2019 Rajya Sabha elections

2019 Rajya Sabha elections were held throughout 2019, to fill the vacancies in the Rajya Sabha, the Indian Parliament's upper chamber. The elections were held to elect 2 members from Assam as well as 6 members from Tamil Nadu. By-elections were held for 14 seats among various states.

2019 Rajya Sabha elections

← 2018 31 May – 5 December 2019 2020 →
22 seats in the Rajya Sabha Including 14 casual vacancies
First party Second party   Leader Thawar Chand Gehlot Ghulam Nabi Azad Party BJP INC Alliance NDA UPA Leader since 11 June 2019 8 June 2014 Leader's seat Madhya Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir Seats before 73 50 Seats after 83 46 Seat change 10 4

The elections resulted in the ruling BJP maintaining and increasing their majority with a net gain of 6 seats.

Results

Elections

Assam

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Manmohan Singh		Indian National Congress	Kamakhya Prasad Tasa		Bharatiya Janata Party	[1]
2	Santiuse Kujur		Indian National Congress	Birendra Prasad Baishya		Asom Gana Parishad

Tamil Nadu

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	R. Lakshmanan		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	A. Mohammedjan		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	[2]
2	V. Maitreyan		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	N. Chandrasekaran		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
3	K. R. Arjunan		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	Anbumani Ramadoss		Pattali Makkal Katchi
4	T. Rathinavel		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	M. Shanmugam		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
5	Kanimozhi		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	P. Wilson		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
6	D. Raja		Communist Party of India	Vaiko		Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

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.

Bihar

• On 23 May 2019 Ravi Shankar Prasad Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Bihar due to his election as the member of Lok Sabha From Patna Sahib
• On 8 September 2019 Ram Jethmalani Had Died

S.No	Former MP	Party		Date of Vacancy	Elected MP	Party		Date of appointment	Date of retirement
1	Ravi Shankar Prasad		Bharatiya Janata Party	23 May 2019	Ram Vilas Paswan		Lok Janshakti Party	28 June 2019	2 April 2024
2	Ram Jethmalani		Rashtriya Janata Dal	8 September 2019	Satish Chandra Dubey		Bharatiya Janata Party	9 October 2019	7 July 2022

Gujarat

• On 23 May 2019 Amit Shah Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat due to his election as the member of Lok Sabha From Gandhinagar
• On 24 May 2019 Smriti Irani Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat due to her election as the member of Lok Sabha From Amethi

S.No	Former MP	Party		Date of Vacancy	Elected MP	Party		Date of appointment	Date of retirement
1	Amit Shah		Bharatiya Janata Party	23 May 2019	S. Jaishankar		Bharatiya Janata Party	5 July 2019	18 August 2023
2	Smriti Irani		Bharatiya Janata Party	24 May 2019	Jugalji Thakore		Bharatiya Janata Party	5 July 2019	18 August 2023

Odisha

• On 24 May 2019 Achyuta Samanta Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Odisha due to his election as the member of Lok Sabha From Kandhamal
• On 6 June 2019 Soumya Ranjan Patnaik Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Odisha due to his election as the member of Odisha Legislative Assembly From Khandapada
• On 6 June 2019 Pratap Keshari Deb Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Odisha due to his election as the member of Odisha Legislative Assembly From Aul

S.No	Former MP	Party		Date of Vacancy	Elected MP	Party		Date of appointment	Date of retirement
1	Achyuta Samanta		Biju Janata Dal	24 May 2019	Ashwini Vaishnaw		Bharatiya Janata Party	28 June 2019	3 April 2024
2	Soumya Ranjan Patnaik		Biju Janata Dal	6 June 2019	Amar Patnaik		Biju Janata Dal	28 June 2019	3 April 2024
3	Pratap Keshari Deb		Biju Janata Dal	9 June 2019	Sasmit Patra		Biju Janata Dal	28 June 2019	1 July 2022

Rajasthan

• 24 June 2019 Madan Lal Saini Had Died

S.No	Former MP	Party		Date of Vacancy	Elected MP	Party		Date of appointment	Date of retirement
1	Madan Lal Saini		Bharatiya Janata Party	24 June 2019	Manmohan Singh		Indian National Congress	26 August 2019	3 April 2024

Uttar Pradesh

• On 15 July 2019 Neeraj Sekhar Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh And Membership Of Samajwadi Party And Joined Bharatiya Janata Party
• On 2 August 2019 Surendra Singh Nagar Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh And Membership Of Samajwadi Party And Joined Bharatiya Janata Party
• On 5 August 2019 Sanjay Seth Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh And Membership Of Samajwadi Party And Joined Bharatiya Janata Party
• On 24 August 2019 Arun Jaitley Had Died
• On 24 October 2019 Tazeen Fatma Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh due to her election as the member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly On 21 October by-poll From Rampur

S.No	Former MP	Party		Date of Vacancy	Elected MP	Party		Date of appointment	Date of retirement
1	Neeraj Shekhar		Samajwadi Party	15 July 2019	Neeraj Shekhar		Bharatiya Janata Party	26 August 2019	25 November 2020
2	Surendra Singh Nagar		Samajwadi Party	2 August 2019	Surendra Singh Nagar		Bharatiya Janata Party	16 September 2019	4 July 2022
3	Sanjay Seth		Samajwadi Party	5 August 2019	Sanjay Seth		Bharatiya Janata Party	16 September 2019	4 July 2022
4	Arun Jaitley		Bharatiya Janata Party	24 August 2019	Sudhanshu Trivedi		Bharatiya Janata Party	9 October 2019	2 April 2024
5	Tazeen Fatma		Samajwadi Party	24 October 2019	Arun Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party	5 December 2019	25 November 2020

Karnataka

• On 16 October 2019 K. C. Ramamurthy Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka And Membership of Indian National Congress And Joined Bharatiya Janata Party

S.No	Former MP	Party		Date of Vacancy	Elected MP	Party		Date of appointment	Date of retirement
1	K. C. Ramamurthy		Indian National Congress	16 October 2019	K. C. Ramamurthy		Bharatiya Janata Party	5 December 2019	30 June 2022

See also

• 2019 Indian general election

Notes