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Hamid Ansari re-elected vice president
Tuesday August 07, 2012 08:23:35 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: UPA
candidate Hamid Ansari was Tuesday re-elected India's vice
president, defeating NDA nominee Jaswant Singh.
Lok Sabha Secretary General T.K. Viswanathan, the returning
officer for the poll, made the announcement about Ansari's
re-election minutes after the counting ended Tuesday evening at
Parliament House.
Ansari polled 490 first preference votes out of 728 valid votes
cast in the election. Singh polled 238 votes.
Polling in the vice presidential election was held earlier in the
day.
Vishwanathan said that 787 members were eligible to cast vote and
736 exercised their franchise. Eight votes were found invalid.
He said that Ansari needed 365 votes to be declared elected.
"Therefore, Mr. Ansari is duly elected as vice president of
India," Vishwanathan announced.
Ansari, who sought re-election for a second term, was backed by
the Congress, most other parties of the ruling United Progressive
Alliance, those supporting the alliance from outside and some Left
parties.
Jaswant Singh, a Bharatiya Janata Party leader and a former
minister, had the backing of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA)
as well as the AIADMK.
The vice president is elected by members of an electoral college
consisting of members of both houses of parliament in accordance
with the system of proportional representation by means of single
transferable vote. Nominated members of the Rajya Sabha and Lok
Sabha are also entitled to take part in the election.
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