Value of the vote of an MLA = (Total Population of the State)/ (Total number of elected members in the Legislative Assembly X 1000)

Fractions exceeding one-half being counted as one.

The following example will explain the method of calculation more clearly:

♤ Suppose the population of state A is 37,129,852. Let us take the total number of elected members in the Legislative Assembly of A to be 276. To obtain the number of votes which each such elected member will be entitled to cast at the election of the President we have first to divide 37,129,852 (which is the population) by 276 (which is the total number of elected members), and then to divide the quotient by 1,000. In this case the quotient is 134,528.449. The number of votes which each such member will be entitled to cast would be 134,528.449/1000 i.e. 135 (as fraction is 0.528 which greater than 0.5 thus counted as one).

Each elected member of either House of Parliament (MP) have such number of votes as obtained by dividing the total number of votes assigned to the members of the Legislative Assemblies of the States divided 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.