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Indian presidential election, 2017

Indian presidential election, 2017
India
2012 ←
July 2017 → 2022

Incumbent President

Pranab Mukherjee
INC




Pranab Mukherjee
INC


A presidential election will be held in India before 25 July 2017, the day when incumbent President term ends. Incumbent eligible for re-election too as no term limit exists in India.

The president is elected by an electoral college consisting of the elected members of both houses of parliament, the elected members of the Legislative assemblies of the 29 states and the elected members of the legislative assemblies of the Union Territories of Delhi and Puducherry.

The nomination of a candidate for election to the office of the President must be subscribed by at least 50 electors as proposers and 50 electors as seconders. The election is held in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of the Single transferable vote method. The voting takes place by secret ballot. The manner of election of President is provided by Article 55 of the Constitution.

The following individuals have been mentioned by some media sources as potential candidates.

Sarsanghchalak of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
Mohan Bhagwat


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