Election
Name in the record

VIRENDRA PRASAD

IND·LKD·BJP·JNP·BJS

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “VIRENDRA PRASAD” 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
12
1972–2010
Wins
2
Parties
5
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.