Name in the record
UMESH RAI
BJP·IND·JNPSR
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “UMESH RAI” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs, a 46-year span across 7 contests — 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
1980–2026
Wins
1
Parties
3
States / UT
2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Bengal3 contests · 2011–2026 · 1 won | |||||
| West Bengal 2026 | 170. Howrah Uttar | BJP | 67,539 | 50.8% | Won |
| West Bengal 2021 | 170. Howrah Uttar | BJP | 66,053 | 44.1% | Lost · 2nd |
| West Bengal 2011 | 170. Howrah Uttar | BJP | 16,494 | 13.2% | Lost · 3rd |
| Bihar4 contests · 1980–1995 · 0 won | |||||
| Bihar 1995 | 53. Paru | IND | 27 | 0.0% | Lost · 42th |
| Bihar 1990 | 89. Darbhanga | IND | 24 | 0.0% | Lost · 37th |
| Bihar 1985 | 92. Hayaghat | IND | 281 | 0.4% | Lost · 13th |
| Bihar 1980 | 92. Hayaghat | JNPSR | 3,186 | 4.0% | Lost · 5th |