Name in the record
VIDYA DHAR
INC·IND·DDP·JNPSR
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “VIDYA DHAR” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 3 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 47-year span across 10 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
10
1951–1998
Wins
1
Parties
4
States / UT
3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Himachal Pradesh4 contests · 1951–1998 · 0 won | |||||
| Himachal Pradesh 1998 | 52. Rajnagar | INC | 12,739 | 36.1% | Lost · 2nd |
| Himachal Pradesh 1982 | 52. Rajnagar | INC | 11,885 | 49.2% | Lost · 2nd |
| Himachal Pradesh 1977 | 52. Rajnagar | INC | 4,367 | 30.5% | Lost · 2nd |
| Himachal Pradesh 1951 | 20. Churah | INC | 3,009 | 26.6% | Lost · 2nd |
| Uttar Pradesh5 contests · 1974–1991 · 1 won | |||||
| Uttar Pradesh 1991 | 75. Biswan | IND | 412 | 0.5% | Lost · 10th |
| Uttar Pradesh 1989 | 335. Madhogarh | DDP | 843 | 0.9% | Lost · 7th |
| Uttar Pradesh 1980 | 76. Mahmoodabad | IND | 1,879 | 2.1% | Lost · 4th |
| Uttar Pradesh 1974 | 270. Jhusi | INC | 22,909 | 38.6% | Won |
| Uttar Pradesh 1974 | 401. Baghpat | IND | 358 | 0.5% | Lost · 10th |
| Rajasthan1 contest · 1980–1980 · 0 won | |||||
| Rajasthan 1980 | 26. Gudha | JNPSR | 1,417 | 2.5% | Lost · 4th |