Over 98 percent Members of Parliament (MPs) cast their votes to elect India’s new V-P and counting of polls had started at 6 pm. Twelve out of 781 total MPs abstained from voting. Read on to know more.

Radhakrishnan, the current Governor of Maharashtra, emerged victorious with a big margin and will take over the role of V-P after his predecessor Jagdeep Dhankhar’s resignation in July. The INDIA bloc had fielded retired Supreme Court judge B Sudershan Reddy in the contest against Radhakrishnan.