FOURTH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, 1967
The term of Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan as the President of India expired on 12-05-1967. An election was held to the office of President before that time.
RETURNING OFFICER;
The Secretary to the Rajya Sabha
ASSTT. RETURNING OFFICERS
The Deputy Secretary, Rajya Sabha Secretariat and Secretaries of various State Legislative Assemblies. It was decided to have poll at two places in Jammu & Kashmir State, that is at Jammu and Srinagar. Therefore, the Under Secretary of the Assembly Secretariat was also appointed as ARO in Jammu & Kashmir apart from the Secretary of the Assembly Secretariat.
ELECTION PROGRAMME
1. Notified on 03.04.1967
2. Last date for making nomination 13.04.1967
3. Scrutiny of Nominations on 15.04.1967
4. Last date for withdrawal 18.04.1967
5. Date of Poll 06.05.1967 (10 A.M. to 4.P.M.)
6. Counting votes 09.05.1967
ELECTORAL COLLEGE
The Electoral College consisted of elected members of Lok Sabha (520), Rajya Sabha (228) and 17 State Legislative Assemblies (3383). Thus the total electors were 4,131.
NO. OF VOTES FOR EACH MEMBER
Each Member of Parliament had 576 votes and the number of votes for each Member of the State Legislative Assemblies differed from State to State on the basis of the population. The lowest value of votes was for the MLAs of Nagaland State (08) and the highest value of votes was for the MLAs of Uttar Pradesh (174). The value of votes was calculated on the basis of 1961 census.
CANDIDATES
The contesting candidates and the votes secured by them were as follows:
| Sl. No | CANDIDATE | VOTES POLLED |
| 1. | Dr. Zakir Hussain | 4,71,244 |
| 2. | Shri Kota Subbarao | 3,63,971 |
| 3. | Shri Khubi Ram | 1,369 |
| 4. | Shri Yamuna Prasad Trisulia | 750 |
| 5. | Shri Bhamburkar Shriniwas Gopal | 232 |
| 6. | Shri Brahma Deo | 232 |
| 7. | Shri Krishna Kumar Chatterjee | 125 |
| 8. | Shri Kumar Kamla Singh | 125 |
| 9. | Shri Chandradutt Senani | 0 |
| 10. | Shri U.P. Chugani | 0 |
| 11. | Dr. M.C. Davar | 0 |
| 12. | Ch. Hari Ram | 0 |
| 13. | Dr. Man Singh | 0 |
| 14. | Smt. Manohara Holkar | |
| 15. | Shri Motilal Bhikabhai Patel | 0 |
| 16. | Sh. Seetharamaiah Ramaswamy Sharma Hoysala | 0 |
| 17. | Shri Satyabhakt | 0 |
| 18. | TOTAL | 8,38,048 |
Dr. Zakir Hussain was declared as elected and the notification announcing this was published on 09-09-1967. He assumed the office of the President of India on 13-05-1967.
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