Name in the record
GANGADHAR NAYAK
Also on ballots as Gangadhar Nayak
NAPt·KJP·BJP·JDS·INCU
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “GANGADHAR NAYAK” 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
6
1980–2024
Wins
0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Odisha3 contests · 1980–2024 · 0 won | |||||
| Odisha 2024 | 105. Nilgiri | NAPt | 264 | 0.2% | Lost · 6th |
| Odisha 2000 | 87. Chitrakonda | BJP | 10,993 | 16.9% | Lost · 3rd |
| Odisha 1980 | 104. Phulbari | INCU | 1,160 | 4.3% | Lost · 3rd |
| Karnataka3 contests · 2004–2013 · 0 won | |||||
| Karnataka 2013 | 55. Manvi | KJP | 14,465 | 11.9% | Lost · 3rd |
| Karnataka 2008 | 55. Manvi | BJP | 35,771 | 33.5% | Lost · 2nd |
| Karnataka 2004 | 23. Manvi | JDS | 20,623 | 20.7% | Lost · 3rd |