Name in the record
UMESH PASWAN
Also on ballots as Umesh Paswan
IND·JTLP·AKBMP·JMM·BMF·CPIMLL
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “UMESH PASWAN” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs, 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
19
1995–2024
Wins
0
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.