The value of one MP vote is 708 votes.Accordingly, the NDA nominee will get 3,70,992 MPs votes. Some central ministers are accompanying him too.Despite numbers on its side, the BJP is going into the battle aggressively. It also has a lead in almost all states barring West Bengal, Karnataka, Kerala, Punjab, Tripura and Himachal Pradesh.The total strength of the collegium which votes to elect the president comprises all elected MPs and members of legislative assemblies of all states and UTs of Delhi and Puducherry.The total vote value comes to 10,98,903. The vote weightage of an MLA depends on the population of the state he or she represents. UPA's candidate Pratibha Patil had in the 2007 election secured 6,38,116 votes, polling 65.82 of the total electoral college vote.Both Mukherjee and Patil were Congress nominees and defeated joint opposition candidates P A Sangma and Bhairon Singh Shekhawat respectively.

Source: Times of India June 25, 2017 09:57 UTC