Narayanan now holds the record in a Presidential poll
The following chart shows the votes polled by winners and runners up in Presidential elections:
Year | Winners | Votes | % | | Runner-up |
Votes | % |
1952 | Dr Rajendra Prasad | 5,07,400 | 83.8 | | K T Shah | 9,2827 | 15.3 |
1957 | Dr Rajendra Prasad | 4,59,698 | 99.3 | | N N Dass | 2,000 | 0.3 |
1962 | Dr S
Radhakrishnan | 5,83,067 | 98.3 | | C H Ram | 6,341 | 1.1 |
1967 | Dr Zakir Hussain | 4,71,244 | 56.2 | | K Subba Rao | 363,971 | 43.4 |
1969 | V V Giri | 4,20,077 | 50.2 | | Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy | 405,427 | 48.5 |
1974 | Fakruddin Ali Ahmed | 7,65,587 | 80.2 | | Tridip Chaudhury | 189,186 | 19.8 |
1977 | Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy | Elected unopposed |
1982 | Giani Zail Singh | 7,54,113 | 72.7 | | H R Khanna | 282,685 | 27.3 |
1987 | R Venkataraman | 7,40,148 | 72.3 | | V R Krishna Iyer | 281,550 | 27.5 |
1992 | Shankar Dayal Sharma | 6,75,864 | 64.4 | | G G Swell | 346,485 | 33.8 |
1992 | K R Narayanan | 956,290 | 94.97 | | T N Seshan | 50,631 | 5.03 |
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