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{{Infobox election
|election_name = 2011 Rajya Sabha elections
|country = India
|type = parliamentary
|previous_election = 2010 Rajya Sabha elections
|previous_year = 2010
|election_date =
|next_election = 2012 Rajya Sabha elections
|next_year = 2012
|seats_for_election = (of 228 seats) to the [[Rajya Sabha]]
|image2 = The official photograph of the Defence Minister, Shri Arun Jaitley (cropped).jpg
|leader2 = [[Arun Jaitley]]
|party2 = [[BJP]]
|image1 = IBSA-leaders Manmohan Singh.jpg
|leader1 = [[Manmohan Singh]]
|party1 = [[Indian National Congress|INC]]
}}
'''Rajya Sabha elections''' were held on various dates in 2011, to elect members of the [[Rajya Sabha]], [[Indian Parliament]]'s [[upper chamber]]. The elections were held on 22 July to elect respectively 1 member from Goa, 3 members from Gujarat and 6 members from West Bengal for the Council of States, the Rajya Sabha.<ref name="july">{{cite web|title=Biennial and Bye - Elections to the Council of States.|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/pn20062011A.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160518060816/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/pn20062011A.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 May 2016|publisher=Election Commission of India, New Delhi|access-date=18 August 2017}}</ref>

==Elections==
Elections were held to elect members from Goa, Gujarat and West Bengal.
The following members are elected in the elections held in 2011.

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Goa|Goa]]===
{| class="wikitable"
! Seat No
! Previous MP
! colspan=2| Previous Party
! Elected MP
! colspan=2| Elected Party
! Reference

|- style="text-align:center;"
| 1.
| [[Shantaram Naik]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}" rowspan=1|
| [[Indian National Congress|INC]]
| [[Shantaram Naik]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}" rowspan=1|
| [[Indian National Congress|INC]]
|<ref name=term>{{cite web|title=Statewise Retirement|url=http://164.100.47.5/NewMembers/RetLMemState.aspx|website=164.100.47.5|access-date=2016-06-12}}</ref>
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Gujarat|Gujarat]]===
{| class="wikitable"
! Seat No
! Previous MP
! colspan=2| Previous Party
! Elected MP
! colspan=2| Elected Party
! Reference

|- style="text-align:center;"
| 1.
| [[Ahmed Patel]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}" rowspan=1|
| [[Indian National Congress|INC]]
| [[Ahmed Patel]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}" rowspan=1|
| [[Indian National Congress|INC]]
|
|-
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 2.
| [[Pravin Naik]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2| [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
| [[Smriti Irani]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2| [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
|
|-
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 3.
| [[Surendra Motilal Patel]]
| [[Dilip Pandya]]
|
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from West Bengal|West Bengal]]===
{| class="wikitable"
! Seat No
! Previous MP
! colspan=2| Previous Party
! Elected MP
! colspan=2| Elected Party
! Reference

|- style="text-align:center;"
| 1.
| [[Abani Roy]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Revolutionary Socialist Party}}" |
|[[Revolutionary Socialist Party|RSP]]
| [[Sukhendu Sekhar Roy]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|All India Trinamool Congress}}" rowspan=4|
| rowspan=4| [[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]]
|
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 2.
|[[Arjun Kumar Sengupta]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Independent }}" |
|[[Independent politician|IND]]
| [[Derek O'Brien (quizmaster)|Derek O'Brien]]
|
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 3.
| [[Mohammed Amin (politician)|Mohammed Amin]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}" |
| [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]
| [[Debabrata Bandyopadhyay]]
|
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 4.
| [[Swapan Sadhan Bose]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|All India Trinamool Congress}}" |
| [[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]]
| [[Srinjoy Bose]]
|
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 5.
| [[Sitaram Yechury]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}" |
| [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]
| [[Sitaram Yechury]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}" |
| [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]
|
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 6.
| [[Brinda Karat]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}" |
| [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]
| [[Pradip Bhattacharya]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}" rowspan=1|
| [[Indian National Congress|INC]]
|
|}

==Bye-elections==
The bye-elections were also held for the vacant seats from the State of Karnataka,<ref name="bye-ka">{{cite web|title=Bye-Election to the Council of States from Karnataka. |url= http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/PN31012011.pdf |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160518002953/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/PN31012011.pdf |url-status= dead |archive-date= 18 May 2016 |publisher= Election Commission of India, New Delhi |access-date= 18 August 2017}}</ref> Madhya Pradesh,<ref name="bye-mp">{{cite web|title=Bye-Election to the Council of States from Madhya Pradesh.|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/pn13042011A.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160517212041/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/pn13042011A.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 May 2016|publisher=Election Commission of India, New Delhi|access-date=18 August 2017}}</ref> Maharashtra & Tamil Nadu,<ref name="july"/> Assam and Bihar.<ref name="bye-as-bh">{{cite web|title=Bye - Elections to the Council of States.|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/PN28112011.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160518000945/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/PN28112011.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 May 2016|publisher=Election Commission of India, New Delhi|access-date=18 August 2017}}</ref>

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Karnataka|Karnataka]]===
* Bye-elections were held on 3 March 2011 for vacancy from Karnataka due to death of seating member [[M. Rajasekara Murthy]] on 05/12/2010 with term ending on 02/04/2012.
{| class="wikitable"
! Seat No
! Previous MP
! colspan=2| Previous Party
! Elected MP
! colspan=2| Elected Party
! Reference
|-

|- style="text-align:center;"
| 1.
| [[M. Rajasekara Murthy]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Janata Dal (Secular)}}" |
|[[Janata Dal (Secular)|JDS]]
| [[Hema Malini]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
|<ref>{{cite news|title=Kannada writer vs Hema Malini in RS polls|url=http://www.news18.com/news/politics/kannada-writer-vs-hema-malini-in-rs-polls-361191.html|access-date=3 November 2017|work=news18|date=21 Feb 2011}}</ref>
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Madhya Pradesh|Madhya Pradesh]]===

* Bye-elections were held on 12 May 2011 for vacancy from Madhya Pradesh due to death of seating member [[Arjun Singh (politician, born 1930)|Arjun Singh]] on 04/03/2011 with term ending on 02/04/2012.

{| class="wikitable"
! Seat No
! Previous MP
! colspan=2| Previous Party
! Elected MP
! colspan=2| Elected Party
! Reference
|-

|- style="text-align:center;"
| 1.
|[[Arjun Singh (politician, born 1930)|Arjun Singh]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]]
|[[Meghraj Jain]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
|
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Maharashtra|Maharashtra]]===

* Bye-elections were held on 22 July 2011 for vacancy from Maharashtra due to resignation of seating member [[Prithviraj Chavan]] on 06/05/2011 with term ending on 02/04/2014

{| class="wikitable"
! Seat No
! Previous MP
! colspan=2| Previous Party
! Elected MP
! colspan=2| Elected Party
! Reference
|-

|- style="text-align:center;"
| 1.
|[[Prithviraj Chavan]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]]
|[[Husain Dalwai]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]]
|
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Tamil Nadu|Tamil Nadu]]===

* Bye-elections were held on 22 July 2011 for vacancy from Tamil Nadu due to resignation of [[K. P. Ramalingam]] on 20/05/2011 with term ending on 29/06/2016.

{| class="wikitable"
! Seat No
! Previous MP
! colspan=2| Previous Party
! Elected MP
! colspan=2| Elected Party
! Reference
|-

|- style="text-align:center;"
| 1.
|[[K. P. Ramalingam]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam}}" |
|[[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|DMK]]
|[[A. W. Rabi Bernard]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam}}" |
|[[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |AIADMK]]
|<ref>{{cite news|title=Rabi Bernard, AIADMK nominee for Rajya Sabha|url= http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/rabi-bernard-aiadmk-nominee-for-rajya-sabha/article2144356.ece |access-date=2 November 2017|publisher=The Hindu|date=June 29, 2011}}</ref>
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Assam|Assam]]===

* Bye-elections were held on 22 December 2011 for vacancy from Assam due to death of seating member [[Silvius Condpan]] on 10/10/2011 with term ending on 02/04/2016.

{| class="wikitable"
! Seat No
! Previous MP
! colspan=2| Previous Party
! Elected MP
! colspan=2| Elected Party
! Reference
|-

|- style="text-align:center;"
| 1.
|[[Silvius Condpan]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]]
|[[Pankaj Bora]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]]
|
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Bihar|Bihar]]===

* Bye-elections were held on 22 December 2011 for vacancy from Bihar due to resignation of [[Sabir Ali]] of LJP on 15/11/2011 with term ending on 09/04/2014.

{| class="wikitable"
! Seat No
! Previous MP
! colspan=2| Previous Party
! Elected MP
! colspan=2| Elected Party
! Reference
|-

|- style="text-align:center;"
| 1.
|[[Sabir Ali]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Lok Janashakti Party}}" |
|[[Lok Janashakti Party|LJP]]
|[[Sabir Ali]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Janata Dal (United)}}" |
|[[Janata Dal (United)|JDU]]
|<ref>{{cite web|title=Rajya Sabha accepts LJP MP Sabir Ali’s resignation|url=http://post.jagran.com/rajya-sabha-accepts-ljp-mp-sabir-alis-resignation-1322071763|access-date=2 November 2017}}</ref>
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Rajya Sabha}}

[[Category:2011 elections in India]]
[[Category:Rajya Sabha elections in India|2011]]

2011 Rajya Sabha elections - Revision history

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