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{{Short description|Elections for the upper house of Indian Parliament}}
{{Update|date=January 2020}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}

{{Infobox election
| country = India
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 2018 Rajya Sabha elections
| previous_year = 2018
| next_election = 2020 Rajya Sabha elections
| next_year =2020
| election_date = 31 May – 5 December 2019
| seats_for_election = 22 seats in the [[Rajya Sabha]]{{efn|Including 14 [[Casual vacancy|casual vacancies]]}}

| image1 = {{CSS image crop|Image=Thawar Chand Gehlot.jpg|bSize=110|cWidth=100|cHeight=120|oLeft=10|oTop=04}}
| leader1 = [[Thawar Chand Gehlot]]
| party1 = Bharatiya Janata Party
| leader_since1 = 11 June 2019
| leaders_seat1 = [[Madhya Pradesh]]
| alliance1 = [[National Democratic Alliance|NDA]]
| seats_before1 = 73
| seats_after1 = 83
| seat_change1 = {{increase}} 10
| image2 = {{CSS image crop|Image=Ghulam Nabi Azad-cropped.JPG|bSize=110|cWidth=100|cHeight=120|oLeft=10|oTop=04}}
| leader2 = [[Ghulam Nabi Azad]]
| party2 = Indian National Congress
| leader_since2 = 8 June 2014
| leaders_seat2 = [[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu and Kashmir]]
| alliance2 = [[United Progressive Alliance|UPA]]
| seats_before2 = 50
| seats_after2 = 46
| seat_change2 = {{decrease}} 4
}}
'''2019 Rajya Sabha elections''' were held throughout 2019, to fill the vacancies in the [[Rajya Sabha]], the [[Parliament of India|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.

The elections resulted in the ruling [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]] maintaining and increasing their majority with a net gain of 6 seats.

==Results==
===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="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}" rowspan=1|
|[[Indian National Congress]]
| [[Kamakhya Prasad Tasa]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" 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="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}" rowspan=1|
|[[Indian National Congress]]
| [[Birendra Prasad Baishya]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Asom Gana Parishad}}" 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="{{party color|All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam}}" rowspan=1|
| [[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
| [[A. Mohammedjan]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam}}" 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="{{party color|All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam}}" rowspan=1|
|[[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
| N. Chandrasekaran
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam}}" rowspan=1|
|[[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
|-

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

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

|- style="text-align:center;"
! 5
| [[Kanimozhi]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam}}" rowspan=1|
| [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
| [[P. Wilson]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam}}" rowspan=1|
|[[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
! 6
| [[D. Raja]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Communist Party of India}}" rowspan=1|
| [[Communist Party of India]]
| [[Vaiko]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam}}" 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="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| 23 May 2019
|[[Ram Vilas Paswan]]
| width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Lok Janshakti Party}}" rowspan="1" |
|[[Lok Janshakti Party]]
| 28 June 2019
| 2 April 2024
|-style="text-align:center;"
! 2
|[[Ram Jethmalani]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Rashtriya Janata Dal}}" rowspan="1" |
|[[Rashtriya Janata Dal]]
|8 September 2019
|[[Satish Chandra Dubey]]
| width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|[[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="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
| [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|23 May 2019
| [[S. Jaishankar]]
| width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
| [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| 5 July 2019
| 18 August 2023
|- style="text-align:center;"
! 2
| [[Smriti Irani]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| 24 May 2019
| [[Jugalji Mathurji Thakor|Jugalji Thakore]]
| width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
| [[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="{{party color|Biju Janata Dal}}" |
|[[Biju Janata Dal]]
|24 May 2019
|[[Ashwini Vaishnaw]]
| width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" rowspan="1" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| 28 June 2019
| 3 April 2024
|- style="text-align:center;"
! 2
| [[Soumya Ranjan Patnaik]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Biju Janata Dal}}" |
|[[Biju Janata Dal]]
| 6 June 2019
|[[Amar Patnaik]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Biju Janata Dal}}" |
|[[Biju Janata Dal]]
|28 June 2019
|3 April 2024
|- style="text-align:center;"
! 3
| [[Pratap Keshari Deb]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Biju Janata Dal}}" |
|[[Biju Janata Dal]]
| 9 June 2019
|[[Sasmit Patra]]
| width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Biju Janata Dal}}" |
|[[Biju Janata Dal]]
|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="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| 24 June 2019
|[[Manmohan Singh]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}" 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 (Uttar Pradesh politician)|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="{{party color|Samajwadi Party}}" |
|[[Samajwadi Party]]
| 15 July 2019
|[[Neeraj Shekhar]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" rowspan="1" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|26 August 2019
|25 November 2020
|-style="text-align:center;"
! 2
|[[Surendra Singh Nagar]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Samajwadi Party}}" |
|[[Samajwadi Party]]
|2 August 2019
|[[Surendra Singh Nagar]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" rowspan="1" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|16 September 2019
|4 July 2022
|-style="text-align:center;"
! 3
|[[Sanjay Seth (Uttar Pradesh politician)|Sanjay Seth]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Samajwadi Party}}" |
|[[Samajwadi Party]]
|5 August 2019
|[[Sanjay Seth (Uttar Pradesh politician)|Sanjay Seth]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" rowspan="1" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|16 September 2019
|4 July 2022
|-style="text-align:center;"
! 4
|[[Arun Jaitley]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" rowspan="1" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|24 August 2019
|[[Sudhanshu Trivedi]]
| width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|9 October 2019
|2 April 2024
|-style="text-align:center;"
!5
|[[Tazeen Fatma]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Samajwadi Party}}" |
|[[Samajwadi Party]]
|24 October 2019
|[[Arun Singh (politician, born 1965)|Arun Singh]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" 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="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|[[Indian National Congress]]
| 16 October 2019
|[[K. C. Ramamurthy]]
|width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" rowspan="1" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|5 December 2019
|30 June 2022
|- style="text-align:center;"
|}

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

==Notes==
{{notelist}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Rajya Sabha}}

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

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