2019 Rajya Sabha elections

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Template:Infobox election 2019 Rajya Sabha elections were held throughout 2019, to fill the vacancies in the Rajya Sabha, the 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 BJP maintaining and increasing their majority with a net gain of 6 seats.

Results

Elections

Assam

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Manmohan Singh	width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" rowspan=1\|	Indian National Congress	Kamakhya Prasad Tasa	width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" rowspan=1\|	Bharatiya Janata Party	^[1]
2	Santiuse Kujur	width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" rowspan=1\|	Indian National Congress	Birendra Prasad Baishya	width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" rowspan=1\|	Asom Gana Parishad	^[1]

Tamil Nadu

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	R. Lakshmanan	width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" rowspan=1\|	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	A. Mohammedjan	width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" rowspan=1\|	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	^[2]
2	V. Maitreyan	width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" rowspan=1\|	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	N. Chandrasekaran	width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" rowspan=1\|	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
3	K. R. Arjunan	width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" rowspan=1\|	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	Anbumani Ramadoss	width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" rowspan=1\|	Pattali Makkal Katchi
4	T. Rathinavel	width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" rowspan=1\|	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	M. Shanmugam	width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" rowspan=1\|	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
5	Kanimozhi	width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" rowspan=1\|	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	P. Wilson	width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" rowspan=1\|	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
6	D. Raja	width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" rowspan=1\|	Communist Party of India	Vaiko	width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party 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-elections, which for the Rajya Sabha often take some months to organise.

Bihar

On 23 May 2019 Ravi Shankar Prasad Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Bihar due to his election as the member of Lok Sabha From Patna Sahib
On 8 September 2019 Ram Jethmalani Had Died

S.No	Former MP	Party		Date of Vacancy	Elected MP	Party		Date of appointment	Date of retirement
1	Ravi Shankar Prasad	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|	Bharatiya Janata Party	23 May 2019	Ram Vilas Paswan	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" rowspan="1" \|	Lok Janshakti Party	28 June 2019	2 April 2024
2	Ram Jethmalani	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" rowspan="1" \|	Rashtriya Janata Dal	8 September 2019	Satish Chandra Dubey	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|	Bharatiya Janata Party	9 October 2019	7 July 2022

Gujarat

On 23 May 2019 Amit Shah Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat due to his election as the member of Lok Sabha From Gandhinagar
On 24 May 2019 Smriti Irani Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat due to her election as the member of Lok Sabha From Amethi

S.No	Former MP	Party		Date of Vacancy	Elected MP	Party		Date of appointment	Date of retirement
1	Amit Shah	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|	Bharatiya Janata Party	23 May 2019	S. Jaishankar	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|	Bharatiya Janata Party	5 July 2019	18 August 2023
2	Smriti Irani	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|	Bharatiya Janata Party	24 May 2019	Jugalji Thakore	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|	Bharatiya Janata Party	5 July 2019	18 August 2023

Odisha

On 24 May 2019 Achyuta Samanta Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Odisha due to his election as the member of Lok Sabha From Kandhamal
On 6 June 2019 Soumya Ranjan Patnaik Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Odisha due to his election as the member of Odisha Legislative Assembly From Khandapada
On 6 June 2019 Pratap Keshari Deb Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Odisha due to his election as the member of Odisha Legislative Assembly From Aul

S.No	Former MP	Party		Date of Vacancy	Elected MP	Party		Date of appointment	Date of retirement
1	Achyuta Samanta	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|	Biju Janata Dal	24 May 2019	Ashwini Vaishnaw	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" rowspan="1" \|	Bharatiya Janata Party	28 June 2019	3 April 2024
2	Soumya Ranjan Patnaik	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|	Biju Janata Dal	6 June 2019	Amar Patnaik	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|	Biju Janata Dal	28 June 2019	3 April 2024
3	Pratap Keshari Deb	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|	Biju Janata Dal	9 June 2019	Sasmit Patra	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|	Biju Janata Dal	28 June 2019	1 July 2022

Rajasthan

24 June 2019 Madan Lal Saini Had Died

S.No	Former MP	Party		Date of Vacancy	Elected MP	Party		Date of appointment	Date of retirement
1	Madan Lal Saini	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|	Bharatiya Janata Party	24 June 2019	Manmohan Singh	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" rowspan="1" \|	Indian National Congress	26 August 2019	3 April 2024

Uttar Pradesh

On 15 July 2019 Neeraj Sekhar Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from 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 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 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 Uttar Pradesh due to her election as the member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly On 21 October by-poll From Rampur

S.No	Former MP	Party		Date of Vacancy	Elected MP	Party		Date of appointment	Date of retirement
1	Neeraj Shekhar	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|	Samajwadi Party	15 July 2019	Neeraj Shekhar	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" rowspan="1" \|	Bharatiya Janata Party	26 August 2019	25 November 2020
2	Surendra Singh Nagar	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|	Samajwadi Party	2 August 2019	Surendra Singh Nagar	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" rowspan="1" \|	Bharatiya Janata Party	16 September 2019	4 July 2022
3	Sanjay Seth	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|	Samajwadi Party	5 August 2019	Sanjay Seth	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" rowspan="1" \|	Bharatiya Janata Party	16 September 2019	4 July 2022
4	Arun Jaitley	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" rowspan="1" \|	Bharatiya Janata Party	24 August 2019	Sudhanshu Trivedi	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|	Bharatiya Janata Party	9 October 2019	2 April 2024
5	Tazeen Fatma	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|	Samajwadi Party	24 October 2019	Arun Singh	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" rowspan="1" \|	Bharatiya Janata Party	5 December 2019	25 November 2020

Karnataka

On 16 October 2019 K. C. Ramamurthy Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka And Membership of Indian National Congress And Joined Bharatiya Janata Party

S.No	Former MP	Party		Date of Vacancy	Elected MP	Party		Date of appointment	Date of retirement
1	K. C. Ramamurthy	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|	Indian National Congress	16 October 2019	K. C. Ramamurthy	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" rowspan="1" \|	Bharatiya Janata Party	5 December 2019	30 June 2022

Notes

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References

↑ Nominees of BJP, AGP elected unopposed to two RS seats in Assam. Business Standard(31 May 2019). Retrieved 14 July 2019.
↑ Six candidates elected unopposed as Rajya Sabha MPs. The Hindu(11 July 2019). Retrieved 8 February 2020.

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[ibt-1] Nominees of BJP, AGP elected unopposed to two RS seats in Assam. Business Standard(31 May 2019). Retrieved 14 July 2019.

[term-2] Six candidates elected unopposed as Rajya Sabha MPs. The Hindu(11 July 2019). Retrieved 8 February 2020.

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