Indian presidential election, 1987
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The Election Commission of India held indirect 9th presidential elections of India
on July 1987. R. Venkataraman
with 740,148 votes won over his nearest rival V.R. Krishna Iyer who got 281,550 votes.
President of India
The President of India is the head of state and first citizen of India, as well as the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces. President of India is also the formal head of all the three branches of Indian Democracy - Legislature, Executive and Judiciary...
on July 1987. R. Venkataraman
R. Venkataraman
Ramaswamy Venkataraman was an Indian lawyer, Indian independence activist and politician who served as a Union minister and as the eighth President of India....
with 740,148 votes won over his nearest rival V.R. Krishna Iyer who got 281,550 votes.
Results
Source: Web archive of Election Commission of India website| Candidate | Electoral Values |
|---|---|
| R. Venkataraman R. Venkataraman Ramaswamy Venkataraman was an Indian lawyer, Indian independence activist and politician who served as a Union minister and as the eighth President of India.... |
740,148 |
| V. R. Krishna Iyer V. R. Krishna Iyer Vaidyanathapura Rama Krishna Iyer , popularly known as Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer, is a former judge in the Supreme Court of India. He was born in a village in Malabar region of Kerala... |
281,550 |
| Mithilesh Kumar | 2,223 |
| Total | 1,023,921 |