The list of past Presidents

The President of India is the first citizen of the country and the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces. Though the President is largely a ceremonial head with the real power resting with the Union Cabinet headed by a Prime Minister, the position carries with it a lot of perks and prestige.

According to the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections Act, 1952, no person shall be eligible for election as President unless he is a citizen of India and he has completed the age of 35 years. He should also be qualified for "election as a member of the House of the People".

As per the Constitution, a person shall not be eligible for election as President if he holds any office of profit under the Government of India or the Government of any State or under any local or other authority subject to the control of any of the state governments.

	State	No of Seats in Assembly	Population (As per 171 census)	Value of vote of 1 MLA	Total Votes
1	Andhra Pradesh	294	43502708	148	148x294=43,512
2	Arunachal Pradesh	60	4,67,511	8	008x060=480
3	Assam	126	1,46,25,152	116	116x126=14,616
4	Bihar	243	4,21,26,236	173	173x243=42039
5	Chhattisgarh	90	1,16,37,494	129	129x090=11610
6	Goa	40	7,95,120	20	020x040=800
7	Gujarat	182	2,66,97,475	147	147x182=26754
8	Haryana	90	1,00,36,808	112	112x090=10080
9	Himachal Pradesh	68	34,60,434	51	051x068=3468
10	Jammu & Kashmir	87	63,00,000	72	072x087=6264
11	Jharkhand	81	1,42,27,133	176	176x081=14256
12	Karnataka	224	2,92,99,014	131	131x224=29344
13	Kerala	140	2,13,47,375	152	152x140=21280
14	Madhya Pradesh	230	3,00,16,625	131	131x230=30130
15	Maharashtra	288	5,04,12,235	175	175x288=50400
16	Manipur	60	10,72,753	18	018x060=1080
17	Meghalaya	60	10,11,699	17	017x060=1020
18	Mizoram	40	3,32,390	8	008x040=320
19	Nagaland	60	5,16,449	9	009x060=540
20	Orissa	147	2,19,44,615	149	149x147=21903
21	Punjab	117	1,35,51,060	116	116x117=13572
22	Rajasthan	200	2,57,65,806	129	129x200=25800
23	Sikkim	32	2,09,843	7	007x032=224
24	Tamil Nadu	234	4,11,99,168	176	176x234=41184
25	Tripura	60	15,56,342	26	026x060=1560
26	Uttarakhand	70	44,91,239	64	064x070=4480
27	Uttar Pradesh	403	8,38,49,905	208	208x403=83824
28	West Bengal	294	4,43,12,011	151	151x294=44394
29	NCT of Delhi	70	40,65,698	58	058x070=4060
30	Puducherry	30	4,71,707	16	016x030=480
Total		4120	54,93,02,005		5,49,474

List of past Presidents

First Presidential election (1952)
	Candidates	Votes polled
1.	Dr Rajendra Prasad	5,07,400
2.	Shri KT Shah	92,827
3.	Shri Thatte Lakshman Ganesh	2,672
4.	Shri Hari Ram	1,954
5.	Shri Krishna Kumar Chatterjee	533
Total		6,05,386
Second Presidential election (1957)
	Candidate	Votes Polled
1.	Dr Rajendra Prasad	4,59,698
2.	Shri Nagendra Narayan Das	2,000
3.	Chowdhry Hari Ram	2,672
Total		4,64,370
Third Presidential election (1962)
	Candidates	Votes Polled
1.	Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan	5,53,067
2.	Chowdhry Hari Ram	6,341
3.	Shri Yamuna Prasad Trisulia	3,537
	Total	5,62,945
Fourth Presidential election (1967)
	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 UP Chugani	0
11.	Dr MC Davar	0
12.	Ch Hari Ram	0
13.	Dr Man Singh	0
14.	Smt Manohara Holkar	0
15.	Shri Motilal Bhikabhai Patel	0
16.	Sh. Seetharamaiah Ramaswamy Sharma Hoysala	0
17.	Shri Satyabhakt	0
	Total	8,38,048
Fifth Presidential election (1969)
1.	Shri VV Giri	4,01,515
2.	Shri Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy	3,13,548
3.	Shri CD Deshmukh	1,12,769
4.	Shri Chandradatt Senani	5,814
5.	Smt Furcharan Kaur	940
6.	Shri Rajabhoj Pandurang Nathuji	831
7.	Pandit Babu Lal Mag	576
8.	Ch Hari Ram	125
9.	Shri Sharma Manovihari Anirudh	125
10.	Shri Khubi Ram	94
11.	Shri Bhagmal	0
12.	Shri Krishna Kumar Chatterjee	0
13.	Shri Santosh Kumar Kachhwaha	0
14.	Doctor Ramdular Tripathi Chakor	0
15.	Shri Ramanlal Purushottam Vyas	0
	Total	8,36,337
The quota fixed for election was 4,18,169 votes. As no candidate secured the required quota in the first count as above, candidate after candidate was excluded till only two candidates, namely, Shri VV Giri (with 4,20,077 votes) and Shri N Sanjeeva Reddy (with 4,05,427 votes) remained in the field. Shri VV Giri who secured the quota was declared elected by the Returning Officer on 20.08.1969 and the newly elected President assumed office on 24-08-1969.
Sixth Presidential election (1974)
	Candidates	Votes Polled
1.	Shri Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed	7,65,587
2.	Shri Tridib Chaudhuri	1,89,196
	Total	9,54,783
Seventh Presidential election (1977) 21.07.1977 - Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy won unopposed, 36 nominations rejected
Eighth Presidential election (1982)
	Candidates	Votes Polled
1.	Gyani Zail Singh	7,54,113
2.	Shri HR Khanna	2,82,685
	Total	10,36,798
Ninth Presidential election (1987)
	Candidates	Votes Polled
1.	Shri R Venkataraman	7,40,148
2.	Shri V Krishna Iyer	2,81,550
3.	Shri Mithilesh Kumar	2,223
	Total	10,23,921
10th Presidential election (1992)
	Candidates	Votes Polled
1.	Dr Shanker Dayal Sharma	6,75,804
2.	Shri GG Swell	3,46,485
3.	Shri Ram Jethmalani	2,704
4.	Kaka Joginder Singh alias Dharti Pakad	1,135
	Total	10,26,188
11th Presidential election (1997)
	Candidates	Votes Polled
1.	Shri KR Narayanan	9,56,290
2.	Shri TN Seshan	50,631
	Total	10,06,921
12th Presidential election (2002)
	Candidates	Votes Polled
1.	Dr APJ Abdul Kalam	9,22,884
2.	Smt Lakshmi Sahgal	1,07,366
	Total	10,30,250