Name in the record
SURENDRA SHARMA
BLRP·CPI·CPIMLL·IND·JDU·SAP·SHS·JNPS·JNPSC
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “SURENDRA SHARMA” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 6 different states/UTs, a 40-year span across 17 contests, 9 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
17
1980–2020
Wins
1
Parties
9
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.