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2020 Rajya Sabha elections
India
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79 seats in the Rajya Sabha[a]
Party Leader Seats +/–
BJP Thawar Chand Gehlot 32 +10
INC Ghulam Nabi Azad 9 −8
AITC
 Derek O' Brien 4 0
BJD Sasmit Patra 4 +1
YSRCP V. Vijayasai Reddy 4 +4
DMK
Tiruchi Siva
 3 +1
AIADMK A. Navaneethakrishnan 2 −1
JD(U) Ram Nath Thakur 2 −1
NCP Sharad Pawar 2 0
RJD Prem Chand Gupta 2 +2
TRS
 K. Keshava Rao 2 +2
BSP Satish Mishra 1 −1
BPF Biswajit Daimary 1 0
CPI(M) Elamaram Kareem 1 +1
JD(S) D. Kupendra Reddy 1 0
JMM - 1 +1
LJD - 1 +1
MNF - 1 +1
NPP - 1 +1
RPI(A) Ramdas Athawale 1 +1
SP Ram Gopal Yadav 1 −3
SHS Sanjay Raut 1 0
TMC(M) - 1 +1
Independent - 1 −2
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

2020 Rajya Sabha elections were the set of indirect elections by the members of State legislatures of India, to elect new members to fill vacancies in the Rajya Sabha – the upper house of the Parliament of India. The elections are held annually and throughout the year on an ad hoc basis. The elections in 2020 are for a total of 73 seats of which 55 of them were to be elected by March 26.[1] The remaining were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Election Commission of India later announced all the elections for the remaining 24 Rajya Sabha seats were to be held on 19 June 2020.[2]

On 12 June 2020, Election commission of India declared unopposed victory over 4 seats of Karnataka and 1 seat of Arunachal Pradesh. Leaving behind 19 seats to go for elections on 19 June 2020.[3][4]

On 2 November 2020, Election commission of India declared unopposed victory over 10 seats of Uttar Pradesh and 1 seat of Uttarakhand.[5][6]

Results

April Election

Maharashtra

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[7] Party
1 Sharad Pawar NCP 02-Apr-2020 Sharad Pawar NCP
2 Majeed Memon 02-Apr-2020 Fouzia Khan
3 Husain Dalwai INC 02-Apr-2020
Rajiv Satav
 INC
4 Rajkumar Dhoot SS 02-Apr-2020 Priyanka Chaturvedi SS
5 Ramdas Athawale
RPI(A)
 02-Apr-2020 Ramdas Athawale
RPI(A)
6 Amar Shankar Sable BJP 02-Apr-2020 Udayanraje Bhosale BJP
7 Sanjay Kakade Ind 02-Apr-2020 Bhagwat Karad

Odisha

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[8] Party
1 Ranjib Biswal INC 02-Apr-2020 Subhash Chandra Singh BJD
2 Narendra Kumar Swain BJD 02-Apr-2020 Munna Khan BJD
3 Sarojini Hembram BJD 02-Apr-2020 Sujeet Kumar BJD
4 Vacant
(Anubhav Mohanty) 		02-Apr-2020
Mamata Mahanta
 BJD

Tamil Nadu

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[9] Party
1 Sasikala Pushpa AIADMK 02-Apr-2020 M. Thambidurai AIADMK
2 Vijila Sathyananth 02-Apr-2020 K. P. Munusamy
3 S. Muthukaruppan 02-Apr-2020 G. K. Vasan TMC
4
K. Selvaraj
 02-Apr-2020 Anthiyur P. Selvaraj DMK
5
Tiruchi Siva
 DMK 02-Apr-2020
Tiruchi Siva
6 T. K. Rangarajan CPM 02-Apr-2020 N. R. Elango

West Bengal

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[10] Party
1 Ahmed Hassan Imran
TMC
 02-Apr-2020 Dinesh Trivedi
TMC
2 Kanwar Deep Singh
TMC
 02-Apr-2020 Arpita Ghosh
TMC
3 Jogen Chowdhury
TMC
 02-Apr-2020 Mausam Noor
TMC
4 Manish Gupta
TMC
 02-Apr-2020 Subrata Bakshi
TMC
5 Ritabrata Banerjee Ind 02-Apr-2020 Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya CPM

Andhra Pradesh

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[11] Party
1 T. Subbarami Reddy INC 09-Apr-2020 Alla Ayodhya Rami Reddy YSRCP
2 Mohd. Ali Khan 09-Apr-2020 Pilli Subhash Chandra Bose
3 Thota Seetharama Lakshmi TDP 09-Apr-2020 Mopidevi Venkataramana
4 K. Keshava Rao
TRS
 09-Apr-2020 Parimal Nathwani

Assam

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[12] Party
1 Biswajit Daimary BPF 09-Apr-2020 Biswajit Daimary BPF
2

Vacant
(

Bhubaneshwar Kalita
)

09-Apr-2020
Bhubaneshwar Kalita
 BJP
3 Vacant
(Sanjaya Sinh) 		09-Apr-2020 Ajit Kumar Bhuyan Ind

Bihar

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[12] Party
1 Harivansh Narayan Singh JDU 09-Apr-2020 Harivansh Narayan Singh JDU
2 Ram Nath Thakur 09-Apr-2020 Ram Nath Thakur
3 Kahkashan Perween 09-Apr-2020 Prem Chand Gupta RJD
4 Ravindra Kishore Sinha BJP 09-Apr-2020 Amarendra Dhari Singh
5 C. P. Thakur 09-Apr-2020 Vivek Thakur BJP

Chhattisgarh

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[13] Party
1 Ranvijay Singh Judev BJP 09-Apr-2020 K. T. S. Tulsi INC
2 Motilal Vora INC 09-Apr-2020 Phulo Devi Netam INC

Gujarat

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[14] Party
1 Chunibhai K Gohel BJP 09-Apr-2020
Abhay Bhardwaj
 BJP
2 Shambhuprasad Tundiya BJP 09-Apr-2020 Ramilaben Bara BJP
3 Lal Sinh Vadodia BJP 09-Apr-2020 Narhari Amin BJP
4 Madhusudan Mistry INC 09-Apr-2020 Shaktisinh Gohil INC

Haryana

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[15] Party
1 Selja Kumari INC 09-Apr-2020 Deepender Singh Hooda INC
2 Vacant
(Ram Kumar Kashyap) 		09-Apr-2020
Ram Chander Jangra
 BJP

Himachal Pradesh

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[16] Party
1 Viplove Thakur INC 09-Apr-2020 Indu Goswami BJP

Jharkhand

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[17] Party
1 Prem Chand Gupta RJD 09-Apr-2020 Shibu Soren JMM
2 Parimal Nathwani Ind 09-Apr-2020
Deepak Prakash
 BJP

Madhya Pradesh

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[18] Party
1 Satyanarayan Jatiya BJP 09-Apr-2020 Jyotiraditya Scindia BJP
2 Prabhat Jha BJP 09-Apr-2020 Sumer Singh Solanki BJP
3 Digvijaya Singh INC 09-Apr-2020 Digvijaya Singh INC

Manipur

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[19] Party
1 Bhabananda Singh BJP 09-Apr-2020 Leishemba Sanajaoba BJP

Rajasthan

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[20] Party
1 Narayan Lal Panchariya BJP 09-Apr-2020 Rajendra Gehlot BJP
2 Ramnarayan Dudi 09-Apr-2020 K. C. Venugopal INC
3 Vijay Goel 09-Apr-2020 Neeraj Dangi

Telangana

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[21] Party
1 Garikapati Mohan Rao BJP 09-Apr-2020 K. Keshava Rao BRS
2 K. V. P. Ramachandra Rao INC 09-Apr-2020 K. R. Suresh Reddy BRS

Meghalaya

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party
1 Wansuk Syiem INC 12-Apr-2020 Wanweiroy Kharlukhi NPP

June Election

Arunachal Pradesh

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[22] Party
1 Mukut Mithi INC 23-Jun-2020 Nabam Rebia BJP

Karnataka

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[23] Party
1 Prabhakar Kore BJP 25-Jun-2020 Ashok Gasti BJP
2 B. K. Hariprasad INC 25-Jun-2020
Eranna Kadadi
3 Rajeev Gowda 25-Jun-2020 Mallikarjun Kharge INC
4 D. Kupendra Reddy JDS 25-Jun-2020 H. D. Deve Gowda JDS

Mizoram

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[24] Party
1 Ronald Sapa Tlau INC 18-Jul-2020 K. Vanlalvena MNF

November Election

Uttar Pradesh

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party
1 Ram Gopal Yadav SP 25-Nov-2020 Ram Gopal Yadav SP
2 Ravi Prakash Verma 25-Nov-2020 Seema Dwivedi BJP
3 Chandrapal Singh Yadav 25-Nov-2020 Hardwar Dubey
4 Javed Ali Khan 25-Nov-2020
Brij Lal
5 Hardeep Singh Puri BJP 25-Nov-2020 Hardeep Singh Puri
6
Arun Singh
 25-Nov-2020
Arun Singh
7 Neeraj Shekhar 25-Nov-2020 Neeraj Shekhar
8 P. L. Punia INC 25-Nov-2020 Geeta Shakya
9 Veer Singh BSP 25-Nov-2020 B. L. Verma
10 Rajaram 25-Nov-2020 Ramji Gautam BSP

Uttarakhand

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party
1 Raj Babbar INC 25-Nov-2020 Naresh Bansal BJP

By-elections

Aside from automatic elections, unforeseen vacancies caused by members' resignation, death or disqualification, are unless a few months before the expected natural expiry of the term of tenure, filled via by-elections, which for the Rajya Sabha often take some months to organise.

Haryana

  • On 20 January 2020 Birender Singh Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Haryana[25]
# Former MP Party Date of Vacancy Elected MP Party Term start Term end
1 Birender Singh BJP 20-Jan-2020 Dushyant Kumar Gautam BJP 16-Mar-2020 01-Aug-2022

Bihar

  • On 8 October 2020, Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan died.[26]
# Former MP Party Date of Vacancy Elected MP Party Term start Term end
1 Ram Vilas Paswan LJP 08-Oct-2020 Sushil Kumar Modi BJP 07-Dec-2020 02-Apr-2024

Uttar Pradesh

  • On 27 March 2020 Beni Prasad Verma died.
  • On 1 August 2020 Amar Singh died.
# Former MP Party Date of Vacancy Elected MP Party Term start Term end
1 Beni Prasad Verma SP 27-Mar-2020 Jai Prakash Nishad BJP 17-Aug-2020 04-Jul-2022
2 Amar Singh
Ind
 01-Aug-2020 Syed Zafar Islam BJP 11-Sep-2020 04-Jul-2022

Kerala

  • On 28 May 2020 Veerendra Kumar died.
# Former MP Party Date of Vacancy Elected MP Party Term start Term end
1 M. P. Veerendra Kumar
Ind
 28-May-2020 M. V. Shreyams Kumar LJD 24-Aug-2020 02-Apr-2022

Karnataka

  • On 17 September 2020 Ashok Gasti died.
# Former MP Party Date of Vacancy Elected MP Party Term start Term end
1 Ashok Gasti BJP 17-Sep-2020 K. Narayan BJP 24-Nov-2020 25-Jun-2026

Nominations

Note:

  • Listed According Date Of Retirement

Nominated

# Previous MP Party Term end Nominated MP Party Term start Reference
1 K. T. S. Tulsi
Nominated
 25-Feb-2020 Ranjan Gogoi
Nominated
 16-Mar-2020 [27]

Notes

  1. ^ Including 6 casual vacancies

References

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