Election Commission released Vice Presidential election dates, know when the result will come

The Election Commission on Friday released the important dates related to the Vice Presidential elections. Voting will be held on 9 September if required for the Vice Presidential election and the result will also be released on this day. Let us tell you that Jagdeep Dhankhar resigned from the post of Vice President on July 21, citing health reasons. After this, elections are being held for the new Vice President.

Vice Presidential election schedule

• Election Commission notification of election notification- August 07, 2025 (Thursday)
• Last date for nomination-21 August, 2025 (Thursday
• Date of scrutiny of nominations- 22 August, 2025 (Friday)
• Last date for withdrawal of candidates- August 25, 2025 (Monday)
• The date, the day the voting, if necessary, will be conducted- September 09, 2025 (Tuesday)
• Voting time- Purva. 10.00 from up. Till 05.00 pm
• The date, the day the counting of votes, if necessary, will be conducted- September 09, 2025 (Tuesday)

How many people will do voting?

According to Article 66 of the Constitution of India, the Vice President is elected by the Electoral Meal formed from members of both houses of Parliament by a single transitional vote system. The Electoral Mandal for the 17th Deputy Electric Election, 2025 includes the following:-

• 233 elected members of Rajya Sabha (currently 05 seats are vacant)
• 12 nominated members of Rajya Sabha, and
• 543 elected members of Lok Sabha (currently 01 seats are vacant)

The Election Commission has stated that the electoralland consists of a total of 788 members of both houses of Parliament (currently 782 members). Since all the electoral parliament is members of both houses, the value of each member of Parliament will be uniform ie 1 (one).

Understand single transferable vote method

Article 66 (1) of the Constitution provides that the election will be conducted according to the proportional representation system by single transferable vote method and in such an election the voting will be done by secret ballot paper. In this system, the electoral has to inscribe preference in front of the names of the candidates. Preference can be marked as an international, in Roman form, or any recognized Indian languages of Indian numerals. Preference is only to be marked in digits and will not be indicated in words. The electorate can mark as many preference as the number of candidates. Whereas, it is mandatory to mark the first prefererance for the valid of the ballot, the marking of other preference is optional.

To mark the opinion, the Commission will provide a special pen (PEN). This pen will be given to the electors while handing the ballot at the polling station by the specified officer. The electors only have to mark the ballot from this particular pen and not from any other pen. If voted using another pen, the vote will be invalid at the time of counting.

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