1952 Indian presidential election

1952 Indian presidential election

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Nominee Rajendra Prasad K. T. Shah Party INC Independent Home state Bihar Bombay Electoral vote 507,400 92,827 Percentage 83.81% 15.33%

President before election Rajendra Prasad (Interim) INC Elected President Rajendra Prasad INC

The Election Commission of India held the first presidential elections of India on 2 May 1952. Dr. Rajendra Prasad won his first election with 507,400 votes (83.81%) over his nearest rival K. T. Shah who got 92,827 votes (15.3%).

Schedule

The election schedule was announced by the Election Commission of India on 4 April 1952. ^[1]

S.No.	Poll Event	Date
1.	Last Date for filing nomination	12 April 1952
2.	Date for Scrutiny of nomination	14 April 1952
3.	Last Date for Withdrawal of nomination	17 April 1952
4.	Date of Poll	2 May 1952
5.	Date of Counting	6 May 1952

Results

Source: Web archive of Election Commission of India website ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Candidate	Electoral Values
Rajendra Prasad	507,400
K. T. Shah	92,827
Lakshman Ganesh Thatte	2,672
Chaudhary Hari Ram	1,954
Krishna Kumar Chatterjee	533
Total	605,386

See also

• 1952 Indian vice presidential election

References

1. "Background material related to Election to the office of President of India 2017". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 30 January 2022.
2. "Election Commission of India" (PDF). Eci.gov.in. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 November 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
3. "Presidential Candidates (from 1952 to 2007)". Archived from the original on 20 December 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2009.
4. "First real contest for office of President witnessed in 1967". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 22 May 2009.