Muskit Gergous at 13:02, 27 November 2023

2023-11-27T13:02:45Z

New page

{{short description|Elections to the upper house of the Indian Parliament}}
{{Update|date=January 2020}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
{{Infobox election
|election_name = 2019 Rajya Sabha elections
|country = India
|type = parliamentary
|ongoing = Complete
|previous_election = 2018 Indian Rajya Sabha elections
|previous_year = 2018
|next_election = 2020 Indian Rajya Sabha elections
|next_year = 2020
|election_date = 7 June and 18 July 2019
|seats_for_election = 8 seats to the [[Rajya Sabha]]
|map = [[File:Rajya Sabha election, 2019.svg|300px]]

|image1 = {{CSS image crop|Image =Thaawar Chand Gehlot addressing at the presentation of the Awards to the winners of ‘Short Film Competition on Divyangjan Shashaktikaran-2017’.jpg|bSize = 190|cWidth = 80|cHeight = 110|oTop = 5|oLeft = 60}}
|leader1 = [[Thawar Chand Gehlot]]
|party1 = Bharatiya Janata Party
|leader_since1 = 11 June 2019
|leaders_seat1 = [[List of Rajya Sabha members from Madhya Pradesh|Madhya Pradesh]]
|alliance1 = National Democratic Alliance (India)
| seats_before1 = 73
| seats_after1 = 83
| seat_change1 = {{increase}} 10

|image2 = [[File:Ghulam Nabi Azad-cropped.JPG|125x115px]]
|leader2 = [[Ghulam Nabi Azad]]
|party2 = Indian National Congress
|leader_since2 = 8 June 2014
|leaders_seat2 = [[List of Rajya Sabha members from Jammu and Kashmir|Jammu and Kashmir]]
|alliance2 = United Progressive Alliance
|seats_before2 = 50
|seats_after2 = 46
|seat_change2 = {{decrease}} 4

}}

'''2019 Rajya Sabha elections''' were held on 7 June, 5 July and 18 July, to elect the retiring members of the [[Rajya Sabha]], the [[Parliament of India|Indian Parliament's]] upper chamber. The elections were held to elect 2 members from [[Assam]] on 7 June 2019, as well as 6 members from [[Tamil Nadu]] on 5 July 2019.

The elections resulted in the ruling [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]] maintaining and increasing their majority with a net gain of 10 seats.

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

|- style="text-align:center;"
! 1
| [[Manmohan Singh]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
|[[Indian National Congress]]
| [[Kamakhya Prasad Tasa]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| rowspan=2 |<ref name=ibt>{{cite news |date=31 May 2019 |title=Nominees of BJP, AGP elected unopposed to two RS seats in Assam|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/nominees-of-bjp-agp-elected-unopposed-to-two-rs-seats-in-assam-119053101369_1.html|newspaper=[[Business Standard]] |access-date=14 July 2019 }}</ref>

|- style="text-align:center;"
! 2
| [[Santiuse Kujur]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
|[[Indian National Congress]]
| [[Birendra Prasad Baishya]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{Asom Gana Parishad/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
| [[Asom Gana Parishad]]

|}

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

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

|- style="text-align:center;"
! 1
| [[R. Lakshmanan]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
| [[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
| [[A. Mohammedjan]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
|[[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
| rowspan=6 |<ref name="term">{{cite news|title=Six candidates elected unopposed as Rajya Sabha MPs|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/vaiko-anbumani-elected-unopposed-to-rajya-sabha-from-tamil-nadu/article28382319.ece|date=11 July 2019|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=8 February 2020}}</ref>
|-

|- style="text-align:center;"
! 2
| [[V. Maitreyan]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
|[[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
| N. Chandrasekaran
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
|[[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
|-

|- style="text-align:center;"
! 3
| [[K. R. Arjunan]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
|[[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
| [[Anbumani Ramadoss]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{Pattali Makkal Katchi/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
| [[Pattali Makkal Katchi]]
|-

|- style="text-align:center;"
! 4
| [[T. Rathinavel]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
|[[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
| [[M. Shanmugam]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
|[[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
|-

|- style="text-align:center;"
! 5
| [[Kanimozhi]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
| [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
| [[P. Wilson]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
|[[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
! 6
| [[D. Raja]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{Communist Party of India/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
| [[Communist Party of India]]
| [[Vaiko]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
| [[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-election]]s, which for the Rajya Sabha often take some months to organise.
===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Bihar|Bihar]]===

* On 23 May 2019 Ravi Shankar Prasad Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from [[List of Rajya Sabha members from Bihar|Bihar]] due to his election as the member of Lok Sabha From [[Patna Sahib (Lok Sabha constituency)| Patna Sahib]]

* On 8 September 2019 Ram Jethmalani Had Died

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! S.No
! Former MP
! colspan=2| Party
! Date of Vacancy
! Elected MP
! colspan=2| Party
! Date of appointment
! Date of retirement
|- style="text-align:center;"
! 1
| [[Ravi Shankar Prasad]]
| width="1" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| 23 May 2019
|[[Ram Vilas Paswan]]
| width="1" bgcolor="{{Lok Janshakti Party/meta/color}}" rowspan="1" |
|[[Lok Janshakti Party]]
| 28 June 2019
| 2 April 2024
|-style="text-align:center;"
! 2
|[[Ram Jethmalani]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{Rashtriya Janata Dal/meta/color}}" rowspan="1" |
|[[Rashtriya Janata Dal]]
|8 September 2019
|[[Satish Chandra Dubey]]
| width="1" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|9 October 2019
|7 July 2022

|}

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

* On 23 May 2019 Amit Shah Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from [[List of Rajya Sabha members from Gujarat|Gujarat]] due to his election as the member of Lok Sabha From [[Gandhinagar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Gandhinagar]]

* On 24 May 2019 Smriti Irani Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from [[List of Rajya Sabha members from Gujarat|Gujarat]] due to her election as the member of Lok Sabha From [[Amethi (Lok Sabha constituency)|Amethi]]
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! S.No
! Former MP
! colspan=2| Party
! Date of Vacancy
! Elected MP
! colspan=2| Party
! Date of appointment
! Date of retirement

|- style="text-align:center;"
! 1
| [[ Amit Shah]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" |
| [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|23 May 2019
| [[ S. Jaishankar]]
| width="1" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" |
| [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| 5 July 2019
| 18 August 2023
|- style="text-align:center;"
! 2
| [[Smriti Irani]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| 24 May 2019
| [[Jugalji Mathurji Thakor|Jugalji Thakore]]
| width="1" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" |
| [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| 5 July 2019
| 18 August 2023

|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Odisha|Odisha]]===
* On 24 May 2019 Achyuta Samanta Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from [[List of Rajya Sabha members from Odisha|Odisha]] due to his election as the member of Lok Sabha From [[Kandhamal (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kandhamal]]

* On 6 June 2019 Soumya Ranjan Patnaik Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from [[List of Rajya Sabha members from Odisha|Odisha]] due to his election as the member of [[Odisha Legislative Assembly]] From [[Khandapada (Odisha Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Khandapada]]

* On 6 June 2019 Pratap Keshari Deb Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from [[List of Rajya Sabha members from Odisha|Odisha]] due to his election as the member of [[Odisha Legislative Assembly]] From [[Aul (Odisha Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Aul]]

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! S.No
! Former MP
! colspan=2| Party
! Date of Vacancy
! Elected MP
! colspan=2| Party
! Date of appointment
! Date of retirement
|- style="text-align:center;"
! 1
| [[Achyuta Samanta]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{Biju Janata Dal/meta/color}}" |
|[[Biju Janata Dal]]
|24 May 2019
|[[Sasmit Patra]]
| width="1" bgcolor="{{Biju Janata Dal/meta/color}}" |
|[[Biju Janata Dal]]
| 28 June 2019
| 3 April 2024
|- style="text-align:center;"
! 2
| [[Soumya Ranjan Patnaik]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{Biju Janata Dal/meta/color}}" |
|[[Biju Janata Dal]]
| 6 June 2019
|[[Amar Patnaik]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{Biju Janata Dal/meta/color}}" |
|[[Biju Janata Dal]]
|28 June 2019
|3 April 2024
|- style="text-align:center;"
! 3
| [[Pratap Keshari Deb]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{Biju Janata Dal/meta/color}}" |
|[[Biju Janata Dal]]
| 9 June 2019
|[[Ashwini Vaishnaw]]
| width="1" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" rowspan="1" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|28 June 2019
| 1 July 2022

|}

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

* 24 June 2019 Madan Lal Saini Had Died
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! S.No
! Former MP
! colspan=2| Party
! Date of Vacancy
! Elected MP
! colspan=2| Party
! Date of appointment
! Date of retirement

|- style="text-align:center;"
! 1
| [[Madan Lal Saini]]
| width="1" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| 24 June 2019
|[[Manmohan Singh]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" rowspan="1" |
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|26 August 2019
| 3 April 2024

|}

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

* On 15 July 2019 Neeraj Sekhar Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from [[List of Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh|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 [[List of Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh|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 [[List of Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh|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 [[List of Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh|Uttar Pradesh]] due to her election as the member of [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]] On 21 October by-poll From [[Rampur (Assembly constituency)|Rampur]]

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! S.No
! Former MP
! colspan=2| Party
! Date of Vacancy
! Elected MP
! colspan=2| Party
! Date of appointment
! Date of retirement

|- style="text-align:center;"
! 1
|[[Neeraj Shekhar]]
| width="1" bgcolor="{{Samajwadi Party/meta/color}}" |
|[[Samajwadi Party]]
| 15 July 2019
|[[Neeraj Shekhar]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" rowspan="1" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|26 August 2019
|25 November 2020
|-style="text-align:center;"
! 2
|[[Surendra Singh Nagar]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{Samajwadi Party/meta/color}}" |
|[[Samajwadi Party]]
|2 August 2019
|[[Surendra Singh Nagar]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" rowspan="1" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|16 September 2019
|4 July 2022
|-style="text-align:center;"
! 3
|[[Sanjay Seth]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{Samajwadi Party/meta/color}}" |
|[[Samajwadi Party]]
|5 August 2019
|[[Sanjay Seth]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" rowspan="1" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|16 September 2019
|4 July 2022
|-style="text-align:center;"
! 4
|[[Arun Jaitley]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" rowspan="1" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|24 August 2019
|[[Sudhanshu Trivedi]]
| width="1" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|9 October 2019
|2 April 2024
|-style="text-align:center;"
!5
|[[Tazeen Fatma]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{Samajwadi Party/meta/color}}" |
|[[Samajwadi Party]]
|24 October 2019
|[[Arun Singh (politician, born 1965)|Arun Singh]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" rowspan="1" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|5 December 2019
|25 November 2020
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Karnataka|Karnataka]]===
* On 16 October 2019 K. C. Ramamurthy Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from [[List of Rajya Sabha members from Karnataka|Karnataka]] And Membership of [[Indian National Congress]] And Joined [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! S.No
! Former MP
! colspan=2| Party
! Date of Vacancy
! Elected MP
! colspan=2| Party
! Date of appointment
! Date of retirement
|- style="text-align:center;"
! 1
| [[K. C. Ramamurthy]]
| width="1" bgcolor="{{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" |
|[[Indian National Congress]]
| 16 October 2019
|[[K. C. Ramamurthy]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" rowspan="1" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|5 December 2019
|30 June 2022
|- style="text-align:center;"
|}

==See also==
* [[2019 Indian general election]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Rajya Sabha}}

{{#seo:
|keywords=
|description=
}}

[[Category:Rajya Sabha elections in India|2019]]
[[Category:2019 elections in India|Rajya]]

2019 Indian Rajya Sabha elections - Revision history

Muskit Gergous at 13:02, 27 November 2023