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QUALIFICATIONS, OATH AND CONDITIONS
Qualifications
To be eligible for election as Vice-President, a person should fulfil the following qualifications:
1. He should be a citizen of India.
2. He should have completed 35 years of age.
3. He should be qualified for election as a member of the Rajya Sabha.
4. He should not hold any office of profit under the Union government or any state government or any local authority or any other public authority.
Table 18.1 Elections of the Vice-Presidents (1952–2017)
Sl. Election Victorious No. Year Candidate | No. of Votes secured | Runner-up Candidate | No. of Votes secured |
1. 1952 Dr. S. Radhakrishnan | - | Unopposed | - |
2. 1957 Dr. S. Radhakrishnan | - | Unopposed | - |
3. 1962 Dr. Zakir Hussain | 568 | N. Samant Singh | 14 |
4. 1967 V.V. Giri | 486 | Prof. Habib | 192 |
5. 1969 G.S. Pathak | 400 | H.V. Kamath | 156 |
6. 1974 B.D. Jatti | 521 | N.E. Horo | 141 |
7. 1979 M. Hidayatullah | - | unopposed | - |
8. 1984 R. Venkataraman | 508 | B.C. Kambley | 207 |
9. 1987 Dr. Shankar | - | unopposed | - |
Dayal Sharma | ||||
10. 1992 | K.R. Narayanan | 700 | Kaka Joginder Singh | 01 |
11. 1997 | Krishna Kant | 441 | Surjeet Singh Barnala | 273 |
12. 2002 | B.S. Shekhawat | 454 | Shushil Kumar Shinde | 305 |
13. 2007 Mohd. Hamid 455 Najma 222 Ansari Heptullah | ||||
14. 2012 Mohd. Hamid 490 Jaswant 238 Ansari Singh | ||||
15. 2017 | Venkaiah Naidu | 516 | Gopal Krishna Gandhi | 244 |
But, a sitting President or Vice-President of the Union, the governor of any state and a minister for the Union or any state is not deemed to hold any office of profit and hence qualified for being a candidate for Vice-President.
Further, the nomination of a candidate for election to the office of Vice-President must be subscribed by at least 20 electors as proposers and 20 electors as seconders. Every candidate has to make a security deposit of ₹15,000 in the Reserve Bank of India.4