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{{Short description|Vice-presidential election in India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}}
{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1992 Indian vice presidential election
| country = India
| type = presidential
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1987 Indian vice presidential election
| previous_year = 1987
| next_election = 1997 Indian vice presidential election
| next_year = 1997
| election_date = 19 August 1992
| image1 = {{CSS image crop|Image=The official portrait of Shri Kocheril Raman Narayanan, 10th President of the Republic of India.png|bSize=130|cWidth=100|cHeight=120|oLeft=15|oTop=05}}
| nominee1 = '''[[K. R. Narayanan]]'''
| party1 = Indian National Congress (Indira)
| home_state1 = [[Kerala]]
| electoral_vote1 = '''700'''
| percentage1 = '''99.86%'''
| image2 =
| nominee2 = [[Joginder Singh (politician)|Joginder Singh]]
| party2 = Independent politician
| home_state2 = [[Punjab, India|Punjab]]
| color2 = 32CF9D
| electoral_vote2 = 1
| percentage2 = 0.14%
| title = [[Vice President of India|Vice President]]
| before_election = ''Vacant, last held by'' [[Shankar Dayal Sharma]]
| before_party = Indian National Congress (Indira)
| after_election = [[K. R. Narayanan]]
| after_party = Indian National Congress (Indira)
}}
The '''1992 Indian vice presidential election''' was held on 19 August 1992 to elect the [[vice president of India]]. [[K. R. Narayanan]] defeated [[Joginder Singh (politician)|Joginder Singh]] to become [[List of Vice-Presidents of India|ninth]] vice president of India. Out of 701 valid votes, Narayanan received 700 votes, while Singh secured only one vote.<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> At the time of the election, VP office was vacant since the incumbent, [[Shankar Dayal Sharma]], had already inaugurated as [[President of India|President]] following his victory in the [[1992 Indian presidential election|presidential election]].

==Candidates==
<gallery perrow="2">
File:K. R. Narayanan.jpg|{{center|Academician and diplomat '''[[K. R. Narayanan]]'''}}
File:Emblem of India.svg|{{center|[[Perennial candidate]] '''[[Joginder Singh (politician)|Joginder Singh]]'''}}
</gallery>

==Result==
{{election table|title=Result of the Indian vice-presidential election, 1992|sortable=yes}}
|- align=center
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"|
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Candidate 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Party 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Electoral Votes 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes 
|-
| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress (Indira)}}
|align="left"|[[K. R. Narayanan]]||align="left"|[[Indian National Congress (Indira)|INC(I)]]||700||99.86
|-
|
|align="left"|[[Joginder Singh (politician)|Joginder Singh]]||align="left"|[[Independent politician|Independent]]||1||0.14
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#e9e9e9;"|
|-
! colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"| Total
! style="text-align:right;"|701
! style="text-align:right;"|100.00
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#e9e9e9;"|
|-
|-
|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Valid Votes||701||98.59
|-
|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Invalid Votes||10||1.41
|-
|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Turnout||711||90.00
|-
|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Abstentions||79||10.00
|-
|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Electors||790|| style="background:#e9e9e9;"|
|-
|}

==See also==
*[[1992 Indian presidential election]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Indian vice presidential elections}}

[[Category:Vice-presidential elections in India]]
[[Category:1992 elections in India|India]]

1992 Indian vice presidential election - Revision history

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