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 1957 →

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]

Candidate	Electoral Values
Rajendra Prasad	507,400
K. T. Shah	92,827
Thatte Lakshman Ganesh	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. "Presidential canidates". Archived from the original on 2017-12-20. Retrieved 2009-05-22.
3. "Yahoo!". Aol.in. Retrieved 16 June 2019.