1974 Indian vice presidential election explained

Election Name:	1974 Indian vice presidential election
Country:	India
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1969 Indian vice presidential election
Previous Year:	1969
Next Election:	1979 Indian vice presidential election
Next Year:	1979
Election Date:	27 August 1974
Nominee1:	Basappa Danappa Jatti
Party1:	Indian National Congress (R)
Home State1:	Karnataka
Electoral Vote1:	521
Percentage1:	78.70%
Nominee2:	Niral Enem Horo
Party2:	Jharkhand Party
Home State2:	Jharkhand
Electoral Vote2:	141
Percentage2:	21.30%
Vice President
Before Election:	Gopal Swarup Pathak
Before Party:	Independent politician
After Election:	Basappa Danappa Jatti
After Party:	Indian National Congress (R)

The 1974 Indian vice presidential election was held on 27 August 1974. B. D. Jatti defeated his opponent, Niral Enem Horo to become the fifth vice president of India.^[1]

There were some changes in the law regarding vice-presidential elections, as follows:

• The nomination paper of a vice-presidential candidate shall be subscribed by at least 5 electors as proposers and 5 electors as seconders.
• The security deposit was changed to Rs. 2,500.
• An election petition challenging an election can be presented only before the Supreme Court by any candidate or at least 10 electors joined as petitioners.
• The time table for the elections to the offices of the President and Vice-President was made statutory. It was provided that the last date for making nominations shall be the 14th day after the publication of the notification calling the election, the scrutiny will be on the day following such last date for filing nominations, the last date for withdrawal of candidatures will be the second day following the date of scrutiny and the date of poll, if necessary, shall be not earlier than the fifteenth day after the last date for withdrawal of candidatures.

Result

|- align=center!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Candidate
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Party
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Electoral Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes
|-|align="left"|B. D. Jatti||align="left"|INC(R)||521||78.70|-|align="left"|Niral Enem Horo||align="left"|Jharkhand Party||141||21.30|-| colspan="4" style="background:#e9e9e9;"||-! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"| Total! style="text-align:right;"|662! style="text-align:right;"|100.00|-| colspan="4" style="background:#e9e9e9;"| |-|-|colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Valid Votes||662||98.51|-|colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Invalid Votes||10||1.49|-|colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Turnout||672||87.61|-|colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Abstentions||95||12.39|-|colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Electors||767|| style="background:#e9e9e9;"||-|}

See also

• 1974 Indian presidential election

Notes and References

1. http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/President_VP_Elec2012/Vice%20Presidentail%20Election%20Background.pdf Background material regarding fourteenth election to the office of the Vice-President, 2012, Election Commission of India