The Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections Act `1952
An Act to regulate certain matters relating to or connected with elections to the offices of President and Vice-President of India.
List of Chapters & Sections
PRELIMINARY
CONDUCT OF PRESIDENTIAL AND VICE-PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
- 3Returning Officer and his assistants
- 4Appointment of dates for nominations, etc
- 5Public notice of election
- 5ANomination of candidates
- 5BPresentation of nomination papers and requirements for a valid nomination
- 5CDeposit
- 5DNotice of nominations and the time and place for their scrutiny
- 5EScrutiny of nominations
- 6Withdrawal of candidature
- 7Death of candidate before poll
- 8Procedure in contested and uncontested elections
- 9Manner of voting at elections
- 10Counting of votes
- 11Declaration of results
- 12Report of the result
DISPUTES REGARDING ELECTIONS
- 13Definitions
- 14Authority to try election petitions
- 14APresentation of petition
- 15Form of petitions, etc., and procedure
- 16Relief that may be claimed by the petitioner
- 17Orders of the Supreme Court
- 18Grounds for declaring the election of a returned candidate to be void
- 19Grounds for which a candidate other than the returned candidate may he declared to have been elected
- 20Transmission of orders to the Central Government and its publicatio
MISCELLANEOUS