Pranab gets majority of MP votes

New Delhi, July 22, 2012

UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee got the overwhelming support of Parliamentarians in the President's election securing a vote value of 3,73,116.



Mr. Mukherjee's rival P.A. Sangma, supported by some opposition parties including BJP, managed to get a vote value of only 1,45,848 in the counting of votes which is in progress at Parliament House, official sources said.



A total of 748 MPs voted in the election on July 19. Of the total votes, Mr. Mukherjee got 527 votes while Sangma got 206.



Fifteen votes including that of SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav were invalid.



Each MP has a vote value of 708. There are a total of 776 voters in both the houses of Parliament.



The electoral college consists of 4120 MLAs in the states.



In Andhra Pradesh, which has a 294-member Assembly, Mr. Mukherjee got the support of 182 MLAs including that of Congress and YSR Congress while Sangma got the backing of three. Five were invalid.



In terms of vote value, Mr. Mukherjee got 26936 while Mr. Sangma 444. A total of 190 MLAs voted because TDP and TRS abstained.



Each MLA in Andhra Pradesh has a vote value of 148.



Mr. Mukherjee kept up his lead even in the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, where he got 54 of the 59 votes polled. The vote value corresponded to 432 for Mr. Mukherjee, while it was 16 for Mr. Sangma.



Three votes were invalid.



In the 126-member Assam Assembly, Mr. Mukherjee got 110 votes while Mr. Sangma got 13. Two votes were invalid while one did not vote.



In terms of vote value, Mr. Mukherjee got 12,760 while Mr. Sangma got 1,508.



In Bihar too, where the ruling JD(U) has declared support for Mr. Mukherjee, the UPA candidate got 146 out of the 240 votes polled in the 243 member Assembly. Mr. Sangma got 90, mostly from BJP, which shares power with JD(U).



Mr. Mukherjee's vote value in in the state was 25,258 while for Mr. Sangma it was 15,570.



Three votes were invalid while one did not not vote.



Earlier report:



Counting of ballots began amidst tight security in Parliament House in the presence of authorised representatives of both Mr. Mukherjee and Mr. Sangma.



The ballot boxes of votes cast in Parliament House were taken up first for counting after which those from the states will be opened.



Authorised representatives inspected the seals of the ballot boxes and the counting began after ascertaining that they were not tampered with.



As many as 95 per cent of the 4,896 electors — 776 MPs and 4,120 MLAs — had exercised their franchise on Thursday at the polling centres set up in Parliament House and 30 other states and Union territories with assemblies.



All the ballot boxes from the states had reached Parliament House on Saturday and were kept in a strong room.



Mr. Mukherjee appears set to win the election comfortably with UPA managers confident that he would bag over seven lakh of vote value of the total votes polled.



The UPA constituents and its key supporting parties like SP, BSP, RJD and others had supported Mr. Mukherjee. Besides, he also got the support of opposition parties like Shiv Sena and JD(U).



Mr. Sangma is expected to garner a vote value of around three lakh.


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