The election of the President of India is an indirect election in which electoral college consisting of the elected members of both houses of parliament (M.P.s), the elected members of the State Legislative Assemblies (Vidhan Sabha) of all States and the elected members of the legislative assemblies (MLAs) of union territories with legislatures, i.e., National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, and Puducherry. The election process of the president is a more extensive process than of the prime minister who is also elected indirectly (not elected by people directly) by the Lok Sabha members only. Whereas President being the constitutional head with duties to protect, defend and preserve the constitution and rule of law in a constitutional democracy with constitutional supremacy, is elected in an extensive manner by the members of Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and state legislative assemblies in a secret ballot procedure.^[1][2][3]

Electoral college results

Year	Party		Alliance	Presidential candidate		Electoral votes		States Carried	Result
				Portrait	Name	Votes	%
1950		Indian National Congress	–		Rajendra Prasad	No election Held		20	Won
1952		Indian National Congress	–		Rajendra Prasad	507,400	83.81%	20	Won
		Independent	–		K. T. Shah	92,827	15.33%	0	Lost
1957		Indian National Congress	–		Rajendra Prasad	459,698	98.99%	20	Won
		Independent	–		Chowdhry Hari Ram	2,672	0.43%	0	Lost
1962		Independent	–		Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	553,067	98.2%	25	Won
		Independent	–		Chowdhry Hari Ram	6,341	1.1%	0	Lost
1967		Independent	–		Zakir Husain	471,244	56.2%	21	Won
		Independent	–		Koka Subba Rao	363,971	43.4%	5	Lost
1969		Independent	–		V. V. Giri	420,077	50.9%	21	Won
		Independent	–		Neelam Sanjiva Reddy	405,427	49.1%	7	Lost
1974		Indian National Congress	–		Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed	754,113	79.9%	26	Won
		Revolutionary Socialist Party	–		Tridib Chaudhuri	189,196	20.1%	2	Lost
1977		Janata Party	–		Neelam Sanjiva Reddy	Unopposed		28	Won
1982		Indian National Congress	–		Zail Singh	754,113	72.7%	26	Won
		Independent	–		Hans Raj Khanna	282,685	27.3%	2	Lost
1987		Indian National Congress	–		Ramaswamy Venkataraman	740,148	72.3%	27	Won
		Independent	–		V. R. Krishna Iyer	281,550	27.5%	4	Lost
1992		Indian National Congress	–		Shankar Dayal Sharma	675,864	65.9%	25	Won
		Independent	–		George Gilbert Swell	346,485	33.8%	6	Lost
1997		Indian National Congress	–		K. R. Narayanan	956,290	95.0%	31	Won
		Independent	–		T. N. Seshan	50,631	5.0%	0	Lost
2002		Independent	NDA		A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	922,884	89.6%	28	Won
		Communist Party of India	LF		Lakshmi Sahgal	107,366	10.4%	2	Lost
2007		Indian National Congress	UPA		Pratibha Patil	638,116	65.8%	23	Won
		Bharatiya Janata Party	NDA		Bhairon Singh Shekhawat	331,306	34.2%	7	Lost
2012		Indian National Congress	UPA		Pranab Mukherjee	713,763	69.3%	22	Won
		National People's Party	NDA		P. A. Sangma	315,987	30.7%	8	Lost
2017		Bharatiya Janata Party	NDA		Ram Nath Kovind	702,044	65.65%	21	Won
		Indian National Congress	UPA		Meira Kumar	367,314	34.35%	10	Lost
2022		Bharatiya Janata Party	NDA		Droupadi Murmu	676,803	64.03%	22	Won
		All India Trinamool Congress	UO		Yashwant Sinha	380,177	35.97%	8	Lost