1952 Indian presidential election

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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%).

Results[edit]

Source: Web archive of Election Commission of India website^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

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

References[edit]

↑ "Election Commission of India" (PDF). Eci.gov.in. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 November 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-12-20. Retrieved 2009-05-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2009-05-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
↑ "Yahoo!". Aol.in. Retrieved 16 June 2019.

[1] "Election Commission of India" (PDF). Eci.gov.in. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 November 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2019.

[2] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-12-20. Retrieved 2009-05-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[3] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2009-05-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[4] "Yahoo!". Aol.in. Retrieved 16 June 2019.

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