1967 Indian presidential election

The Election Commission of India held the indirect fourth presidential elections of India on 6 May 1967. Dr. Zakir Husain, with 471,244 votes, won the presidency over his rival Koka Subba Rao, who garnered 363,971 votes.

1967 Indian presidential election

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Nominee Zakir Husain Koka Subba Rao Party Independent Independent Home state Uttar Pradesh Andhra Pradesh Electoral vote 471,244 363,971 Percentage 56.22% 43.43%

President before election Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Independent Elected President Zakir Husain Independent

Schedule

The election schedule was announced by the Election Commission of India on 3 April 1967.^[1]

S.No.	Poll Event	Date
1.	Last Date for filing nomination	13 April 1967
2.	Date for Scrutiny of nomination	15 April 1967
3.	Last Date for Withdrawal of nomination	18 April 1967
4.	Date of Poll	6 May 1967
5.	Date of Counting	9 May 1967

Results

Source: Web archive of Election Commission of India website^[2][3][4][5]

Candidate	Electoral Values
Zakir Husain	471,244
Koka Subba Rao	363,971
Khubi Ram	1,369
Yamuna Prasad Trisulia	232
Shriniwas Gopal Bhamburkar	232
Brahma Deo	232
Krishna Kumar Chatterjee	125
Kumar Kamla Singh	125
Chandradatt Senani	—
U. P. Chugani	—
M. C. Davar	—
Chowdhry Hari Ram	—
Man Singh Ahluwalia	122
Seetharamaiah Ramaswamy Sharma Hoysala	—
Swami Satyabhakta	—
Total	838,170

See also

• 1967 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). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016.
3. "PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES (FROM 1952 TO 2007)". www.indiaonestop.com. Archived from the original on 16 October 2008.
4. "First real contest for office of President witnessed in 1967". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 22 May 2009.
5. "Past and present Presidential Results". www.aol.in. AOL News. 2007.^{[permanent dead link‍]}