Name in the record
SHANMUGAM, P.
Also on ballots as SHANMUGAM P., SHANMUGAM P, SHANMUGAM.P, SHANMUGAM. P …
IND·DMK·TMM·ADKJL
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “SHANMUGAM, P.” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 46-year span across 30 contests — 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
30
1980–2026
Wins
1
Parties
4
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.