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Vice President Election 2025 LIVE Updates: Counting of votes in the vice presidential election began at 6 PM on Tuesday (September 9) after over 98% of MPs exercised their franchise in the contest between NDA nominee C P Radhakrishnan and joint opposition candidate B Sudershan Reddy.
The counting was underway in the new Parliament building under the supervision of Returning Officer P C Mody, Rajya Sabha Secretary General. The results will be announced late evening. The polling concluded at 5 PM with over 98 per cent of votes being cast in the election, official sources said, adding 12 MPs out of 781 did not vote.
Brisk voting was witnessed earlier in the day, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi being the first to cast his ballot. Modi, accompanied by Union Ministers Kiren Rijiju, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Jitendra Singh and L Murugan, cast his vote in the polling booth in Room No. 101 Vasudha in the Parliament building. Members of both Houses of Parliament are eligible to cast their votes in the Parliament House. MPs in large numbers queued up in the new Parliament building since morning.
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