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1962 Indian presidential election

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Nominee Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Chowdhry Hari Ram
Party Independent (India) Independent (India)
Home state Andhra Pradesh Punjab
Electoral vote 553,067 6,341
Percentage 98.2% 1.1%

President before election

Rajendra Prasad
Independent

Elected President

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Independent

The Election Commission of India held indirect 3rd presidential elections of India on 7 May 1962. Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan with 553,067 votes won the presidency over his rivals Chowdhry Hari Ram who got 6,341 votes and Yamuna Prasad Trisulia who got 3,537 votes.

Results[edit | edit source]

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

Candidate Electoral Values
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 553,067
Chowdhry Hari Ram 6,341
Yamuna Prasad Trisulia 3,537
Total 562,945

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ "Election Commission of India" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 November 2017.[permanent dead link]
  2. ↑ "PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES (FROM 1952 TO 2007)". www.indiaonestop.com. Archived from the original on 16 October 2008.
  3. ↑ "First real contest for office of President witnessed in 1967". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 22 May 2009.
  4. ↑ "Past and present Presidential Results". www.aol.in. AOL News. 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)[permanent dead link]

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