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The election of the [[President of India]] is an [[indirect election]] in which an [[Electoral College (India)|electoral college]] consisting of the elected [[Members of Parliament (India)|members]] of both houses of [[Parliament of India|parliament]] (M.P.s), the elected [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|members of the state legislative assemblies]] ([[Vidhan Sabha]]s) of all states and the elected members of the legislative assemblies (MLAs) of union territories with legislatures, i.e., [[Delhi|National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi]], [[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu and Kashmir]], and [[Puducherry (union territory)|Puducherry]] elect the president. The election process of the president is a more extensive process than of the [[Prime Minister of India|prime minister]] who is also elected indirectly (not elected by people directly) by the [[Lok Sabha]] members only. Whereas President being the constitutional head with duties to protect, defend and preserve the constitution and [[rule of law]] in a [[constitutional democracy]] with [[Ouster clause|constitutional supremacy]], is elected in an extensive manner by the members of Lok Sabha, [[Rajya Sabha]] and [[Vidhan Sabha|state legislative assemblies]] in a secret ballot procedure.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.livelaw.in/know-the-law/explainer-how-the-president-of-india-is-elected-202038 | title=Explainer : How the President of India is Elected? | date=21 June 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-how-the-president-is-elected-7961048/ | title=Explained: How the President of India is elected | date=23 June 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/the-process-of-electing-indias-president/article65314652.ece | title=How is the president of India elected? | newspaper=The Hindu | date=13 April 2022 | last1=Munjal | first1=Diksha }}</ref>

==Electoral college results==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"
! rowspan=2|Year
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Party
! rowspan="2" |Alliance
! colspan="2" |Presidential candidate
! colspan="2" data-sort-type="number"|Electoral votes
!States Carried
! rowspan=2|Result
|-
! Portrait
! Name
! Votes
! %
!
|-
![[1950 Indian presidential election|1950]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
| {{dash}}
|[[File:Rajendra Prasad (Indian President), signed image for Walter Nash (NZ Prime Minister), 1958 (16017609534).jpg|100px]]
|'''[[Rajendra Prasad]]'''
| colspan="2" | '''Unopposed'''
|'''20'''
|{{won}}
|-
!rowspan="2" |[[1952 Indian presidential election|1952]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
| {{dash}}
|[[File:Rajendra Prasad (Indian President), signed image for Walter Nash (NZ Prime Minister), 1958 (16017609534).jpg|100px]]
|'''[[Rajendra Prasad]]'''
|'''507,400'''
|'''83.81%'''
|'''20'''
|{{won}}
|-
| {{Party name with color|Independent politician}}
| {{dash}}
|[[File:K.T. Shah.jpg|100px]]
|[[K. T. Shah]]
|92,827
|15.33%
|0
|{{lost}}
|-
!rowspan="2" |[[1957 Indian presidential election|1957]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
| {{dash}}
|[[File:Rajendra Prasad (Indian President), signed image for Walter Nash (NZ Prime Minister), 1958 (16017609534).jpg|100px]]
|'''[[Rajendra Prasad]]'''
|'''459,698'''
|'''98.99%'''
|'''20'''
|{{won}}
|-
| {{Party name with color|Independent politician}}
| {{dash}}
|
|[[Chaudhary Hari Ram]]
|2,672
|0.43%
|0
|{{lost}}
|-
!rowspan="2" |[[1962 Indian presidential election|1962]]
| {{Party name with color|Independent politician}}
| {{dash}}
|[[File:Photograph of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan presented to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in 1962.jpg|100px]]
|'''[[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]]'''
|'''553,067'''
|'''98.2%'''
|'''25'''
|{{won}}
|-
| {{Party name with color|Independent politician}}
| {{dash}}
|
|[[Chaudhary Hari Ram]]
|6,341
|1.1%
|0
|{{lost}}
|-
!rowspan="2" |[[1967 Indian presidential election|1967]]
| {{Party name with color|Independent politician}}
| {{dash}}
|[[File:President Zakir Husain 1998 stamp of India (cropped).jpg|100px]]
|'''[[Zakir Husain (politician)|Zakir Husain]]'''
|'''471,244'''
|'''56.2%'''
|'''21'''
|{{won}}
|-
| {{Party name with color|Independent politician}}
| {{dash}}
|[[File:Justice K. Subba Rao.jpg|100px]]
|[[Koka Subba Rao]]
|363,971
|43.4%
|5
|{{lost}}
|-
!rowspan="2" |[[1969 Indian presidential election|1969]]
| {{Party name with color|Independent politician}}
| {{dash}}
|[[File:VV Giri 1974 stamp of India (cropped).jpg|100px]]
|'''[[V. V. Giri]]'''
|'''420,077'''
|'''50.9%'''
|'''21'''
|{{won}}
|-
| {{Party name with color|Independent politician}}
| {{dash}}
|[[File:Neelam Sanjiva Reddy.jpg|100px]]
|[[Neelam Sanjiva Reddy]]
|405,427
|49.1%
|7
|{{lost}}
|-
!rowspan="2" |[[1974 Indian presidential election|1974]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
| {{dash}}
|[[File:Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed 1977 stamp of India (cropped).jpg|100px]]
|'''[[Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed]]'''
|'''754,113'''
|'''79.9%'''
|'''26'''
|{{won}}
|-
| {{Full party name with color|Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)}}
| {{dash}}
|
|[[Tridib Chaudhuri]]
|189,196
|20.1%
|2
|{{lost}}
|-
![[1977 Indian presidential election|1977]]
| {{Full party name with color|Janata Party}}
| {{dash}}
|[[File:Neelam Sanjiva Reddy.jpg|100px]]
|'''[[Neelam Sanjiva Reddy]]'''
| colspan="2" | '''Unopposed'''
|'''28'''
|{{won}}
|-
!rowspan="2" |[[1982 Indian presidential election|1982]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
| {{dash}}
|[[File:Giani Zail Singh 1995 stamp of India (cropped).png|100px]]
|'''[[Zail Singh]]'''
|'''754,113'''
|'''72.7%'''
|'''26'''
|{{won}}
|-
| {{Party name with color|Independent politician}}
| {{dash}}
|
|[[Hans Raj Khanna]]
|282,685
|27.3%
|2
|{{lost}}
|-
!rowspan="2" |[[1987 Indian presidential election|1987]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
| {{dash}}
|[[File:R Venkataraman (cropped).jpg|100px]]
|'''[[Ramaswamy Venkataraman]]'''
|'''740,148'''
|'''72.3%'''
|'''27'''
|{{won}}
|-
| {{Party name with color|Independent politician}}
| {{dash}}
|[[File:V.R.Krishna Iyer.jpg|100px]]
|[[V. R. Krishna Iyer]]
|281,550
|27.5%
|4
|{{lost}}
|-
!rowspan="2" |[[1992 Indian presidential election|1992]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
| {{dash}}
|[[File:Shankar Dayal Sharma 36.jpg|100px]]
|'''[[Shankar Dayal Sharma]]'''
|'''675,864'''
|'''65.9%'''
|'''25'''
|{{won}}
|-
| {{Party name with color|Independent politician}}
| {{dash}}
|
|[[George Gilbert Swell]]
|346,485
|33.8%
|6
|{{lost}}
|-
!rowspan="2" |[[1997 Indian presidential election|1997]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
| {{dash}}
|[[File:President Clinton with Indian president K. R. Narayanan (cropped).jpg|100px]]
|'''[[K. R. Narayanan]]'''
|'''956,290'''
|'''95.0%'''
|'''31'''
|{{won}}
|-
| {{Party name with color|Independent politician}}
| {{dash}}
|[[File:T.N. Seshan in 1994 (cropped).jpg|100px]]
|[[T. N. Seshan]]
|50,631
|5.0%
|0
|{{lost}}
|-
!rowspan="2" |[[2002 Indian presidential election|2002]]
| {{Party name with color|Independent politician}}
|[[National Democratic Alliance|NDA]]
|[[File:A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.jpg|100px]]
|'''[[A. P. J. Abdul Kalam]]'''
|'''922,884'''
|'''89.6%'''
|'''28'''
|{{won}}
|-
| {{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)|dab=yes}}
|[[Left Front (West Bengal)|LF]]
|[[File:With Namvar Sinha and Capt Laxshmi of INA (cropped).jpg|100px]]
|[[Lakshmi Sahgal]]
|107,366
|10.4%
|2
|{{lost}}
|-
!rowspan="2" |[[2007 Indian presidential election|2007]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|[[United Progressive Alliance|UPA]]
|[[File:The President of India, Smt. Pratibha Patil.jpg|100px]]
|'''[[Pratibha Patil]]'''
|'''638,116'''
|'''65.8%'''
|'''23'''
|{{won}}
|-
| {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|[[National Democratic Alliance|NDA]]
|[[File:BS Shekhawat.jpg|100px]]
|[[Bhairon Singh Shekhawat]]
|331,306
|34.2%
|7
|{{lost}}
|-
!rowspan="2" |[[2012 Indian presidential election|2012]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|[[United Progressive Alliance|UPA]]
|[[File:Pranab Mukherjee Portrait.jpg|100px]]
|'''[[Pranab Mukherjee]]'''
|'''713,763'''
|'''69.3%'''
|'''22'''
|{{won}}
|-
| {{Full party name with color|National People's Party (India)}}
|[[National Democratic Alliance|NDA]]
|[[File:The former Lok Sabha Speaker Shri P.A. Sangma met the Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee in New Delhi on January 18, 2004 (cropped).png|100px]]
|[[P. A. Sangma]]
|315,987
|30.7%
|8
|{{lost}}
|-
!rowspan="2" |[[2017 Indian presidential election|2017]]
| {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|[[National Democratic Alliance|NDA]]
|[[File:Ram Nath Kovind official portrait.jpg|100px]]
|'''[[Ram Nath Kovind]]'''
|'''702,044'''
|'''65.65%'''
|'''21'''
|{{won}}
|-
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|[[United Progressive Alliance|UPA]]
|[[File:The Speaker, Lok Sabha, Smt. Meira Kumar in 2010.jpg|100px]]
|[[Meira Kumar]]
|367,314
|34.35%
|10
|{{lost}}
|-
!rowspan="2" |[[2022 Indian presidential election|2022]]
| {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|[[National Democratic Alliance|NDA]]
|[[File:President of India Droupadi Murmu official portrait (cropped).jpg|100px]]
|'''[[Droupadi Murmu]]'''
| '''676,803'''
|'''64.03%'''
|'''22'''
|{{won}}
|-
| {{Full party name with color|Trinamool Congress}}
|[[United Opposition (India)|UO]]
|[[File:Yashwant Sinha IMF.jpg|100px]]
|[[Yashwant Sinha]]
|380,177
|35.97%
|8
|{{lost}}
|}

==See also==
* [[Elections in India]]
* [[Electoral College (India)|Electoral College]]
* [[List of Indian vice presidential elections]]
* [[List of Rajya Sabha elections]]
* [[List of Indian general elections]]
* [[List of Indian state legislative assembly elections]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://eci.gov.in/presidential-election/index/ Presidential Elections]
* [https://presidentofindia.nic.in/ President of India]
* [https://presidentofindia.nic.in/former-presidents.htm Former Presidents of India]

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ThomasEl at 07:18, 7 May 2026