Presidential Elections: Ram Nath Kovind garners over 65 per cent votes. Here are all the details
India’s 14th Presidential election, 2017 |
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Contestants |
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| Name : Ram Nath Kovin Meira Kumar
Party : BJP INC Alliance : NDA UPA Home state : Uttar Pradesh Bihar Electoral vote : 702,044 367,314 Percentage : 65.65% 34.35% |
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| Winner | 
Ram Nath Kovind |
| Taking office | 25 July 2017 |
| About Him | – Born on :- 1 October 1945
– Advocate with low profile has had a 23- year old political carrer. |
| Early life | – Bachelors in Commerce, law from kanpur University.
– 1971 Enrolled as a advocate with Bar Council of Delhi. – 1975 Cracked the civils but didn’t join as he was selected for allied C service. – 1977-1979 Center’s advocate in Delhi HC; SC’advocate on record in 1978. – 1980 to 1993 Center’s Standing counsel in Supreme Court. |
| Political Life | – Turned to RSS late 20s, early 30s while in Delhi; active BJP member – 1991 Soon after joining saffron outfit, lost Lok Sabha polls from Ghathampur (SC) seat that included home town Kanpur rural. Ghatampur is no longer a constituency – 1994-2000 & 2000-2006 Rajyasabha Member, Then UP CM Kalyan Singh made him Rajya Sabha MP in 1994. Used MP funds to build school infra in Up, then Uttarakhand – 1999-2002 BJP national spokesperson: headed party’s SC wing – 2007 Lost assembly elections from Bhoginipur (SC) – 2015 Governer of Bihar |
| How the States Voted | States Ram Nath Kovind Meira Kumar Andhra Pradesh 98% 0% Arunachal Pradesh 93% 5% Assam 72% 28% Bihar 54% 45% Chhattisgarh 58% 39% Delhi 9% 77% Goa 68% 23% Gujarat 73% 27% Haryana 81% 18% Himachal Pradesh 15% 54% Jammu & Kashmir 64% 35% Jharkhand 63% 32% Karnataka 25% 73% Kerala 0.7% 99% Madhya Pradesh 74% 25% Maharashtra 72% 27% Manipur 62% 32% Meghalaya 13% 68% Mizoram 15% 78% Nagaland 93% 2% Odisha 86% 12% Punjab 15% 81% Rajasthan 58% 39% Sikkim 88% 3% Tamil Nadu 57% 42% Telangana 82% 17% Tripura 12% 88% Uttarakhand 84% 16% Uttar Pradesh 83% 16% West Bengal 4% 93% |
| Vote Share | 65% (President elect Kovind defeated the Opposition’s nominee former LOk Sabha speaker Meira Kumar by garnering over 65% of votes in the electoral college ) |
| Ram Nath Kovind | 2,930 votes (MP & MLAs); Value 7,02,044 (65.65%) |
| Meira Kumar | 1,844 Votes; Value 3,67,314 (34.35%) |
| Total electoral college | 4,896 voters (4,120 MLAs & 776 elected MPs) 4,851-4,083 MLAs & 768 MPs voted |
| 768 MPs | Kovind (522) & Kumar (225) |
| Invalid MP Votes | 21 |
| Win Margin | 31.3% |
| Indian former President With win margin | 10.5% V V Giri 1969 Defeted N Sanjeeva Reddy
12.8 Zakir Hussain 1967 Defeted Kota Subbarao 31.3% Ramnath Kovind 2017 Defeted Meira Kumar 31.6 Pratibha Patil 2007 Defeted Bhairon sing Shekhawwat 32.1 S Dayal Sharma 1992 Defeted G G Swell 38.6 Pranab Mukherjee 2012 Defeted Purno Agitok Sangma 44.8 R Venkataraman 1987 Defeted V Krishna Lyer 45.5 Gyani Zali Singh 1982 Defeted H R Khanna 60.40 FA Ahmed 1974 Defeted Tridib Chaudhuri 68.5 Rajendra Prasad 1952 Defeted K T Shah 79.2 APJ Abdul Kalam 2002 Defeted Lakshmi Saghal 89.9 KR Narayanan 1997 Defeted T N Seshan 97.1 S Radhakrishnan 1962 Defeted Chowdhry 98.6 Rajendra Prashad 1957 Defeted Nagendra Narayan Das |
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