The 1997 Indian vice presidential election was held on 16 August 1997 to elect the vice president of India. Krishan Kant defeated Surjit Singh Barnala to become tenth vice president of India.BACKGROUND MATERIAL REGARDING FOURTEENTH ELECTION TO THE OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT, 2012, ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA At the time of the election, VP office was vacant since the incumbent, K. R. Narayanan, had already inaugurated as President following his victory in the presidential election.
Candidates
Results
|- align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"| !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Candidate !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Party !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Electoral Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes
|align="left"|Krishan Kant||align="left"|Janata Dal||441||61.76
|align="left"|Surjit Singh Barnala||align="left"|SAD||273||38.24 |- | colspan="5" style="background:#e9e9e9;"| |- ! colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"| Total ! style="text-align:right;"|714 ! style="text-align:right;"|100.00 |- | colspan="5" style="background:#e9e9e9;"|
|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Valid Votes||714||93.95 |- |colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Invalid Votes||46||6.05 |- |colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Turnout||760||96.20 |- |colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Abstentions||30||3.80 |- |colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Electors||790|| style="background:#e9e9e9;"|
See also 1997 Indian presidential election
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