Name in the record
SURESH MEHTA
JAPL·RJD·CPIMLL·LKDB·JNP·IND
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “SURESH MEHTA” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, 6 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
7
1977–2015
Wins
1
Parties
6
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bihar4 contests · 1990–2015 · 1 won | |||||
| Bihar 2015 | 224. Rafiganj | JAPL | 1,442 | 0.9% | Lost · 12th |
| Bihar 2000 | 238. Aurangabad | RJD | 41,176 | 35.5% | Won |
| Bihar 1995 | 222. Jagdishpur | CPIMLL | 21,420 | 21.0% | Lost · 2nd |
| Bihar 1990 | 123. Alamnagar | LKDB | 1,232 | 1.3% | Lost · 6th |
| Lok Sabha2 contests · 1977–1996 · 0 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 1996 | 96. Buxar | CPIMLL | 61,148 | 10.4% | Lost · 3rd |
| Lok Sabha 1977 | 131. Amreli | IND | 23,243 | 9.0% | Lost · 3rd |
| Gujarat1 contest · 1990–1990 · 0 won | |||||
| Gujarat 1990 | 44. Lathi | JNP | 560 | 1.0% | Lost · 3rd |