Name in the record
VISHNU DAYAL
BJP·IND·JNP·INC·PSP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “VISHNU DAYAL” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs, 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
8
1962–1989
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.
| Election | Constituency | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh6 contests · 1974–1989 · 2 won | |||||
| Uttar Pradesh 1989 | 153. Ikauna | BJP | 16,698 | 28.6% | Won |
| Uttar Pradesh 1985 | 153. Ikauna | BJP | 8,257 | 27.4% | Lost · 2nd |
| Uttar Pradesh 1985 | 312. Farrukhabad | IND | 95 | 0.2% | Lost · 17th |
| Uttar Pradesh 1977 | 153. Ikauna | JNP | 16,580 | 60.9% | Won |
| Uttar Pradesh 1977 | 340. Jasrana | INC | 17,034 | 33.5% | Lost · 2nd |
| Uttar Pradesh 1974 | 340. Jasrana | INC | 22,994 | 31.8% | Lost · 2nd |
| Lok Sabha1 contest · 1962–1962 · 0 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 1962 | 442. Mainpuri | PSP | 31,186 | 13.1% | Lost · 5th |
| Madhya Pradesh1 contest · 1962–1962 · 0 won | |||||
| Madhya Pradesh 1962 | 20. Seondha | IND | 738 | 3.1% | Lost · 4th |