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'''Rajya Sabha elections''' were held in 1978, 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>

==Elections==
Elections were held in 1978 to elect members from various states.
''The list is incomplete.''
===Members elected===
The following members are elected in the elections held in 1978. They are members for the term 1978-84 and retire in year 1978, except in case of the resignation or death before the term.

State - Member - Party
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Rajya Sabha members for term 1978-1984
! State !! Member Name !! Party !! Remark
|-

|-
| Assam || [[Dinesh Goswami]] || INC
|-
| Assam || [[Robin Kakati]] || INC
|-
| Assam || [[Ajit Kumar Sharma]] || JAN
|-

|-
| Andhra Pradesh || [[B. Satyanarayan Reddy]] || JAN
|-
| Andhra Pradesh || Buddha Priya Maurya || INC
|-
| Andhra Pradesh || N.P. Chengalraya Naidu || INC
|-
| Andhra Pradesh || Ghouse Mohiuddin Sheikh || INC
|-
| Andhra Pradesh || Chadalavada Venkatrao || INC || dea 05/01/1981
|-

|-
| Arunachal Pradesh || [[T Anjiah]] || INC || Res 19/02/1981
|-
| Arunachal Pradesh || [[Ratan Tama]] || INC
|-

|-
| Bihar || [[Dayanand Sahay]] || INC
|-
| Bihar || [[Anand Prasad Sharma]] || INC || res 19/02/1983
|-
| Bihar || [[Yogendra Sharma]] || CPI
|-
| Bihar || [[J K P N Singh]] || INC
|-
| Bihar || Pranab Chatterjee || OTH || dea 02/06/1979
|-
| Bihar || [[Ram Lakhan Prasad Gupta]] || BJP
|-
| Bihar || Shiv Chandra Jha || BJP
|-

|-
| Delhi || [[Jagannathrao Joshi]] || JAN
|-

|-
| Gujarat || [[Ibrahim Kalaniya]] || INC ||
|-
| Gujarat || [[Piloo Modi]] || JAN || dea 29/01/1983
|-
| Gujarat || [[Ghanshyambhai Oza]] || JAN
|-
| Gujarat || [[Manubhai Patel]] || JD
|-

|-
| Haryana || [[Sujan Singh ]] || INC || res 31/12/1982
|-
| Haryana || Dr Sarup Singh || LD
|-

|-
| Himachal Pradesh || [[Mohinder Kaur]] || JAN
|-

|-
| Jammu & Kashmir|| Khawaja Mubarak Shah || JKNC || res 10/01/1980 LS
|-

|-
| Karnataka || [[Satchidananda]] || INC
|-
| Karnataka || [[Ramakrishna Hegde]] || JP || res 23/05/1983 CM, KA
|-
| Karnataka || [[Maqsood Ali Khan]] || INC
|-
| Karnataka || H R Basavaraj || INC || res 17/01/1980
|-

|-
| Madhya Pradesh || [[Manhar Bhagatram]] || INC
|-
| Madhya Pradesh || [[ Vijaya Raje Scindia]] || BJP
|-
| Madhya Pradesh || [[Baleshwar Dayal]] || JAN
|-
| Madhya Pradesh || Dr [[Bhai Mahavir]] || JAN
|-
| Madhya Pradesh || [[Ladli Mohan Nigam]] || JAN
|-
| Madhya Pradesh || Jamuna Devi || OTH
|-

|-
| Maharashtra || [[B.D. Khobragade]] || RPI
|-
| Maharashtra || [[N.K.P. Salve]] || INC
|-
| Maharashtra || [[A. G. Kulkarni]] || INC
|-
| Maharashtra || [[Sushila S Adivarekar]] || INC
|-
| Maharashtra || [[Sadasiv Bagaitkar]] || JAN || dea 05/12/1983
|-
| Maharashtra || Ganpat Hiralal Bhagat || IND
|-
| Maharashtra || Dr [[Rafiq Zakaria]] || INC
|-

|-
| Manipur & Tripura || [[Ng. Tompok Singh]] || INC ||
|-

|-
| Meghalaya || [[Alexander Warjri ]] || IND ||
|-

|-
| Mizoram || [[Lalsawia]] || IND
|-

|-
| Nominated || Dr [[M S Adiseshiah]] || NOM
|-
| Nominated || [[Fathema Ismail]] || NOM
|-
| Nominated || [[Pandurang D Jadhav]] || NOM
|-
| Nominated || [[Bhagwati Charan Varma]] || NOM || dea 05/10/1981
|-

|-
| Orissa || [[Bhabani Charan Pattanayak]] || INC ||
|-
| Orissa || [[Surendra Mohanty]] || INC
|-
| Orissa || Dhaneswar Majhi || INC
|-
| Orissa || Harekrushna Mallick || JD
|-

|-
| Punjab || Dr [[Rajinder Kaur]] || SAD
|-
| Punjab || [[Harkishan Singh Surjeet]] || CPM
|-

|-
| Rajasthan || [[Bhim Raj]] || INC
|-
| Rajasthan || [[Hari Shankar Bhabhra]] || BJP
|-
| Rajasthan || [[Radheshyam R Murarka]] || JAN
|-

|-
| Tamil Nadu || [[V. Gopalsamy]] || DMK
|-
| Tamil Nadu || [[V.V. Swaminathan]] || AIADMK || res 19/06/1980
|-
| Tamil Nadu || M Moses || INC
|-
| Tamil Nadu || Dr Sathiavani Muthu || INC
|-
| Tamil Nadu || [[Era Seziyan]] || JAN
|-
| Tamil Nadu || V. Venka || DMK
|-

|-
| Uttar Pradesh || [[Kamlapati Tripathi]] || INC || res 08/01/1980 LS
|-
| Uttar Pradesh || Narendra Singh || JAN
|-
| Uttar Pradesh || [[Jagdish Prasad Mathur]] || BJP
|-
| Uttar Pradesh || [[Kalraj Mishra]] || BJP
|-
| Uttar Pradesh || Dr [[M M S Siddhu]] || BJP
|-
| Uttar Pradesh || G C Bhattacharya || LD
|-
| Uttar Pradesh || Lakhan Singh || JAN
|-
| Uttar Pradesh || [[K C Pant]] || INC
|-
| Uttar Pradesh || Rameshwar Singh || LD
|-
| Uttar Pradesh || Abdul Rehman Sheikh || JAN
|-
| Uttar Pradesh || Surendra Mohan || JAN
|-

|-
| West Bengal || [[Amarprosad Chakraborty ]] || FB
|-
| West Bengal || [[Kanak Mukherjee]] || CPM
|-
| West Bengal || Prof [[Saurin Bhattacharjee]] || RSP
|-
| West Bengal || [[Ananda Pathak]] || CPM || 09/01/1980
|-
| West Bengal || Syed Shahedullah || CPM
|-

|-
|}

==Bye-elections==
The following bye elections were held in the year 1978.

State - Member - Party

# Uttar Pradesh - Shiva Nandan Singh - JAN ( ele 20/03/1978 term till 1980 )
# Madhya Pradesh - B Jamuna Devi - OTH ( ele 10/04/1978 term till 1980 )
# Maharashtra - [[Motiram Lahane]] - JAN ( ele 14/12/1978 term till 1980 )

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Rajya Sabha}}

[[Category:1978 elections in India]]
[[Category:Rajya Sabha elections in India|1978]]

1978 Rajya Sabha elections - Revision history

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