1952 Indian presidential election

The Election Commission of India held the first presidential elections of India on May 2, 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%).

1952 Indian presidential election
May 2, 1952
 
Nominee Rajendra Prasad K. T. Shah
Party Independent Independent
Home state Bihar Bombay
Electoral vote 507,400 92,827
Elected President

Rajendra Prasad
Independent

Results

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
  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.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2009-05-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Yahoo!". Aol.in. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
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