Name in the record
HARIRAM
RLP·BSP·BSS·AAP·RSPS·BSRD·IND·INC·SPI·ARVP·DDP·CPM·JS
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “HARIRAM” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 4 different states/UTs, a 61-year span across 26 contests, 13 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
26
1962–2023
Wins
0
Parties
13
States / UT
5
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.