Methodology · Members Recorded for Rajasthan, by Lok Sabha Terms Served

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WHAT IS RANKED, AND WHAT IT MEASURES. The number of Lok Sabhas each member sat in, as the Lok Sabha's own register records it in the `noOfTerms` field. It is a count kept by the House about its own membership — measured, not estimated — which is why no figure on this page carries an "estimate" marker and why this ranking clears this site's original sourcing rule as well as its current one. WHY THE TITLE SAYS "RECORDED FOR RAJASTHAN" AND NOT "FROM RAJASTHAN". Because the figure ranked here is not a count of Rajasthan terms and no honest title can imply that it is. The register files each member under one state and counts every Lok Sabha they sat in, wherever they sat for it. Buta Singh heads this list on eight terms; four of them he sat for Punjab, moving to Jalore only in the 8th Lok Sabha. The register offers no way to separate the two, so this page ranks what the register actually counts and says so in its own title. WHAT IT DOES NOT MEASURE. Influence, office held, majority, or length of service in years. A member elected at a by-election a month before dissolution is credited with a term exactly as one elected at a general election is. Terms are a count of Houses sat in, not of time served. THE CUT-OFF. 3 terms or more, stated rather than left implicit. 211 of the 260 members on the register fall below it and appear on the full register list instead. TIES. Many members share a term count and the site's ranking cannot: an edition holds one entry per rank. Members on the same count are placed alphabetically and the count itself is shown against every row, so a tie is visible rather than hidden inside a rank number. WHAT THIS LIST DOES NOT SAY. It does not say that anybody on it is Marwari. This site never assigns ethnicity to anyone; it records what a published source has said, with a link, and the register cited here says nothing on the subject. These are the people Rajasthan sent to Parliament, which is a fact about the state, not about a community. SOURCE AND ITS STANDARD. The Lok Sabha's own member register, published by the Lok Sabha Secretariat at sansad.in — the state's own record of its own membership. Every claim on this page rests on it and on nothing else. That register is a tier-A source, so these pages meet this site's STRICT sourcing standard — the "record" standard of the original charter, under which only a filing, a disclosure, the state's own record or named-byline journalism may back a published claim. The site's current standard is looser than that and would have accepted an encyclopaedia; this dataset does not use the latitude, and no claim here is marked "aggregated source". Pages about named, mostly living people are the wrong place to spend a relaxation. Each member's citation quotes their row in the register, transcribed under the register's own column headings, so every value on this page can be found again in the document at the cited URL. No citation carries an archive snapshot: the seeder's citation type has no field for one, which is a gap in the tooling rather than a judgement about this source.

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