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1952 Indian presidential election

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Field	Value
election_name	1952 Indian presidential election
country	India
type	presidential
ongoing	no
previous_election	1950 Indian presidential election
previous_year	1950
next_election	1957 Indian presidential election
next_year	1957
election_date	2 May 1952
image1
nominee1	Rajendra Prasad
party1	Indian National Congress
home_state1	Bihar
electoral_vote1	507,400
percentage1	83.81%
image2
nominee2	K. T. Shah
color2	FFC0CB
party2	Independent
home_state2	Bombay
electoral_vote2	92,827
percentage2	15.33%
map_image	File:1952 Indian Presidential Election.svg
title	President
before_election	Rajendra Prasad (Interim)
before_party	INC
after_election	Rajendra Prasad
after_party	INC

The Election Commission of India held the first presidential elections of India on 2 May 1952. Dr. Rajendra Prasad won his first election with 507,400 votes (83.81%) over his nearest rival K. T. Shah who got 92,827 votes (15.3%).

Schedule

The election schedule was announced by the Election Commission of India on 4 April 1952.

S.No.	Poll Event	Date	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.
Last Date for filing nomination	12 April 1952
Date for Scrutiny of nomination	14 April 1952
Last Date for Withdrawal of nomination	17 April 1952
Date of Poll	2 May 1952
Date of Counting	6 May 1952

Results

Source: Web archive of Election Commission of India website

Candidate	Electoral Values
Rajendra Prasad	507,400
K. T. Shah	92,827
Lakshman Ganesh Thatte	2,672
Chaudhary Hari Ram	1,954
Krishna Kumar Chatterjee	533
Total	605,386

References

"Background material related to Election to the office of President of India 2017". [[Election Commission of India]].
"Election Commission of India".
"Presidential Candidates (from 1952 to 2007)".
"First real contest for office of President witnessed in 1967".

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