Vidya Bhushan : Political Career

Election history

            All the elections where a candidate by the name Vidya Bhushan contested in whether lost or won, by how many votes. His/ her vote share etc details all can be found here.
          

1996 for Lok Sabha from Rajnandgaon

LOST against Ashok Sharma

with 1% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Ashok Sharma	BJP	222,616
Shivendra Bahadur Singh	INC	163,340
Balbir Khanuja	AIIC(T)	25,216
Ashok Sahu	BSP	13,109
Derharam	IND	12,579
Jankiram	IND	10,237
Bhimrao Bagde	CMM	9,350
Chameli Yadav	IND	6,037
Vidya Bhushan Thakur	IND	4,706
Khan Mustak Ahmed	IND	4,226
Ashok Kumar Pande	IND	3,846
Digambar Shandilya	IND	3,276
Ghanshyam Kishordas	IND	2,782
Ramchandra Gupta	IND	1,981
Suresh Gandhi	IND	1,866
Gariba Chaudhary	IND	1,388
Murlidhar Sahu	IND	1,327
Md. Zakir Khan	IND	1,319
Lakhanshah Kunjam	IND	1,044
Dhanu Ram	IND	1,043
Navrang Chauhan	IND	915
Sushil Sharma	IND	901
Kirti Bhushan Pande	IND	826
Gautamchand Kotadya	IND	755
Keshar Bai	IND	654
Abdul Yusuf Bhai	IND	637
Mohan Lal	IND	557
Shushil Kumar Namdev	IND	469
Padamsingh Kothari	IND	429
Haider Bhati	IND	361
Vijay Bahadur Singh	IND	320
Lalit Varma	IND	199

1991 for Lok Sabha from Rajnandgaon

LOST against Shivendra Bahadur Singh

with 1% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Shivendra Bahadur Singh	INC	178,132
Dharampal Singh Gupta	BJP	130,722
Darbar Singh	JD	34,259
Nathu Dada	IND	5,149
Manoj Kumar Ostwal	IND	4,151
Rohit Kumar Sahu	IND	3,456
Bisahu Ram Sahu	DDP	3,286
Arjun Chandrawanshi	IND	2,616
Prakash Chandra Atri	LKD	2,402
Vidya Bhushan Thakur	JP	2,383
Krishna Kumar Soni	IND	2,220
Harish Chandra Rishi	IND	1,673
Shakuntala Tiwari (W)	IND	1,602
Gariba Choudhary	IND	1,545
Gautam Chindu	IND	1,490
R.B. Dwevedi	IND	1,335
Babulal Dewangan	IND	754
Kishor Kumar Jain	IND	740
Motilal Sahu	IND	716
Vishnu Kumar Soni	IND	706
Sushil Kumar Kaku	IND	460
Sampat Lal Jain	IND	313
Vishnu Prasad Sharma	IND	289

1990 for Vidhan Sabha from Dongargaon

LOST against Geeta Devi Singh

with 5% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Geeta Devi Singh	INC	19,649
Madan Tiwari	JD	17,368
Chandranath (Chaman Soni)	IND	3,033
Vidya Bhushan Thakur	IND	2,273
Subedar Ramji Lal	IND	935
Nand Kishor	IND	654
Somnath	IND	493
Pardeshi	IND	463
Hariom	DDP	264
Nanak Singh Thakur	IND	233
Girija Shankar Mishra	IND	139
Vidya Bhushan	IND	128
V. P. (Vishnu Prasad) Singh	IND	106
Gariba Choudhary	IND	97
Mansa Ram	IND	66
Shrikant Thakur	IND	64

1990 for Vidhan Sabha from Dongargaon

LOST against Geeta Devi Singh

with 0% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Geeta Devi Singh	INC	19,649
Madan Tiwari	JD	17,368
Chandranath (Chaman Soni)	IND	3,033
Vidya Bhushan Thakur	IND	2,273
Subedar Ramji Lal	IND	935
Nand Kishor	IND	654
Somnath	IND	493
Pardeshi	IND	463
Hariom	DDP	264
Nanak Singh Thakur	IND	233
Girija Shankar Mishra	IND	139
Vidya Bhushan	IND	128
V. P. (Vishnu Prasad) Singh	IND	106
Gariba Choudhary	IND	97
Mansa Ram	IND	66
Shrikant Thakur	IND	64

1990 for Vidhan Sabha from Rewa

LOST against Pushpraj Singh (Rewa)

with 0% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Pushpraj Singh (Rewa)	INC	39,159
Prem Lal Mishra	JD	11,613
Abdul Lateef	BSP	8,362
Rajendra Prasad Tamrakar	IND	3,311
Rajesh Tiwari	IND	2,918
Ramnihore	IND	1,335
Ravindra Sharma	IND	1,235
Shankuntala Pandey	IND	792
Narayan Digwani	IND	749
Sushil Kumar Singh	IND	622
Charu Jha	PVP	522
Omkar Prasad	DDP	501
Nagendra Singh	IND	489
Bhragunath Singh	IND	470
Ram Kirshna	IND	455
Lakhan Lal Khandelwal	IND	444
Ambika Prasad Sharma	IND	424
Suraj Prasad Vishwakarma	IND	410
Bajrang Prasad Tiwari	IND	351
Ramkripal	IND	325
Guru Vidya Bhushan	IND	271
Idpal	IND	221
Ram Gopal	IND	218
Harsh Narayan Singh	IND	196
Janardan Prasad Pandey	IND	194
Ramesh Kumar	IND	179
Rajendra Mishra	HMS	179
Harsharan Prasad Dwivedi	IND	177
Rajendra Kumar Awasthi	IND	164
Ashok Kumar Sodhiya	IND	160
Subhash Srivastava	LKD(B)	159
Anju Shrivastava	IND	159
Shekh Habab	JNP	149
Mohd Rashid	IND	148
Daddi Kol	IND	145
Brijendra Nath Pandey	IND	136
Rajnish Chaturvedi	IND	127
Chande Ram	IND	114
Pushpraj Singh (Urdana)	IND	113
Katahur Lal Saket	IND	112
Shyam Bharti	IND	105
Vidya Devi	IND	90
Dinesh Kumar Jain	IND	87
Gyanendra	IND	81
Rang Lal Singh Akash Pakad	IND	78
Jamaluddin Siddiqi	IND	71
Hafiz Mohd. Yaseen	IND	60
Gaya Prasad Singh Patel	IND	48
Ram Laxman Gupta	IND	48

1984 for Lok Sabha from Rajnandgaon

LOST against Shivendra Bahadur Singh

with 1% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Shivendra Bahadur Singh	INC	165,891
Kishorilal Shukla	IND	64,838
Swami Agnivesh	JNP	36,892
Shiv Kumar Shastri	BJP	32,465
Abhaichaitanya Bramchhari	IND	9,061
Gariba Choudhary	IND	8,451
Narmada Pd. Mishra Maharaj Kavidhadhi	IND	5,006
Prem Narayan Verma	IND	2,776
Vidya Bhushan Thakur	IND	2,369
Lakhan Shah Kunjan	IND	2,154
Subedar Ramjilal	IND	2,026
Hira Singh Sahu	IND	1,366
Shrikrishan	IND	1,359
Ramkrishna Nirwani	IND	1,003

1980 for Lok Sabha from Rajnandgaon

LOST against Shivendra Bahadur Singh

with 4% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Shivendra Bahadur Singh	INC(I)	121,747
J.P.L. Francis	JNP	63,251
Madan Tiwari	JNP(S)	18,303
Lal Shyam Shah	IND	15,343
Vidya Bhushan Thakur	IND	11,739
Triyoginarayan Tiwari (Jugga Maharaj)	IND	10,717
Abhai Chaitanya Brahmchari	IND	7,770
Narmada Prasad Jageshwar Prasad	IND	5,704
Ram Prasad Agarwal	IND	5,536
Nirmal Chand Deshlahara	IND	5,038
Ramjilal	IND	3,823
Mohammad Afrzal	IND	2,797

1977 for Vidhan Sabha from Dongargaon

WON against Heeraram Varma

with 56% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Vidya Bhushan Thakur	JNP	15,478
Heeraram Varma	INC	5,485
Ganeshmal Bhandari	IND	2,136
Magalchand Jain	IND	1,291
Dharsingh Saha	IND	1,092
Girdhailal	IND	665
Sureshchandra Girdharilal	IND	464
Mangilal Jain	IND	364
Shyamlal Khandelwal	IND	270
Ramniwas Sharma	IND	224
Hridaynarayan Nirvani	IND	62

1972 for Vidhan Sabha from Rewa

LOST against Muni Prasad Shukla

with 2% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Muni Prasad Shukla	INC	22,446
Jagdish Chandra Joshi	SOP	19,197
Madhav Prasad	BJS	1,890
Guru Vidya Bhushan	IND	961
Ramkripal Tamrakar	IND	380