India, the world’s largest democracy, will elect its 15th president on July 21. 

Droupadi Murmu, an Adivasi woman previously associated with the BJP who has served as the governor of Jharkhand, and Yashwant Sinha, a career bureaucrat previously associated with the BJP and later the Trinamool Congress, are the two candidates.

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Here’s how the votes will be counted- 

1) Returning officers will sort and audit the votes. Members of the Legislative Assembly used pink pens, while Members of Parliament used green pens to mark their order of preference for the candidates on ballot papers.

2) One tray will be for Droupadi Murmu, and the other will be for Yashwant Sinha. The MPs’ ballots will be sorted following the MLAs’ ballots.

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3) Murmu’s papers will be put in her tray, and Mr. Sinha’s papers will be put in his.

4) Each MP’s vote value is set at 700, whereas an MLA’s vote value is determined by the population of their state. After the sorting is finished, the voting will be counted.

5) Outside of Parliament House Room 73, there is a media booth. As the counting progresses, trends will be communicated there.

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6) The candidate who receives more votes than a predetermined threshold is declared the winner of the presidential election, not the candidate with the most votes. By adding the votes cast for each candidate, dividing the total by 2, and adding “1,” the quota is calculated. The winner is the candidate who receives more votes than this number.

The president’s primary responsibility is to preserve, protect, and defend India’s constitution and law.

The new Indian President will be sworn in on July 25.