Name in the record
SHANKER
BJSH·IND·NCP·DDP·BJP·JNP·SOC·BJS
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “SHANKER” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 6 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 57-year span across 27 contests, 8 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
27
1951–2008
Wins
1
Parties
8
States / UT
7
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.