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{{Short description|Vice-presidential election in India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}}
{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1974 Indian vice presidential election
| country = India
| type = presidential
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1969 Indian vice presidential election
| previous_year = 1969
| next_election = 1979 Indian vice presidential election
| next_year = 1979
| election_date = 27 August 1974
| image1 = [[File:B.D Jatti (enhanced).jpg|160x150px]]
| nominee1 = '''[[B. D. Jatti|Basappa Danappa Jatti]]'''
| party1 = Indian National Congress (R)
| color1= 856854
| color2=2628FF
| home_state1 = [[Karnataka]]
| electoral_vote1 = '''521'''
| percentage1 = '''78.70%'''
| image2 = [[File:Emblem of India.svg|160x150px]]
| nominee2 = [[Niral Enem Horo]]
| party2 = [[Jharkhand Party]]
| home_state2 = [[Bihar]]
| electoral_vote2 = 141
| percentage2 = 21.30%
| title = [[Vice President of India|Vice President]]
| before_election = [[Gopal Swarup Pathak]]
| before_party = Independent politician
| after_election = [[B. D. Jatti|Basappa Danappa Jatti]]
| after_party = Indian National Congress (R)
}}

The '''1974 Indian vice presidential election''' was held on 27 August 1974. [[B. D. Jatti]] defeated his opponent, [[Niral Enem Horo]] to become the fifth [[vice president of India]].<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>

There were some changes in the law regarding vice-presidential elections, as follows:
* The nomination paper of a vice-presidential candidate shall be subscribed by at least 5 electors as proposers and 5 electors as seconders.
* The security deposit was changed to [[Indian rupee|Rs]]. 2,500.
* An election petition challenging an election can be presented only before the [[Supreme Court of India|Supreme Court]] by any candidate or at least 10 electors joined as petitioners.
* The time table for the elections to the offices of the President and Vice-President was made statutory. It was provided that the last date for making nominations shall be the 14th day after the publication of the notification calling the election, the scrutiny will be on the day following such last date for filing nominations, the last date for withdrawal of candidatures will be the second day following the date of scrutiny and the date of poll, if necessary, shall be not earlier than the fifteenth day after the last date for withdrawal of candidatures.

==Result==
{{election table|title=Result of the Indian vice-presidential election, 1974|sortable=yes}}
|- align=center
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Candidate<br />
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Party<br />
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Electoral Votes<br />
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes<br />
|-
|align="left"|[[B. D. Jatti]]||align="left"|[[Indian National Congress (R)|INC(R)]]||521||78.70
|-
|align="left"|[[Niral Enem Horo]]||align="left"|[[Jharkhand Party]]||141||21.30
|-
| colspan="4" style="background:#e9e9e9;"|
|-
! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"| Total
! style="text-align:right;"|662
! style="text-align:right;"|100.00
|-
| colspan="4" style="background:#e9e9e9;"|
|-
|-
|colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Valid Votes||662||98.51
|-
|colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Invalid Votes||10||1.49
|-
|colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Turnout||672||87.61
|-
|colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Abstentions||95||12.39
|-
|colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Electors||767|| style="background:#e9e9e9;"|
|-
|}

==See also==
*[[1974 Indian presidential election]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Indian vice presidential elections}}

[[Category:Vice-presidential elections in India]]
[[Category:1974 elections in India|India]]

1974 Indian vice presidential election - Revision history

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