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India Updates

Elections for the highest office

in the largest democracy

E lection to the office of President of India, Presidential Elections Rules, 1974, the Election
Under Rule 40 of the Presidential and Vice-
which is the highest elective office in the
Republic of India, concluded successfully in
free, fair and transparent manner at the Parliament Commission of India is required to maintain a
list of members of the Electoral College. The list
House and in each of the 30 places of poll in contains the names of elected members of the
State Legislative Assemblies including Legislative Rajya Sabha, Lok Sabha and the elected members
Assembly of NCT of Delhi and UT of Puducherry on of the Legislative Assemblies of States, NCT of Delhi
July 18, 2022. and UT of Puducherry, in that order. Two members
were not eligible to vote in the election, owing to
disqualification under Section 8 of R.P. Act, 1951
subsequent to judgement of a competent Court.
Further, there are 05 vacancies in Rajya Sabha
and 06 vacancies in State Legislative Assemblies.
Therefore, there were a total of 4796 electors in the
list of Electoral College for this Presidential Election
to participate in the election.
The Constitution (Eighty-fourth) Amendment
Act, 2001 provides that until the relevant population
figures for the first census to be taken after the
year 2026 have been published, the population of
the States for the purposes of calculation of value
of votes for the Presidential Election shall mean the
The President of India is elected indirectly by the population as ascertained at the 1971-census.
single-transferable voting system, by an electoral Room No. 63 in the Parliament House in New
college consisting of elected members of both Delhi and another 30 polling stations in all State
the houses of the parliament and the legislative Legislative Assembly Secretariats (including National
assemblies of the states Capital Territory of
and the UTs. Delhi and the Union
The Election to the Election to the President of India is fool proof. Territory of Puducherry)
office of President of The Ballot Boxes fly on a separate air ticket were fixed as places of
Indian Republic is one in the name of Mr. Ballot, escorted by high the poll. The Members
of the most important security of armed personnel. of Parliament voted
elections, which the in New Delhi and the
Election Commission of members of the State
India conducts vide the mandate of Article 324 of Legislative Assemblies, including the members of the
the Constitution of India. There were two contesting Legislative Assemblies of NCT of Delhi and Union
candidates namely, Droupadi Murmu and Yashwant Territory of Puducherry, voted at the place fixed in
Sinha for the 16th Presidential election. Polling was each Legislative Assembly.
held between 10am to 5 pm at 31 locations on July Facilities were also provided by the Commission
18, 2022.

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