EElectionLens
Name in the record

SURYA NARAIN

ABRCD·NLP·IND·LKD·JNP·NCO·SSP·JS·BJS

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “SURYA NARAIN” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 47-year span across 16 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
16
1951–1998
Wins
1
Parties
9
States / UT
3
incl. Lok Sabha