How is the Vice President of India elected

The value of each vote in the Vice-Presidential election is one.

The Vice President election which is being held today will witness a contest between the NDA's Venkaiah Naidu and UPA's Gopalkrishna Gandhi.

The election process is similar to the one deployed in the presidential poll. The VP too is elected by the electoral college comprising members of the both houses of Parliament.
However the only difference is that in the VP election the members of the state legislature are not part of the electoral college.

According to the Election Commission, the Electoral College for this year's election consists of the following members:

• From Rajya Sabha: 233 elected and 12 nominated members
• From Lok Sabha, 543 elected and 2 nominated.
• The total members in the Electoral College are 790

Vote value:

The value of each vote in the Vice-Presidential election is one. Ballot paper, containing names of the contesting candidate, is used for the election. The ballot paper doesn't contain any party symbol. It has two columns - one containing the name of the candidate and the second for marking the order of preference.

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