NDA's CP Radhakrishnan wins vice presidential election

CP Radhakrishnan, the candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), has won the vice presidential election.

Radhakrishnan secured 452 votes against INDIA bloc’s candidate B Sudershan Reddy’s 300. The majority-mark was 377.

After the counting of votes, Rajya Sabha Secretary General PC Modysaid: “NDA nominee and Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan got 452 first preference votes. He has been elected as the Vice-President of India… Opposition’s vice-presidential candidate Justice Sudershan Reddy secured 300 first preference votes.”

#WATCH | Delhi: PC Mody, Secretary-General, Rajya Sabha says, "NDA nominee and Maharashtra Governor C.P. Radhakrishnan got 452 first preference votes. He has been elected as the Vice President of India... Opposition's vice-presidential candidate Justice Sudershan Reddy secured… pic.twitter.com/hW7dUY0yfi

— ANI (@ANI) September 9, 2025

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NDA’s candidate Radhakrishnan has most recently served as the Governor of Maharashtra. He was previously the Governor of Jharkhand and a Lok Sabha MP. In a previous role as the BJP’s chief of the Tamil Nadu unit, he is considered to have played an important role in establishing the party in the state.

INDIA bloc’s Reddy is a former judge of the Supreme Court. He retired in 2011. He is the first former SC judge to run for the vice presidency.

The NDA had 427 votes. The fact that its candidate got 452 votes suggests that people from outside of the NDA indulged in cross-voting.

The Biju Janata Dal (BJD), Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) abstained from the election.

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Voting for the election began after 10 am and Prime Minister Narendra Modi cast the first vote. The voting continued till 5 pm and the counting of votes began after that.

The Vice President of India is elected as per the Article 66 of the Constitution. The Article 66 says that an Electoral College consisting of the members of both Houses of Parliament elects the vice president. The winner is decided by a simple majority. In this election, 240 Rajya Sabha MPs and 542 Lok Sabha MPs formed the electoral college — there are currently five vacancies in the Raja Sabha and one vacancy in the Lok Sabha.

To be eligible to contest the vice presidential election, a person needs to be an Indian citizen of at least 35-years of age and not hold any office of profit. They also need at least 20 MPs to back them as proposers and at least 20 MPs as seconders.