Name in the record
MAHESH RAI
Also on ballots as Mahesh Rai
CAPS·BJP·BMUP·INC·PSP
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “MAHESH RAI” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 3 different states/UTs, a 67-year span across 7 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
7
1957–2024
Wins
2
Parties
5
States / UT
4
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.
| Election | Constituency | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sikkim1 contest · 2024–2024 · 0 won | |||||
| Sikkim 2024 | 16. Namchi-Singhithang | CAPS | 236 | 2.1% | Lost · 3rd |
| Madhya Pradesh3 contests · 2013–2023 · 2 won | |||||
| Madhya Pradesh 2023 | 43. Binaa | BJP | 66,303 | 46.5% | Lost · 2nd |
| Madhya Pradesh 2018 | 35. Bina | BJP | 57,828 | 45.8% | Won |
| Madhya Pradesh 2013 | 35. Bina | BJP | 61,356 | 51.3% | Won |
| Lok Sabha1 contest · 2014–2014 · 0 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 2014 | 74. Muzaffarpur | BMUP | 7,978 | 0.8% | Lost · 10th |
| Bihar2 contests · 1957–2010 · 0 won | |||||
| Bihar 2010 | 102. Kuchaikote | INC | 4,924 | 3.9% | Lost · 4th |
| Bihar 1957 | 182. Barhampur | PSP | 2,710 | 11.5% | Lost · 3rd |