Election
Name in the record

GOPAL LAL

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This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “GOPAL LAL” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 72-year span across 16 contests, 8 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
16
1951–2023
Wins
1
Parties
8
States / UT
1