Name in the record
SHYAM NARAIN
SP·INC·BJP·IND·BSP·SHS·JP·JNPSC·BKD·BJS·SSP·CPI·RRP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “SHYAM NARAIN” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 61-year span across 31 contests, 13 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
31
1951–2012
Wins
2
Parties
13
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.