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%).

Results
Source: Web archive of Election Commission of India website
CandidateElectoral ValuesRajendra Prasad507,400K. T. Shah92,827Thatte Lakshman Ganesh2,672Chowdhry Hari Ram1,954Krishna Kumar Chatterjee533Total605,386

References

Category:Presidential elections in India
Category:1950s in India
Category:1950s elections