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Narayanan now holds the record in a Presidential poll

The following chart shows the votes polled by winners and runners up in Presidential elections:

YearWinnersVotes%Runner-up Votes%
1952Dr Rajendra Prasad5,07,40083.8K T Shah9,282715.3
1957Dr Rajendra Prasad4,59,69899.3N N Dass2,0000.3
1962Dr S Radhakrishnan5,83,06798.3C H Ram6,3411.1
1967Dr Zakir Hussain4,71,24456.2K Subba Rao363,971 43.4
1969V V Giri4,20,07750.2Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy405,42748.5
1974Fakruddin Ali Ahmed7,65,58780.2Tridip Chaudhury189,18619.8
1977Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy
Elected unopposed
1982Giani Zail Singh7,54,11372.7H R Khanna282,68527.3
1987R Venkataraman7,40,14872.3V R Krishna Iyer281,55027.5
1992Shankar Dayal Sharma6,75,86464.4G G Swell346,48533.8
1992K R Narayanan956,29094.97T N Seshan50,6315.03

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