It is advantage Pranab Mukherjee, the UPA’s candidate, as lawmakers yesterday voted to elect the country’s 13th president, recording a massive turnout that could be anywhere close to 95 per cent.

Mukherjee was in a direct contest with opposition-backed PA Sangma in the elections for which polling began at 10 am and ended at 5 pm in Parliament House and in assembly complexes in the states and union territories with legislatures.