The election of the President of India is an indirect election in which an electoral college consisting of the elected members of both houses of parliament (M.P.s), the elected members of the state legislative assemblies (Vidhan Sabhas) of all states and the elected members of the legislative assemblies (MLAs) of union territories with legislatures, i.e., National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, and Puducherry elect the president. The election process of the president is a more extensive process than of the prime minister who is also elected indirectly (not elected by people directly) by the Lok Sabha members only. Whereas President being the constitutional head with duties to protect, defend and preserve the constitution and rule of law in a constitutional democracy with constitutional supremacy, is elected in an extensive manner by the members of Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and state legislative assemblies in a secret ballot procedure.
Electoral college results YearPartyAlliancePresidential candidateElectoral votesStates CarriedResult Portrait Name Votes %1950 Rajendra Prasad Unopposed201952 Rajendra Prasad507,40083.81%20 K. T. Shah92,82715.33%01957 Rajendra Prasad459,69898.99%20 Chaudhary Hari Ram2,6720.43%01962 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan553,06798.2%25 Chaudhary Hari Ram6,3411.1%01967 Zakir Husain471,24456.2%21 Koka Subba Rao363,97143.4%51969 V. V. Giri420,07750.9%21 Neelam Sanjiva Reddy405,42749.1%71974 Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed754,11379.9%26 Tridib Chaudhuri189,19620.1%21977 Neelam Sanjiva Reddy Unopposed281982 Zail Singh754,11372.7%26 Hans Raj Khanna282,68527.3%21987 Ramaswamy Venkataraman740,14872.3%27 V. R. Krishna Iyer281,55027.5%41992 Shankar Dayal Sharma675,86465.9%25 George Gilbert Swell346,48533.8%61997 K. R. Narayanan956,29095.0%31 T. N. Seshan50,6315.0%02002 NDAA. P. J. Abdul Kalam922,88489.6%28 LFLakshmi Sahgal107,36610.4%22007 UPAPratibha Patil638,11665.8%23 NDABhairon Singh Shekhawat331,30634.2%72012 UPAPranab Mukherjee713,76369.3%22 NDAP. A. Sangma315,98730.7%82017 NDARam Nath Kovind702,04465.65%21 UPAMeira Kumar367,31434.35%102022 NDADroupadi Murmu 676,80364.03%22 UOYashwant Sinha380,17735.97%8
See also Elections in India Electoral College List of Indian vice presidential elections List of Rajya Sabha elections List of Indian general elections List of Indian state legislative assembly elections
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