Who elects the Vice-President of India?

The correct answer is Members of both Houses of Parliament (elected as well as nominated).

• The Vice-President, like the president, is elected not directly by the people but indirectly.
• He is elected by the members of an electoral college consisting of the members of both houses of Parliament. Thus, this electoral college is different from the electoral college for the election of the President in the following two respects:
• It consists of both elected and nominated members of the Parliament (in the case of the President, only elected members).
• It does not include the members of the state legislative assemblies (in the case of the President, the elected members of the state legislative assemblies are included).
• Vice-President’s election, like that of the President’s election, is held in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote, and the voting is by secret ballot.