Name in the record
VIJAY KUMAR JOSHI
BSP·HVC·INC·IND·JNP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “VIJAY KUMAR JOSHI” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, 5 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
9
1977–2007
Wins
4
Parties
5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Himachal Pradesh8 contests · 1977–2007 · 4 won | |||||
| Himachal Pradesh 2007 | 31. Santokgarh | BSP | 2,414 | 4.1% | Lost · 3rd |
| Himachal Pradesh 2003 | 31. Santokgarh | HVC | 5,102 | 10.3% | Lost · 4th |
| Himachal Pradesh 1998 | 31. Santokgarh | HVC | 6,497 | 15.7% | Lost · 4th |
| Himachal Pradesh 1993 | 31. Santokgarh | INC | 13,292 | 33.9% | Won |
| Himachal Pradesh 1990 | 31. Santokgarh | INC | 12,451 | 30.7% | Lost · 2nd |
| Himachal Pradesh 1985 | 31. Santokgarh | INC | 15,591 | 48.6% | Won |
| Himachal Pradesh 1982 | 31. Santokgarh | INC | 10,589 | 36.2% | Won |
| Himachal Pradesh 1977 | 31. Santokgarh | JNP | 14,058 | 56.1% | Won |
| Rajasthan1 contest · 1993–1993 · 0 won | |||||
| Rajasthan 1993 | 125. Nimbahera | IND | 214 | 0.2% | Lost · 8th |