Narayanan now holds the record in a Presidential poll

The following chart shows the votes polled by winners and runners up in Presidential elections:

Year	Winners	Votes	%		Runner-up	Votes	%
1952	Dr Rajendra Prasad	5,07,400	83.8		K T Shah	9,2827	15.3
1957	Dr Rajendra Prasad	4,59,698	99.3		N N Dass	2,000	0.3
1962	Dr S Radhakrishnan	5,83,067	98.3		C H Ram	6,341	1.1
1967	Dr Zakir Hussain	4,71,244	56.2		K Subba Rao	363,971	43.4
1969	V V Giri	4,20,077	50.2		Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy	405,427	48.5
1974	Fakruddin Ali Ahmed	7,65,587	80.2		Tridip Chaudhury	189,186	19.8
1977	Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy	Elected unopposed
1982	Giani Zail Singh	7,54,113	72.7		H R Khanna	282,685	27.3
1987	R Venkataraman	7,40,148	72.3		V R Krishna Iyer	281,550	27.5
1992	Shankar Dayal Sharma	6,75,864	64.4		G G Swell	346,485	33.8
1992	K R Narayanan	956,290	94.97		T N Seshan	50,631	5.03

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