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Vice-President Election Date 2025
August 5 , 2025
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- Elections for the post of Vice President would be held on September 9.
- And the counting of votes would also take place on the same day.
- The Election Commission of India (EC) announced this.
- The notification for the VP polls will be issued on August 7, and the last date for filing nomination papers will be August 21.
- The date for the scrutiny of nominations would be August 22 and the last date for withdrawal of candidatures is August 25.
- The polling shall take place in Room No. F-101, Vasudha, First Floor, Parliament House, New Delhi.
- The VP is elected by the members of the electoral college, consisting of the members of both Houses of Parliament.
- The electoral college consists of 233 elected members of the Rajya Sabha (presently five seats are vacant), 12 nominated members of the Rajya Sabha, and 543 elected members of the Lok Sabha (1 seat is vacant).
- The electoral college comprises a total of 788 members out of which 782 members would be able to vote.
- Since all the electors are members of both Houses of Parliament, the value of the vote of each Member of Parliament would be the same, i.e. one.
- The polls would be in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote.
- In this system, the elector has to mark preferences against the names of the candidates.
- Preference can be marked in the international form of Indian numerals, in Roman form, or in the form of any recognised Indian language.
- Preference has to be marked in figures only and shall not be indicated in words.
- The elector can mark as many preferences as the number of candidates.
- For marking the vote, the Commission will supply particular pens.
- Voting by using any other pen shall lead to invalidation of the vote at the time of counting.
- A nomination paper of a candidate has to be subscribed by at least 20 electors as proposers and by at least another 20 electors as seconders.
- Political parties cannot issue any whip to their MPs in the matter of voting in the Vice-Presidential election.
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