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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|2nd Indian presidential election}}<br />
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{{Infobox election<br />
| election_name = 1957 Indian presidential election<br />
| country = India<br />
| type = presidential<br />
| ongoing = no<br />
| previous_election = 1952 Indian presidential election<br />
| previous_year = 1952<br />
| next_election = 1962 Indian presidential election<br />
| next_year = 1962<br />
| election_date = 6 May 1957<br />
| image1 = [[File:Food Minister Rajendra Prasad during a radio broadcast in Dec 1947 cropped.jpg|150px]]<br />
| nominee1 = '''[[Rajendra Prasad]]'''<br />
| party1 = Indian National Congress<br />
| home_state1 = [[Bihar]]<br />
| electoral_vote1 = 459,698<br />
| image2 = [[Image:No image.svg|100px]]<br />
| nominee2 = Chowdhry Hari Ram<br />
| party2 = Independent (India)<br />
| home_state2 = [[Punjab (India)|Punjab]]<br />
| electoral_vote2 = 2,672<br />
| title = President<br />
| before_election = [[Rajendra Prasad]]<br />
| before_party = Independent (politician)<br />
| after_election = [[Rajendra Prasad]]<br />
| after_party = Independent (politician)<br />
}}<br />
The Election Commission of India held indirect 2nd [[President of India|presidential elections of India]] on 6 May 1957. [[Rajendra Prasad|Dr. Rajendra Prasad]] won his re-election with 459,698 votes over his rivals Chowdhry Hari Ram who got 2,672 votes and Nagendra Narayan Das who got 2,000 votes. [[Rajendra Prasad]], has been the only person, to have won and served two terms, as President of India.<br />
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==Results==<br />
{| class="wikitable" border="1"<br />
|-<br />
!Candidate<br />
!Votes<ref>http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/miscellaneous_statistics/PresdElec/BriefNotes.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102100656/http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/miscellaneous_statistics/PresdElec/BriefNotes.pdf |date=2013-11-02 }} Election Commission of India</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiaonestop.com/Presidency/presidential_candidates.htm|title=PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES|website=www.indiaonestop.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/02june08/national.htm#1 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-05-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927201348/http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/02june08/national.htm#1 |archive-date=2007-09-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aol.in/news-story/the-indian-president-past-winners-and-losers/2007061905199019000001|title=Yahoo!|website=www.aol.in}}</ref><br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Rajendra Prasad]]'''<br />
|'''459,698'''<br />
|-<br />
|Chowdhry Hari Ram<br />
|2,672<br />
|-<br />
|Nagendra Narayan Das<br />
|2,000<br />
|-<br />
|'''Total'''<br />
|'''464,370'''<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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==References==<br />
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{{Indian presidential elections}}<br />
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