Statement of Value of Votes of Elected Members of the State Legislative Assemblies and Both Houses of Parliament as Per Provisions of Article 55(2) of the Constitution of India

S.No.	Name of the State	No. of seats in the Assembly (elective)	Population (1971 Census)	Value of vote of each M.L.A.	Total value of votes for the state
1.	ANDHRA PRADESH	294	43502708	148	148×294=43512
2.	ARUNACHAL PRADESH	60	467511	8	008×060=480
3.	ASSAM	126	14625152	116	116×126=14616
4.	BIHAR	243	42126236	173	173×243=42039
5.	CHHATTISGARH	90	11637494	129	129×090=11610
6.	GOA	40	795120	20	020×040=800
7.	GUJARAT	182	26697475	147	147×182=26754
8.	HARYANA	90	10036808	112	112×090=10080
9.	HIMACHAL PRADESH	68	3460434	51	051×068=3468
10.	JAMMU & KASHMIR*	87	6300000	72	072×087=6264
11.	JHARKHAND	81	14227133	176	176×081=14256
12.	KARNATAKA	224	29299014	131	131×224=29344
13.	KERALA	140	21347375	152	152×140=21280
14.	MADHYA PRADESH	230	30016625	131	131×230=30130
15.	MAHARASHTRA	288	50412235	175	175×288=50400
16.	MANIPUR	60	1072753	18	018×060=1080
17.	MEGHALAYA	60	1011699	17	017×060=1020
18.	MIZORAM	40	332390	8	008×040=320
19.	NAGALAND	60	516449	9	009×060=540
20.	ORISSA	147	21944615	149	149×147=21903
21.	PUNJAB	117	13551060	116	116×117=13572
22.	RAJASTHAN	200	25765806	129	129×200=25800
23.	SIKKIM	32	209843	7	007×032=224
24.	TAMIL NADU	234	41199168	176	176×234=41184
25.	TRIPURA	60	1556342	26	026×060=1560
26.	UTTARAKHAND	70	4491239	64	064×070=4480
27	UTTAR PRADESH	403	83849905	208	208×403=83824
28	WEST BENGAL	294	44312011	151	151×294=44394
29	NCT OF DELHI	70	4065698	58	058×070=4060
30	PUDUCHERRY	30	471707	16	016×030=480
TOTAL		4120	549302005		=  549474

* Constitution (Application to the Jammu & Kashmir) Order

(A)        VALUE OF EACH VOTE OF MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT

TOTAL MEMBERS

LOK SABHA (543) + RAJYA SABHA (233) = 776

VALUE OF EACH VOTE =   549474  = 708

                                                    776

(B)        TOTAL VALUE OF VOTES OF

              776 MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT = 708 X 776 = 549408

(C)        TOTAL ELECTORS FOR THE

             PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION = MLAs (4120) + MPs (776) = 4896

(D)        TOTAL VALUE OF 4896 ELECTORS FOR

             THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2012 = 549474 + 549408 = 1098882

Facts at Glance- Presidential Elections from 1952 to 2007

	Date of Poll	Electoral College	No. of Votes for Each Member	No. of Contesting Candidates	Elected	Votes Secured	Date of Assumption of Office
1st Presidential Election	02.05.1952	Elected Members of Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and 23 State Legislative Assemblies. Total Electors 4056	Each M.P. had 494 Votes. Votes of MLAs differed from State to State. Lowest Value of Votes MLAs of Coorg State was 7 and highest of 143 for MLAs of U.P. Population Basis of 1951 Census.	Five	Dr. Rajendra Prasad	5,07,400	13.05.1952
2nd Presidential Election	06.05.1957	Elected Members of Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and 14 State Legislative Assemblies.	Each M.Ps = 496 votes Lowest value of votes for MLAs of J &K was 59 and highest of 147 of U.P.	Three	Dr. Rajendra Prasad	4,59,698	13.05.1957
3rd Presidential Election	07.05.1962	Elected Members of Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and 15 State Legislative Assemblies.	Each MPs= 493votes Lowest value of votes for MLAs of J &K was 59 and highest of 147 of U.P.	Three	Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan	5,53,067	13.05.1962
4th Presidential Election	06.05.1967	Elected Members of Lok Sabha (520) , Rajya Sabha (228) and 17 State Legislative Assemblies (3383)	Each MPs= 576 votes Lowest value of votes for MLAs of Nagaland was 08 and highest of 174 of U.P. The population basis was 1961 census.	Seventeen	Dr. Zakir Hussain	4,71,244	13.05.1967
5th Presidential Election	16.08.1969		-Do-	Fifteen	Shri V.V. Giri	4,01,515	24.08.1969
6th Presidential Election	17.08.1974	Elected Members of Lok Sabha (521) , Rajya Sabha (230) and 21 State Legislative Assemblies (3654)	Each MPs = 723 votes Lowest value of votes for MLAs of Nagaland was 09 and highest of 208 of U.P. The population basis was 1971 census.	Two	Shri Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed	7,65,587	24.08.1974
7th Presidential Election	06.08.1977	Elected Members of Lok Sabha (524) , Rajya Sabha (232) and 22 State Legislative Assemblies (3776)	Each MPs = 702 votes Lowest value of votes for MLAs of Sikkim was 07 and highest of 208 of U.P.	One	Shri Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy	Elected unopposed ( First time a candidate was declared elected to the highest office of President of India without a contest.	25.07.1977
8th Presidential Election	12.07.1982	Elected Members of Lok Sabha (524) , Rajya Sabha (232) and 22 State Legislative Assemblies (3827)	Each MPs = 702 votes Lowest value of votes for MLAs of Sikkim was 07 and highest of 208 of U.P	Two	Gyani Zail Singh	7,54,113	25.07.1982
9th Presidential Election	13.07.1987	Elected Members of Lok Sabha (543) , Rajya Sabha (233) and 25 State Legislative Assemblies (3919)	Each MPs = 702 votes Lowest value of votes for MLAs of Sikkim was 07 and highest of 208 of U.P	Three	Shri R. Venkataraman	7,40,148	25.07.1987
10th Presidential Election	13.07.1992	Elected Members of Lok Sabha (543) , Rajya Sabha (233) and 25 State Legislative Assemblies (3972)	Each MPs = 702 votes Lowest value of votes for MLAs of Sikkim was 07 and highest of 208 of U.P	Four	Dr. Shanker Dayal Sharma	6,75,804	25.07.1992
11th Presidential Election	14.07.1997	Elected Members of Lok Sabha (543) , Rajya Sabha (233) and 27 State Legislative Assemblies (4072)	Each MPs = 708 votes No of votes of each MLAs differed from state to state.	Two	Shri K.R. Narayanan	9,56,290	25.07.1997
12th Presidential Election	15.07.2002	Elected Members of Lok Sabha (543) , Rajya Sabha (233) and 30 State Legislative Assemblies (4120) including NCT of Delhi and UT of Pondicherry.	Each MPs = 708 votes No of votes of each MLAs differed from state to state.	Two	Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam	9,22,884	25.07.2002
13th Presidential Election	19.07.2007	Elected Members of Lok Sabha (543) , Rajya Sabha (233) and 30 State  legislative Assemblies (4120) including NCT of Delhi and UT of Pondicherry.	Each MPs = 708 votes No of votes of each MLAs differed from state to state.	Two	Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil	6,38,116	25.07.2007

Important Points :

• During fifth Presidential Elections (1969) , the Commission made the Civil Aviation authorities to permit the escort of the polled ballot boxes (the respectively Assistant Returning Officers) to keep the sealed ballot boxes by his side closely near his seat in the Plane.
• During Sixth Presidential Elections (1974), The Presidential And Vice-Presidential Act,1952 was amended to provide for nomination paper of a Presidential candidate shall be subscribed by at least 10 electors as proposers and 10 electors as seconders,  the Security deposit is made Rs. 2,500/- and election petition challenging an election can be presented only before the Supreme Court by any contesting candidate or by minimum  20 electors joined together as petitioners.
• During the 11^th Presidential Elections (1997), the President of India promulgated an Ordinance on 5^th June, 1997 to further amend the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Act, 1952. The following amendments to the act were made:-

          (a) In the case of the Presidential Election, the number of Proposers and seconders for            any nomination paper was increased from ten proposers to fifty proposers and from ten seconders to fifty seconders.

        (b) In the case of the Presidential Election, the number of Proposers and seconders for  any nomination paper was likewise increased from five Proposers and five Seconders   to twenty proposers and twenty seconders.

        ( c) The amount of Security was increased from Rs. 2,500/- to Rs. 15,000/-.

Election to the Office of President of India, 2012 (14th Presidential Election)

The term of office of Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil, President of India, ends on 24^th July, 2012. An election to fill the vacancy caused by the expiration of the term of office of the outgoing President shall need to be completed before the expiration of her term. The law provides that the notification for election shall be issued on, or as soon as conveniently may be after, the sixtieth day before the expiry of term of office of the out going President.

        Article 324 of the Constitution read with the Presidential and Vice –Presidential Elections Act, 1952, and the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections Rules, 1974 vests the superintendence, direction and control of the conduct of election to the office of the President of India in the Election Commission of India. The Election Commission is mandated to ensure that the election to the office of the President of India, which is the highest elective office in the nation, must be a free and fair election and the Commission is taking all necessary steps for discharging its constitutional responsibility.

        The President is elected by the members of the Electoral College consisting of:

(I)               elected members of both Houses of Parliament, and

(II)              elected members of the Legislative Assemblies of all States including National Capital Territory of Delhi and the Union Territory of Puducherry.

(The nominated members of either Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha or Legislative Assemblies of the States are not eligible to be included in the Electoral College and therefore, they are not entitled to participate in the election).

     The Seven-Judges Bench of the Supreme Court of India unanimously held in 1974 in the case of Presidential election that “the Electoral College as mentioned in Article 54 is independent of the Legislatures mentioned in Article 54. None of the Legislatures mentioned in Article 54 has for the purpose of that Article any separate identity vis-a-vis in the Electoral College. The Electoral College compendiously indicates a number of persons, holding the qualifications specified in the Article to constitute the electorate for the election of the President and to act as independent electors…”

            Article 55 (3) of the Constitution provides that the election shall be held in accordance with the System of Proportional Representation by means of single transferable vote and the voting at such election shall be by secret ballot.

A nomination paper of a candidate has to be subscribed by at least fifty electors as Proposers and at least fifty electors as Seconders. An elector can subscribe to only one nomination paper of a candidate as either a Proposer or a Seconder. The security deposit for the election is Rs. 15,000/- (Rupees fifteen thousand only), which is required to be made along with the nomination paper. 

Click here for downloading Background Material titled “Election to the office of the President of India 2012” brought out by Election Commission of India.   

13th IIFA AWARDS

The International Indian Film Academy Awards, also known as the IIFA Awards are presented annually by the International Indian Film Academy to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in Bollywood, the Hindi language film industry. Instituted in 2000, the ceremony is held in different countries around the world every year. This award ceremony has been organised by Wizcraft International Entertainment Pvt Ltd – one of India’s premier event management and entertainment agencies - since its inception. The first awards were presented in 2000 at The Millennium Dome in London, United Kingdom. From then on the awards were held at locations around the world signifying the international success of Bollywood. The award ceremonies are held in various places around the world.

The 2012 IIFA Awards, officially the 13th International Indian Film Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the International Indian Film Academy honoring the films of 2011 took place on June 9, 2012, at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore.

List of Awards: 

Best Actor	Ranbir Kapoor (Rock Star)
Best Actress	Vidya Balan (The Dirty Picture)
Best Movie	Zindagi Na Milegi Dobra
Best Director	Zoya Akhtar (Zindagi Na Milegi Dobra)
Best Story	Zoya Akhtar (Zindagi Na Milegi Dobra)
Best Supporting Actor	Farhan Akhtar (Zindagi Na Milegi Dobra)
Best Music Director	AR Rahman (Rock Star)
Best Female Debutante
Best Supporting Actress	Parineeti Chopra (Ladies vs Ricky Bahl)
Best Male Deutante	Vidyut Jamwal (Force)
Best Negative Role Actor	Prakash Raj (Singham)
Best Comic Role Actor	Ritesh Deshmukh (Double Dhamaal)
Best Male Playback Singer	Mohit Chauhan (Naadan Parindey - Rockstar)
Best Lyrics	Irshad Kamil (Naadan Parindey-Rockstar)
Best Female Playback Singer	Shreya Ghosal (Teri Meri - Bodyguard)
LIV ULLMANN	Honoured for her outstanding contribution to international Cinema
REKHA	Honoured for her outstanding achievement in Indian Cinema
RAMESH SIPPY	Honoured for the outstanding contribution to Indian Cinema Award

Technical awards

Best Action: Jai Singh Nijjar for Singham
Best Special Effects: Red Chillies VFX for Ra.One
Best Choreography: Bosco-Caesar for Senorita from Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Best Cinematography: Carlos Catalan for Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Best Costume Design: Niharika Khan for The Dirty Picture
Best Dialogue: Rajat Aroraa for The Dirty Picture
Best Editing: Anand Subaya for Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Best Makeup: Vikram Gaikwad for The Dirty Picture
Best Production Design: Sabu Cyril for Ra.One
Best Screenplay: Reema Kagti and Zoya Akhtar
Best Sound Re-Recording: Anuj Mathur and Baylon Fonseca for Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Best Sound Recording: Resul Pookutty and Amrit Pritam Dutta for Ra.One