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Pranab Mukherjee became the thirteenth president of the country on Sunday with a whopping 7,13,555 votes-or 69% of the total votes cast-against his rival P.A. Sangma’s 31% vote share, measuring 316163 votes. Mukherjee thanked people across the country for his victory and said that with emotions running high it felt like another general election. “I have received much more form the people than I have given them,” he said. Odisha, where Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had announced support to Sangma, yielded 115 votes for Sangma with a value of 17,135. Mukherjee got 26 votes with a value of 3874. Sangma got 70 votes in Punjab with a value of 8120 while Mukherjee got 44 votes with a value of 5104. Two votes were invalid. Rajasthan gave 113 votes to Mukherjee with a value of 14,577, while Sangma got 85 votes with a value of 10965. In Sikkim , Mukherjee got 28 votes, valuing 196 while Sangma managed one vote with a value of seven. Two votes were invalid. Mukherjee got overwhelming support in Nagaland of 58 legislators with a vote value of 522, while Sangma drew a blank. Two votes were declared invalid. In Mizoram, Mukherjee got 32 votes with a value of 256 while Sangma polled 7 votes with a value of 56. One vote was declared invalid. Sangma's home state of Meghalaya won him 23 votes with a value of 391, while Mukherjee polled 34 votes with a value of 578. Two votes were declared invalid. Manipur gave 58 votes to Mukherjee with a value of 1044. Sangma got only one vote with a value of 18. One vote was invalid. In Maharashtra , Mukherjee polled 225 votes, which have a value of 39375, while Sangma got 47 votes with a value of 8225. Two votes were invalid. Mukherjee got the support of BJP ally Shiv Sena in the state. The 230-member Madhya Pradesh assembly gave 74 votes to Mukherjee, while Sangma got 149. Four votes were invalid. Mukherjee clean swept with 124 votes polled, while one was invalid. Sangma drew a blank. CPI and RSP members abstained from voting which has a 140 member Assembly. Vote value for Mukherjee in Kerala stood at 18848. In Assam , Mukherjee snagged 110 of the 125 votes while Sangma got 13. In Arunachal Pradesh, the ex Congress stalwart got 54 votes while Sangma got 2. In Bihar too, the numbers were in Mukherjee's favour with 146 votes for him and 90 for Sangma. In Andhra Pradesh, Mukherjee snared 182 against Sangma’s 3. Sangma got majority of votes in BJP-ruled states of Chhattisgarh and Goa . In the 90-member Chhattisgarh assembly, 39 votes went to Mukherjee while Sangma got 50. One vote was invalid. In the 126-member Assam assembly, Mukherjee garnered 110 votes while Sangma got 13. Two votes are invalid while one did not vote. Mukherjee got 54 of the 59 votes polled in Arunachal Pradesh The vote value corresponded to 432 for Mukherjee and 16 for Sangma. Three votes were invalid. Mukherjee got majority of vote value among MPs in the president's election. The counting of votes began amidst tight security in Parliament House in the presence of authorized representatives of both Mukherjee and Sangma. The ballot boxes of votes cast in Parliament House were taken up first for counting, followed by those from the states.

Pranab gets 69% votes, Sangma manages 31%