2020 Rajya Sabha elections

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]

2020 Rajya Sabha elections

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79 seats in the Rajya Sabha[lower-alpha 1]

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.

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

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