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So far 16 elections have been held for the post of Vice President of India and only four times the candidates could win unopposed, while two elections were seen to be a multicultural contest. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was the Vice President twice from 1952 to 1962 and he won unopposed in the elections both times.
At the same time, in the 1952 election, Nomination was filed by Janab Sheikh Khadir Hussain of Andhra Pradesh, but his nomination papers were rejected, which led to Radhakrishnan the only candidate. In 1979, famous jurist and former Chief Justice of India Mohammad Hidayatullah was elected unopposed Vice President. Hidayatullah has the distinction of working as Chief Justice, Vice President and Acting President.
Hidayatullah became acting President for a month
As the Chief Justice, Hidayatullah worked as a acting President for a month in 1969, when V.V. Giri resigned from the post of acting President and Vice President to contest the presidential election.
After the death of the then President Zakir Hussain on 3 May 1969, Giri took over as the acting President. In 1987, the then Governor of Maharashtra Shankar Dayal Sharma won the Vice President unopposed. 27 people had filed nomination papers for the ninth Vice Presidential election, but the Election Officer found only Sharma’s application valid.
This year, there was a triangular contest in the Vice Presidential election
After that in 1992, in the next Vice Presidential election, K.R. Narayanan got 700 votes out of 701 votes. His opponent Kaka Joginder Singh, also known as ‘Earth Pakan’, got only one vote. A total of 711 votes were cast in the election, out of which 10 were found illegal.
The triangular contest was seen in the Vice Presidential election only in 2007, when UPA candidate M. Hamid Ansari was contesting with NDA candidate Najma Heptullah and third front candidate Rashid Masood. Out of a total of 790 voters in that election, 762 voted, out of which 10 were found illegal. Out of the valid 752 votes, Ansari got 455 votes, Heptulla got 222 and Masood got 75 votes.
VV Giri resigned to contest the presidential election
In 1962, Zakir Hussain won the Vice President against NC Samant Singh by 554 votes. Out of the 745 -member electorate, 596 members cast their votes, out of which 14 were found illegal. In 1967, VV Giri defeated Professor Habib and won the Vice Presidential election.
In 1969, GS Pathak defeated five candidates and became Vice President. That year, elections were held for Giri’s resignation from the post of Vice President to contest the presidential election that year. In 1974, B.K. D. Jatty N. The Vice President won the election by defeating E. Horo. Jatty got 521, while Horo got 141 votes.
BJP leader Bhairon Singh Shekhawat also took office
In the year 1984, R.K. Venkataraman won the Vice Presidential election. He got 508 votes out of 715 valid votes. He defeated Bapu Chandrasen Kamble. In 1987, Venkataraman left the post to contest the presidential election and Shankar Dayal Sharma was elected Vice President in that year. In 1997, Krishnakant defeated Surjeet Singh in the Vice Presidential election. Kant got 441 votes, while Singh got 273 votes.
BJP leader Bhairon Singh Shekhawat defeated Congress candidate Sushil Kumar Shinde in the 2002 Vice Presidential election. Shekhawat got 454 votes out of 759 valid votes, while Shinde got 305 votes. In 2007, M Hamid Ansari won the Vice Presidential election and in 2012 the then UPA government fielded him again.
Jagdeep Dhankhar became Vice President after defeating Congress candidate
In 2012, Ansari defeated BJP candidate Jaswant Singh by 490 votes. In 2017, BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu defeated Gopalakrishna Gandhi of Congress -led UPA. Naidu got 516 votes out of 760 valid votes, while Gandhi got 244 votes. In the year 2022, BJP -led NDA candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar defeated Congress -led UPA candidate Margaret Alva. Dhankhar got 528 votes, while Alva got 182 votes.
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