📜 Official Text

(1) As far as practicable, there shall be uniformity in the scale of representation of the different States at the election of the President. (2) The number of votes which each elected member of Parliament and of the Legislative Assembly of each State is entitled to cast is determined by a formula based on the State's population divided by its number of elected Assembly members, designed to give parity between the States as a whole and the Union. (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.