Name in the record
SOM MARANDI
Also on ballots as Som Marandi
JVM·BJP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “SOM MARANDI” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs — 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
6
1995–2009
Wins
1
Parties
2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lok Sabha4 contests · 1998–2009 · 1 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 2009 | 169. Rajmahal | JVM | 40,193 | 6.2% | Lost · 5th |
| Lok Sabha 2004 | 169. Rajmahal | BJP | 1,92,454 | 27.8% | Lost · 3rd |
| Lok Sabha 1999 | 85. Rajmahal | BJP | 1,88,199 | 33.6% | Lost · 2nd |
| Lok Sabha 1998 | 85. Rajmahal | BJP | 1,98,889 | 34.0% | Won |
| Jharkhand1 contest · 2005–2005 · 0 won | |||||
| Jharkhand 2005 | 4. Litipara | BJP | 22,464 | 24.5% | Lost · 2nd |
| Bihar1 contest · 1995–1995 · 0 won | |||||
| Bihar 1995 | 150. Litipara | BJP | 9,366 | 12.3% | Lost · 3rd |