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{{Short description|Vice-presidential election in India}}
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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 2012 Indian vice presidential election
| country = India
| type =presidential
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 2007 Indian vice presidential election
| previous_year = 2007
| next_election = 2017 Indian vice presidential election
| next_year = 2017
| election_date = 7 August 2012
| image1 = {{CSS image crop|Image=Official portrait of Shri Mohammed Hamid Ansari, The Vice President of India, 2014.jpg|bSize=100|cWidth=80|cHeight=100|oLeft=14|oTop=05}}
| nominee1 = '''[[Mohammad Hamid Ansari]]'''
| party1 = Indian National Congress
| alliance1 = United Progressive Alliance
| home_state1 = [[West Bengal]]
| electoral_vote1 = '''490'''
| percentage1 = '''67.31%'''
| image2 = {{CSS image crop|Image=Jaswant Singh as Defence Minister of India.jpg|bSize=100|cWidth=80|cHeight=100|oLeft=10|oTop=05}}
| nominee2 = [[Jaswant Singh]]
| party2 = Bharatiya Janata Party
| alliance2 = National Democratic Alliance (India)
| home_state2 = [[Rajasthan]]
| electoral_vote2 = 238
| percentage2 = 32.69%
| title = [[Vice President of India|Vice President]]
| before_election = [[Mohammad Hamid Ansari]]
| before_party = Indian National Congress
| after_election = [[Mohammad Hamid Ansari]]
| after_party = Indian National Congress
}}
{{Politics of India}}

The '''2012 Indian vice presidential election''' was held on 7 August 2012<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/bjp-to-field-candidate-for-vice-president-against-hamid-ansari-243377|title=BJP to field candidate for vice-president against Hamid Ansari|date=15 July 2012|access-date=3 August 2012|publisher=NDTV}}</ref> to elect the [[vice president of India]]. [[Mohammad Hamid Ansari]] was the incumbent and the [[United Progressive Alliance|UPA]] candidate. The other prime candidate was the [[National Democratic Alliance (India)|NDA]]'s [[Jaswant Singh]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_ansari-may-write-to-mps-of-upa-and-supporting-parties_1723691|title=Jaswant Singh to give stature to vice-president poll contest|date=16 July 2012|access-date=3 August 2012|publisher=DNA India}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_jaswant-singh-to-give-stature-to-vice-president-poll-contest_1715752|title=Ansari may write to MPs of UPA and supporting parties|date=3 August 2012|access-date=3 August 2012|publisher=DNA India}}</ref>

Ansari then reelected as vice president.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/newdelhi/hamid-ansari-gets-second-term-as-vice-president/article1-909519.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120808223748/http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Hamid-Ansari-gets-second-term-as-vice-president/Article1-909519.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 August 2012|title=Hamid Ansari gets second term as vice president|date=August 7, 2012|access-date=22 August 2014|publisher=[[Hindustan Times]]}}</ref> In doing so, he became the first VP to be reelected since [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]] in [[1957 Indian vice-presidential election|1957]].

==Background==
{{Main|Vice President of India# Election, oath and term}}

Indian Vice President has a term of 5 years. Current VP, Hamid Ansari, took oath as Vice President on 11 August 2007, hence his term ended on 10 August 2012. The [[Election Commission of India]] undertook the election. [[T. K. Viswanathan]] and V. R. Ramesh were appointed as Returning Officer and the Assistant Returning Officer respectively.<ref name=pn>[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/Current/PN03072012.pdf PRESS NOTE Subject: Election to the Office of the Vice-President, 2012 (14th Vice-Presidential Election), ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA]</ref>

===Electoral College===
The electoral college consists of, all 245 [[Rajya Sabha]] members and all 545 [[Lok Sabha]] members, a total of 790 voters.<ref name=pn />

===Timeline===
According to, the Election Commission of India's press note on 3 July detailing the process of conduct and declaration of the result of the election, the program for the election was,<ref name=pn />
* Notification - 6 July.
* Deadline for nominations - 20 July.
* Scrutiny of nominations - 21 July.
* Deadline for withdrawal of nominations - 23 July
* Date and voting hours - 7 August from 10:00 to 17:00. Announcement of result at 18:00.

==Candidates==

Thirty-four candidates had filed their nomination papers for the election. Seven of them had filed nomination papers on the deadline day. Four nomination were rejected for failing to comply with the requirement of attaching a certified copy of the entry relating to the candidate's parliamentary constituency.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-07-20/news/32764396_1_sets-of-papers-one-nomination-papers-vice-presidential-poll|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305082528/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-07-20/news/32764396_1_sets-of-papers-one-nomination-papers-vice-presidential-poll|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 March 2016|title=Hamid Ansari, Jaswant Singh among 34 in fray for Vice Presidential poll|date=20 July 2012|access-date=4 August 2012}}</ref>

=== [[United Progressive Alliance]] ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
| style="background-color: {{party color|United Progressive Alliance}}" |
|-
![[United Progressive Alliance]]
|-
! For Vice-President
|-
|[[File:Hamid ansari.jpg|center|220x220px]]
|-
![[Vice president of India|Incumbent Vice president of India]] [[Mohammad Hamid Ansari]]
[[Indian National Congress]]
|}

=== [[National Democratic Alliance]] ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
| style="background-color: {{party color|National Democratic Alliance}}" |
|-
! [[National Democratic Alliance]]
|-
! For Vice-President
|-
| [[File:Jaswant Singh.jpg|center|220x220px]]
|-
! Former [[Minister of Finance (India)|Minister of Finance]] in Vajpayee govt. [[Jaswant Singh]]
[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|}

===Jaswant Singh===

[[Jaswant Singh]] had filed his nomination papers on 20 July in the presence of [[National Democratic Alliance (India)|National Democratic Alliance]] coalition leaders. Three sets of papers- one each by [[L. K. Advani]], [[Sumitra Mahajan]] and [[Yashwant Sinha]], supporting Singh's candidature were submitted to the returning officer Viswanathan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-07-20/news/32764396_1_sets-of-papers-one-nomination-papers-vice-presidential-poll|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305082528/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-07-20/news/32764396_1_sets-of-papers-one-nomination-papers-vice-presidential-poll|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 March 2016|title=Jaswant Singh files nomination for Vice Presidential poll|publisher=The Economic Times|date=20 July 2012|access-date=3 August 2012}}</ref> His candidature was announced by the NDA on 16 July.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/jaswant-singh-is-nda-nominee-for-vice-presidential-election/975067/0|title=Jaswant Singh is NDA nominee for Vice Presidential election|publisher=The Indian Express|date=16 July 2012|access-date=4 August 2012}}</ref> He would meet [[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]] leader [[Jayalalithaa]] and [[Naveen Patnaik]] of [[Biju Janata Dal]] on 6 August asking them to support his candidature.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-08-03/news/33020066_1_bjd-anti-congress-parties-bjp-leader|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151103085351/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-08-03/news/33020066_1_bjd-anti-congress-parties-bjp-leader|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 November 2015|title=Vice-Presidential poll: Jaswant Singh to seek J Jayalalithaa, BJD support|publisher=The Economic Times|date=3 August 2012|access-date=4 August 2012}}</ref>

===Hamid Ansari===

Ansari filed his nomination papers on 18 Jul United Progressive Alliance chairperson [[Sonia Gandhi]], Prime Minister, [[Manmohan Singh]] [[Samajwadi Party]] leader [[Mulayam Singh Yadav]], INC general secretary [[Rahul Gandhi]], [[Nationalist Congress Party]] leader [[Sharad Pawar]], [[Rashtriya Lok Dal|RLD]] leader [[Ajit Singh (politician, born 1939)|Ajit Singh]], [[Jammu & Kashmir National Conference|National Conference]] leader [[Farooq Abdullah]], Finance Minister [[P Chidambaram]], Defence Minister [[A. K. Antony]] and [[Rashtriya Janata Dal|RJD]] leader [[Lalu Prasad Yadav]] were among the political leaders who were present to support him at the time of his nomination.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-18/india/32729837_1_hamid-ansari-nomination-papers-vice-presidential-poll|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203010050/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-18/india/32729837_1_hamid-ansari-nomination-papers-vice-presidential-poll|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 February 2014|title=Vice-presidential poll: Hamid Ansari files nomination papers|date=18 July 2012|work=[[The Times of India]]|access-date=3 August 2012}}</ref> His candidature was announced by Sonia Gandhi at a UPA meeting held at Singh's official residence. Sonia Gandhi proposed his nomination by saying: "Mohd Hamid Ansari will complete shortly a term as Vice-President of India. He has presided over the Rajya Sabha with dignity and distinction. The UPA is honoured to nominate him as its candidate for a second term as Vice-President of India. "<ref name="toi"/> Sonia Gandhi, Mulayam Singh Yadav, [[Bahujan Samaj Party]] leader [[Satish Mishra]] and INC[[Member of Parliament|MP]] [[Motilal Vora]] then submitted one set of papers each to Viswanathan in support of Ansari's candidature.
<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/north/story/hamid-ansari-nomination-vice-president-poll-109984-2012-07-18|title=Hamid Ansari files nomination papers for Vice-Presidential post|date=18 July 2012|access-date=4 August 2012|publisher=The India Today}}</ref>

Though [[Mukul Roy]] of the [[All India Trinamool Congress]] had put before the names of [[Gopalkrishna Gandhi]] and [[Krishna Bose]], they declined to contest.<ref name="toi">{{cite web|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-14/india/32674057_1_vice-presidential-election-rashid-masood-upa-nominee|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130104015647/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-14/india/32674057_1_vice-presidential-election-rashid-masood-upa-nominee|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 January 2013|title=Hamid Ansari is UPA nominee for Vice-President's post; BJP to contest VP poll, NDA meet on July 16|date=14 July 2012|work=[[The Times of India]]|access-date=3 August 2012}}</ref>

==Result==
Ansari was elected as Vice President for a second term, and became the only person to do so after [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]], who was reelected in [[1957 Indian vice-presidential election|1957]].<ref name=toii>{{cite news |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Hamid-Ansari-re-elected-vice-president-in-one-sided-contest/articleshow/15396620.cms |title=Hamid Ansari re-elected vice-president in one-sided contest |newspaper=[[The Times of India]] |date=August 8, 2012 |access-date=May 25, 2016}}</ref>

{{election table|title=Result of the Indian vice-presidential election, 2012<ref name= toii /><ref>{{cite news |url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-08-07/news/33083622_1_hamid-ansari-bjp-mp-j-shanta-kakoli-dastidar |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160805000919/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-08-07/news/33083622_1_hamid-ansari-bjp-mp-j-shanta-kakoli-dastidar |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 August 2016 |title=Hamid Ansari wins second term as Vice President of India |newspaper=[[The Economic Times]] |date=August 7, 2012 |access-date=May 25, 2016}}</ref>|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}}
|align="left"|[[Mohammad Hamid Ansari]]||align="left"|[[Indian National Congress|INC]]||490||67.31
|-
| {{party color cell|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|align="left"|[[Jaswant Singh]]||align="left"|[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]||238||32.69
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#e9e9e9;"|
|-
! colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"| Total
! style="text-align:right;"|728
! style="text-align:right;"|100.00
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#e9e9e9;"|
|-
|-
|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Valid Votes||728||98.91
|-
|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Invalid Votes||8||1.09
|-
|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Turnout||736||93.16
|-
|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Abstentions||54||6.84
|-
|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Electors||790|| style="background:#e9e9e9;"|
|-
|}

==See also==
* [[2012 Indian presidential election]]

== References ==
{{reflist|3}}

==External links==
* [http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/presi_elec2012.aspx Official website] of the Vice-Presidential election 2012
* [http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/Current/PN03072012.pdf Press note] released by the Election Commission of India
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304001500/http://loksabha.nic.in/Vice_Presidential_Election_2012.pdf Information bullet] released by the Lok Sabha

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