Pranab Mukherjee is India's next President. The 76-year old UPA nominee was declared elected with a thumping majority at the end of counting of votes at the Parliament House on Sunday. Mr Mukherjee defeated the 64-year-old former Lok Sabha Speaker, P A Sangma. Announcing the results after completion of counting of votes, Dr V K Agnihotri, Rajya Sabha Secretary General, who is also the Returning Officer for the Presidential Elections, said Mr Mukherjee has polled the vote value of over Seven lakh 13 thousand as against the votes polled worth over 3 lakh 15 thousand by Mr Sangma in the election to the top Constitutional post.

In Kerala it was a clean sweep for Pranab Mukherjee. He won all the 124 votes polled while one was invalid. There has been apparent cross-voting in Karnataka. Pranab Mukherjee got the majority votes in the 224 member Assembly with 117 MLAs voting for him. Sangma could get only 103 votes while three votes were invalid. One MLA did not vote.