## CONSTITUTION 55

### CONSTITUTION 55 — Manner of election of President
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> 55. Manner of election of President.-(1) As far as practicable, there
shall be uniformity in the scale of representation of the different States at the
election of the President.
(2) For the purpose of securing such uniformity among the States inter se
as well as parity between the States as a whole and the Union, the number of
votes which each elected member of Parliament and of the Legislative Assembly
of each State is entitled to cast at such election shall be determined in the
following manner:-
(a) every elected member of the Legislative Assembly of a State shall
have as many votes as there are multiples of one thousand in the quotient
obtained by dividing the population of the State by the total number of the
elected members of the Assembly;

1. Ins. by the Constitution (Seventieth Amendment) Act, 1992, s. 2 (w.e.f. 1-6-1995).
* Now Puducherry vide the Pondicherry (Alteration of Name) Act, 2006 (44 of 2006),
s. 3 (w.e.f. 1-10-2006).
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(b) if, after taking the said multiples of one thousand, the remainder is
not less than five hundred, then the vote of each member referred to in
sub-clause (a) shall be further increased by one;
(c) each elected member of either House of Parliament shall have such
number of votes as may be obtained by dividing the total number of votes
assigned to the members of the Legislative Assemblies of the States under
sub-clauses (a) and (b) by the total number of the elected members of both
Houses of Parliament, fractions exceeding one-half being counted as one
and other fractions being disregarded.
(3) The election of the President shall be held in accordance with the
system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote
and the voting at such election shall be by secret ballot.
1[Explanation.-In this article, the expression "population" means the
population as ascertained at the last preceding census of which the relevant
figures have been published:
Provided that the reference in this Explanation to the last preceding census
of which the relevant figures have been published shall, until the relevant figures
for the first census taken after the year 2[2026] have been published, be construed
as a reference to the 1971 census.]