 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 1998 | 88. Banka | ABMSD | 17,368 | 2.5% | Lost · 4th |