Here is a table summarizing the elections of Vice-Presidents in India from 1952 to 2023:
Year | Vice-President | Political Party |
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1952 | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | Independent (endorsed by INC) |
1957 | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | Independent (endorsed by INC) |
1962 | Zakir Husain | Independent (endorsed by INC) |
1967 | V. V. Giri | Independent (endorsed by INC) |
1969 | Gopal Swarup Pathak | Independent (endorsed by INC) |
1974 | B. D. Jatti | Independent (endorsed by INC) |
1979 | R. Venkataraman | Independent (endorsed by INC) |
1984 | R. Venkataraman | Independent (endorsed by INC) |
1987 | Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma | Independent (endorsed by INC) |
1992 | Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma | Independent (endorsed by INC) |
1997 | Krishan Kant | Independent (endorsed by INC) |
2002 | Bhairon Singh Shekhawat | Independent (endorsed by NDA) |
2007 | Hamid Ansari | Independent (endorsed by UPA) |
2012 | Hamid Ansari | Independent (endorsed by UPA) |
2017 | Venkaiah Naidu | Independent (endorsed by NDA) |
2022 | Jagdeep Dhankhar | Independent (endorsed by NDA) |
Please note that the Vice-President of India is elected by an electoral college consisting of members of both houses of Parliament (Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha) and the elected members of the Legislative Assemblies of States and Union territories. The Vice-President is not directly elected by the public but is elected by representatives of the people at various levels of government. The term of the Vice-President is five years, and there is no limit to the number of terms a Vice-President can serve.