Name in the record
VATAL NAGARAJ
Also on ballots as Vatal Nagaraj
KCVP·IND
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “VATAL NAGARAJ” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 52-year span across 17 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
17
1972–2024
Wins
3
Parties
2
States / UT
2
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.