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Name in the record

VISHWANATH SHARMA

IND·BJP·LKD·HMS·SP

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “VISHWANATH SHARMA” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs, a 49-year span across 6 contests, 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
6
1951–2000
Wins
1
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.

ElectionConstituencyPartyVotesShareResult
Bihar2 contests · 19902000 · 0 won
Bihar 20003. RamnagarIND1810.2%Lost · 12th
Bihar 1990280. TundiIND1,4091.8%Lost · 5th
Lok Sabha3 contests · 19511991 · 1 won
Lok Sabha 1991455. HamirpurBJP94,13724.5%Won
Lok Sabha 1984448. JhansiLKD15,2153.3%Lost · 3rd
Lok Sabha 1951314. Banaras District (Central)SP39,44624.3%Lost · 2nd
Madhya Pradesh1 contest · 19621962 · 0 won
Madhya Pradesh 196222. KareraHMS1,8529.2%Lost · 3rd