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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Vice-presidential election in India}}<br />
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{{Infobox election<br />
| election_name = 1957 Indian vice presidential election<br />
| country = India<br />
| type = presidential<br />
| ongoing = no<br />
| previous_election = 1952 Indian vice presidential election<br />
| previous_year = 1952<br />
| next_election = 1962 Indian vice presidential election<br />
| next_year = 1962<br />
| election_date = 11 May 1957<br />
| image1 = Photograph of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan presented to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in 1962.jpg<br />
| nominee1 = [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]]<br />
| party1 = Independent politician<br />
| home_state1 = [[Tamil Nadu]]<br />
| electoral_vote1 = '''Unopposed'''<br />
| color1 = ABCDEF<br />
| title = [[Vice President of India|Vice President]]<br />
| before_election = [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]]<br />
| before_party = Independent politician<br />
| after_election = [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]]<br />
| after_party = Independent politician<br />
}}<br />
The '''1957 Indian vice presidential election''' was held in 1957 to elect the [[vice president of India]]. [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]] was reelected unopposed.<ref name=eci>[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/President_VP_Elec2012/Vice%20Presidentail%20Election%20Background.pdf BACKGROUND MATERIAL REGARDING FOURTEENTH ELECTION TO THE OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT, 2012, ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA]</ref> Had the election been contested by more than one candidate, the poll would have occurred on 11 May 1957.<br />
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==Schedule==<br />
The election schedule was announced by the [[Election Commission of India]] on 9 April 1957.<ref name=election2017>{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/6926-background-material-related-to-election-to-the-office-of-vice-president-of-india-2017/ |title=Background material related to Election to the office of Vice-President of India, 2017 |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] |access-date= 26 January 2022}}</ref><br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
!S.No.<br />
!Poll Event<br />
!Date<br />
|-<br />
!1.<br />
| Last Date for filing nomination<br />
| 18 April 1957<br />
|-<br />
!2.<br />
| Date for Scrutiny of nomination<br />
| 20 April 1957<br />
|-<br />
!3.<br />
| Last Date for Withdrawal of nomination<br />
| 23 April 1957<br />
|-<br />
!4.<br />
| Date of Poll<br />
| 11 May 1957<br />
|-<br />
!5.<br />
| '''Date of Counting'''<br />
|colspan="2" style="text-align:center| '''NA'''<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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==Result==<br />
The Electoral College consisted of 735 members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. Dr. Radhakrishnan was the only validly nominated candidate and hence he was declared as elected unopposed, to the office of the Vice-President on 23 April 1957. He started his second term on 13 May 1957.<ref name=election2017/><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[1957 Indian presidential election]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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{{Indian vice presidential elections}}<br />
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[[Category:Vice-presidential elections in India]]<br />
[[Category:1957 elections in India|India]]<br />
[[Category:Uncontested elections|Indian vice presidential election, 1957]]</div>TeresaBrousseau