43. (1) The President shall be elected by the members of an electoral college consisting of-

(a) the elected members of both Houses of the Federal Parliament, and

(b) the elected members of the Legislatures of the units.

(2) For the purpose of securing uniformity in the scale of representation of different units at such election, the votes of the elected members of the Federal Parliament and of the Legislature of each unit shall be weighted in the following manner, namely:

(a) the population of each unit shall be divided by the total number of elected members of the Legislature of the unit;

(b) each such member shall have as many votes as there are multiples of one thousand in the quotient so obtained,

(c) if after taking the multiples of one thousand, the remainder is not less than five hundred, then the vote of each member shall be further increased by one;

(d) the average of the number of votes assigned to the members of the Legislatures of the units under the foregoing provisions, that is to say, the total number of votes assigned to such members divided by the total number of such members, shall be the number of votes to be assigned to each member of either House of the Federal Parliament, fractions exceeding one-half being counted as one and other fractions being disregarded.

Or alternatively, –

(2) For the purpose of securing uniformity in the scale of representation of the units at such election, the number of the elected members which the Legislature of each unit should have on the scale of one member for every lakh of the population of the unit shall first be calculated disregarding any fraction in such calculation ; and if the total number of elected members exceeds the number of members so calculated, the excess shall be excluded by lot. and only the remaining elected members shall be deemed to be the members of the electoral college for the purpose of the election of the President under sub-section.

(3) The election of the President shall be held in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote and the voting at such election shall be by secret ballot.

Explanation: In this section, the expression “the Legislature of a unit” means, where the Legislature is bicameral, the Lower House of the Legislature and the expression “population” means the population as ascertained at the last preceding decennial census.