who elects the president of India?

							













The President is elected by the members of an electoral college consisting of  the elected members of both the Houses of Parliament
 and the elected members of  the Legislative Assemblies of States and the Union Territories of Delhi and  Pondicherry.
manner of election of President :
According to Article 55 of the Constitution, as for as  practicable, there has to be uniformity in the scale of representation of the  different states at the election of the President. For the purpose of securing  such uniformity among the States inner as well as party between the States as a  whole and the union the number of votes which each State is entitles to cast is  determined as follows:-



(a)  every elected member of the legislative  assembly of a State shall have as many votes as there are multiples of one  thousand in the quotient obtained by dividing the population of the state by the  total number of elected members of the Assembly;



(b)  If after taking the  said multiples of one thousand, the remainder is not less than five hundred,  then the vote of each member shall be further increased by one;



(c)  each  elected member of either House of Parliament shall have such number of votes as  may be obtained by dividing the total number of votes assigned to the members of  the State Legislation Assemblies by the total number of elected members of both  the House of Parliament fractions exceeding one-half being counted as one and  & other fractions being disregarded.



The election of the President  shall be held in accordance with the system of proportional representation by  means of the single transferable vote and the voting shall be by secret  ballot.