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30/06/22 06:40 AM IST

Election to the Office of the Vice-President of India, 2022

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  • The term of office of Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu, Vice-President of India, is ending on 10th August, 2022.
Procedure  for Election 
  • As per Article 68 of the Constitution of India, an election to fill the vacancy caused by the expiration of the term of office of the outgoing Vice-President is required to be completed before the expiration of the term.
  • Article 324 of the Constitution read with the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections Act, 1952 and the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections Rules, 1974, vests the superintendence, direction and control of the conduct of election to the office of the Vice-President of India in the Election Commission of India.
  • The Election Commission is mandated to ensure that the election to the office of the Vice-President of India must be a free and fair election and the Commission is taking all necessary steps for discharging its constitutional responsibility.
  • As per Article 66 of the Constitution of India, the Vice-President is elected by the members of the Electoral College consisting of the members of both Houses of Parliament in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote.
  • The Electoral College consists of:
    1. 233 elected members of Rajya Sabha,
    2. 12 nominated members of Rajya Sabha, and
    3. 543 elected members of Lok Sabha.
  • Electoral College comprises of a total of 788 members of both Houses of Parliament. Since, all the electors are members of both Houses of Parliament, the value of vote of each Member of Parliament would be same i.e.1 (one).

Proportional Representation System 
  • Article 66 (1) of the Constitution provides that the election shall be held in accordance with the system of Proportional Representation by means of the single transferable vote and the voting at such election shall be by secret ballot. 
  • In this system, the elector has to mark preferences against the names of the candidates.
  • Preference can be marked in the international form of Indian numerals, in Roman form, or in the form in any recognised Indian languages.
  • Preference has to be marked in figures only and shall not be indicated in words.
  • The elector can mark as many preferences as the number of candidates. While the marking of the first preference is compulsory for the ballot paper to be valid, other preferences are optional.
Source- PIB 

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