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'''Rajya Sabha elections''' were held in 1954, to elect members of the [[Rajya Sabha]], [[Indian Parliament]]'s [[upper chamber]]. <ref name="alist">{{cite web|title=Alphabetical List Of Former Members Of Rajya Sabha Since 1952|url=http://164.100.47.5/Newmembers/alphabeticallist_all_terms.aspx|publisher=Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi|accessdate=13 September 2017|archive-date=14 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190214083532/http://164.100.47.5/Newmembers/alphabeticallist_all_terms.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref>

{{Infobox election
|election_name = 1954 Rajya Sabha elections
|country = India
|type = parliamentary
|previous_election = 1953 Rajya Sabha elections
|previous_year = 1953
|election_date =
|next_election = 1955 Rajya Sabha elections
|next_year = 1955
|seats_for_election = 80 (of 225 seats) in the [[Rajya Sabha]]
|majority_seats = 113 seats
|image1 = {{CSS image crop|Image =Jnehru.jpg|bSize = 130|cWidth = 113|cHeight = 150|oTop = 0|oLeft = 0}}
|leader1 = [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]
|party1 = [[Indian National Congress|INC]]
|seats1 = '''173'''
|seat_change1 = '''{{increase}} 4'''
|percentage1 = '''76.89%'''
|swing1 = '''{{increase}} 2.77%'''
|image2 = <div style="width:115px;"><span style="line-height:150px; vertical-align:center; text-align:center; color:{{party color|Communist Party of India}}; font-size:30px;"> '''CPI'''</span></div>
|leader2 =
|party2 = [[Communist Party of India|CPI]]
|seats2 = 10
|seat_change2 = {{increase}} 1
|percentage2 = 4.44%
|swing2 = {{increase}} 0.49%
}}
==Elections==
Elections were held in 1954 to elect members from various states.
''The list is incomplete.''
===Members elected===
The following members are elected in the elections held in 1954. They are members for the term 1952-54 by luck as decided in 1952 and retire in year 1954, except in case of the resignation or death before the term.

State - Member - Party

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Rajya Sabha members for term 1954-1960
! State !! Member Name !! Party !! Remark
|-
|-
| Andhra || [[Makineni Basavapunnaiah]] || CPI || R
|-
| Andhra || Galib Shaik || INC || ( res. 12/07/1958 )
|-
| Andhra || [[Akbar Ali Khan (politician)|Akbar Ali Khan]] || INC ||
|-
| Andhra || [[A Satyanarayana Raju]] || INC ||
|-
| Andhra || J V K VallabhRao || CPI ||
|-
| [[Ajmer State|Ajmer]] and [[Coorg State|Coorg]]|| K C Karumbaya || INC || ( term till 1956 )
|-

|-
| Assam || [[ Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed]] || INC || Res. 25/03/1957
|-
| Assam || [[ Bedavati Buragohain ]] || INC
|-

|-
| Bihar || Bodra Theodore || JMM
|-
| Bihar || [[Ramdhari Singh Dinkar]] || INC
|-
| Bihar || [[Kailash Bihari Lall]] || INC || Dea. 19/03/1960
|-
| Bihar || [[Mahesh Saran]] || INC
|-
| Bihar || [[Lakshmi N. Menon]] || INC
|-
| Bihar || Dr [[Purna Chanda Mitra]] || INC || Dea. 23/08/1959
|-
| Bihar || [[Rajendra Pratap Sinha]] || IND
|-

|-
| Bombay || [[Abid Ali Jaferbhai]] || INC || ( term till 1958 )
|-
| Bombay || [[Violet Alva]] || INC
|-
| Bombay || R V Dangre || INC
|-
| Bombay || [[N B Deshmukh]] || OTH
|-
| Bombay || [[Bhalchandra M Gupte]] || INC
|-
| Bombay || [[Shreyans Prasad Jain]] || INC || ( term till 1958 )
|-
| Bombay || [[Premji T Leuva]] || INC
|-
| Bombay || [[Devkinandan Narayan]] || INC
|-
| Bombay || [[Chandulal P Parikh]] || INC || ( term till 1958 )
|-

|-
| Hyderabad || V Prasad Rao || CPI
|-
| Jammu & Kashmir || Trilochan Dutt || INC
|-
| Kutch || [[Lakhamshi Lavji]] || INC
|-
| Madhya Bharat || Dr [[Raghubir Sinh]] || INC
|-
| Madhya Bharat ||[[Gopikrishna Vijaivargiya]] || INC
|-

|-
| Madhya Pradesh || [[R P Dube]] || INC
|-
| Madhya Pradesh || [[Kazi Syed Karimuddin]] || INC || ( term till 1958 )
|-
| Madhya Pradesh || [[Ratanlal Kishorilal Malviya|Ratanlal K. Malviya]] || INC
|-
| Madhya Pradesh || Thakur [[Bhannu Pratap Singh]] || INC
|-

| Madras || N Gopalswami Ayyangar || INC
|-
|-
| Madras || [[K S Hegde]] || INC || res. 21/08/1957
|-
| Madras || [[E. K. Imbichi Bava]] || CPI
|-
| Madras || [[T V Kamalaswamy]] || INC
|-
| Madras || [[ K Madhav Menon]] || INC
|-
| Madras || [[P S Rajgopal Naidu]] || INC
|-
| Madras || Parvathi Krishnan || OTH || 12/03/1957
|-
| Madras || [[T Bhaskar Rao]] || INC ||
|-
| Madras || Dr [[P Subbarayan]] || INC || 04/03/1957
|-
| Manipur & Tripura || [[Ng. Tompok Singh]] || INC ||
|-
| Mysore || [[ H C Dasappa]]|| INC || Res. 25/03/1957 2LS
|-
| Mysore || [[K Chengalaraya Reddy]] || INC || 18/03/1957

|-
| Mysore || Raghvendra Rao || INC
|-

| Nominated || Prof [[A R Wadia]] || NOM
|-
| Nominated || Prof [[Satyendra Nath Bose]] || NOM || Res.02/07/1959
|-
| Nominated || [[Prithviraj Kapoor]] || NOM
|-
| Nominated || [[ Moturi Satyanarayana]] || NOM.

|-
| Orissa || [[Prafulla Chandra Banj Deo]] || OTH || Death 05/03/1959
|-
| Orissa || [[Bishwanath Das]] || INC
|-
| Orissa || S Panigrahi || INC

|-
| Punjab || Dr [[Anup Singh (politician)|Anup Singh]] || INC
|-
| Punjab || Jathedar [[Udham Singh Nagoke]] || INC
|-
| Punjab || M H S [[Nihal Singh]] || INC
|-
| P E P S U || Sardar [[Raghbir Singh Panjhazari|Raghbir Singh]] || INC
|-

| Rajasthan || [[Barkatullah Khan]] || INC || Res. 25/03/1957
|-
| Rajasthan || Adiyendra || INC
|-
| Rajasthan || [[Vijay Singh]] || INC
|-

|-
| Saurashtra || Dr [[D H Variava]] || INC
|-
| Travancore & Cochin || [[K Udayabhau Bharti]] || INC || term till 1958
|-
| Travancore & Cochin || N C Sekhar || INC
|-

| Uttar Pradesh || [[Amarnath Agarwal]] || INC

|-
| Uttar Pradesh || [[Amolakh Chand]] || INC

|-
| Uttar Pradesh || [[Ram Chandra Gupta]] || INC
|-
| Uttar Pradesh || [[Ahmed Syed Khan]] || INC
|-
| Uttar Pradesh || [[M M Faruqi]] || INC
|-
| Uttar Pradesh || [[Narendra Deva]] || OTH || Death 20/02/1956
|-
| Uttar Pradesh || [[Brij Bihari Sharma]] || INC
|-
| Uttar Pradesh || [[Lal Bahadur Shastri]] || INC || Res 13/03/1957 -2LS
|-
| Uttar Pradesh || [[Bapu Gopinath Singh]] || INC
|-
| Uttar Pradesh || [[Sumat Prasad]] || INC || 12/03/1957 - 2LS
|-

| Vindyachal Pradesh || Krishna Kumari || INC
|-
| Vindyachal Pradesh || [[Awadhesh Pratap Singh]] || INC

|-
| West Bengal || [[Charu Chandra Biswas]] || INC
|-
| West Bengal || [[Rajpat Singh Doogar]] || INC
|-
| West Bengal || [[Nalinaskha Dutt]] || INC
|-
| West Bengal || Abdul Razzak Khan || CPI
|-
| West Bengal || [[Suresh Chandra Majumdar]] || INC || Death 12/08/1954
|-

|}

==Bye-elections==
The following bye elections were held in the year 1954.

# Andhra - B V Gurumoorthy - INC ( elec 15/02/1954 term till 1956 )
# Bombay - Narayan K Daga - INC ( elec 23/04/1954 term till 1958 )
# West Bengal - [[Mriganka M Sur]] - INC ( elec 13/09/1954 term till 1960 )

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Rajya Sabha}}

[[Category:1954 elections in India]]
[[Category:Rajya Sabha elections in India|1954]]

1954 Rajya Sabha elections - Revision history

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