Election
Name in the record

ABDUL GHAFOOR

Also on ballots as Abdul Ghafoor

IND·RJD·SAP·JD·INC·INCU

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “ABDUL GHAFOOR” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 63-year span across 10 contests, 6 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.

Also recorded as

Other spellings of what is very likely the same person — names are stored as free text, so word order, initials and joined words split a career across pages.

Ballot lines
10
1957–2020
Wins
7
Parties
6
States / UT
2
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
Bihar5 contests · 1957–2020 · 4 won
Bihar 202054. KishanganjIND9780.5%Lost · 12th
Bihar 2000118. MahishiRJD49,43136.3%Won
Bihar 198025. BarauliINCU24,08440.6%Won
Bihar 196223. GopalganjINC18,16152.1%Won
Bihar 195719. BarauliINC8,57239.3%Won
Lok Sabha5 contests · 1977–1998 · 3 won
Lok Sabha 199863. GopalganjSAP3,22,01245.7%Won
Lok Sabha 199163. GopalganjJD3,51,24350.3%Won
Lok Sabha 198450. SiwanINC2,50,23560.3%Won
Lok Sabha 198051. GopalganjINCU66,23319.7%Lost · 3rd
Lok Sabha 197763. GopalganjINC1,21,47428.9%Lost · 2nd