General Knowledge - Indian Politics - Discussion

The value of votes cast by elected members of the state legislative assemblies and both houses of parliament were decided as per the provisions of article 55(2) of the Constitution of India. The details of number of voters and votes for this presidential election are given below.[1]

Presidential elections in India involve proportional representation from respective states. The number of votes assigned to a particular voter from a state assembly is decided as follows.


"Total Population of the state" divided by ("Total number of elected member" multiplied by 1000).

In other words, value of a MLA vote is no. of thousands of people represented by him. Thus, indirectly entire population cast vote.

Electoral college means members of L.S + R.S - (nominated) + legislative members of state who are directly elected of all states + legislative members of U.T's (Delhi+Pondicherry), but the vote value of M.P. is differ from M.L.A

Electoral College is the American concept for its President election. There are total 538 votes in the electoral college among which 270 votes are necessary for the Presidential victory.

The answer here is incorrect as the main criteria for a person to be recommended as a president is that he should be RECOMMENDED BY 50 PERSONS/ELECTORS AND SECONDED BY ANOTHER 50.

The nomination of a candidate for Presidential elections must be subscribed by "50 electors as proposers and 50 electors as seconders".
(Indian Polity- Laxmikanth)

@Khushboo.

Both the houses of parliament collectively known as electoral college.

In other words:

Electoral College = Lok Sabha + Rajya Sabha

Who will be the proposers and seconders for recommending a person to be nominated for the candidature of the president, I mean what will be their status?

For nominating a person for president election he must be proposed by 50 members of electoral college and supported by another 50 members.

The nomination of a candidate for Presidential elections must be subscribed by "50 electors as proposers and 50 electors as seconders".

Electoral College is an Ireland concept.

Electoral College means Elected members of LOK SABHA AND RAJYA SABHA AND MLAs.