2020 Rajya Sabha elections

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2020 Rajya Sabha elections were the set of indirect elections by the members of State legislatures of India, to elect new members to fill vacancies in the Rajya Sabha – the upper house of the Parliament of India. The elections are held annually and throughout the year on an ad hoc basis. The elections in 2020 are for a total of 72 seats of which 55 of them were to be elected by March 26.[1] The remaining were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Election Commission of India later announced all the elections for the remaining 24 Rajya Sabha seats were to be held on 19 June 2020.[2]

On 12 June 2020, Election commission of India declared unopposed victory over 4 seats of Karnataka and 1 seat of Arunachal Pradesh. Leaving behind 19 seats to go for elections on 19 June 2020.[3][4]

On 2 November 2020, Election commission of India declared unopposed victory over 10 seats of Uttar Pradesh and 1 seat of Uttarakhand.[5][6]

Results

Alliance/ Party Seats +/–
rowspan=11 Template:Party color cell NDA Template:Party color cell Bharatiya Janata Party 30Template:Efn Template:Color
Template:Party color cell All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 2 Template:Color
Template:Party color cell Janata Dal (United) 2 Template:Color
Template:Party color cell Bodoland People's Front 1 0
Template:Party color cell Mizo National Front 1 Template:Color
Template:Party color cell National People's Party 1 Template:Color
Template:Party color cell Republican Party of India (Athawale) 1 0
Template:Party color cell Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) 1 Template:Color
Template:Party color cell Independent (Sanjay Kakade) 0 Template:Color
Template:Party color cell Independent (Parimal Nathwani) 0 Template:Color
Total 39 Template:Color
rowspan=7 Template:Party color cell UPA Template:Party color cell Indian National Congress 9 Template:Color
Template:Party color cell Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 3 Template:Color
Template:Party color cell Nationalist Congress Party 2 0
Template:Party color cell Rashtriya Janata Dal 2 Template:Color
Template:Party color cell Jharkhand Mukti Morcha 1 Template:Color
Template:Party color cell Independent (Ajit Kumar Bhuyan) 1 Template:Color
Total 18 Template:Color
rowspan=10 Template:Party color cell Others Template:Party color cell All India Trinamool Congress 4 0
Template:Party color cell Biju Janata Dal 4 0
Template:Party color cell Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party 4 Template:Color
Template:Party color cell Telangana Rashtra Samithi 2 Template:Color
Template:Party color cell Bahujan Samaj Party 1 Template:Color
Template:Party color cell Communist Party of India (Marxist) 1 Template:Color
Template:Party color cell Janata Dal (Secular) 1 Template:Color
Template:Party color cell Loktantrik Janata Dal 1 Template:Color
Template:Party color cell Samajwadi Party 1 Template:Color
Template:Party color cell Shiv Sena 1 0

Members retiring & Elected

April Election

Maharashtra

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[7] Party
1 Sharad Pawar rowspan=2 bgcolor="Template:Party color"| NCP 02-Apr-2020 Sharad Pawar rowspan=2 bgcolor="Template:Party color"| NCP
2 Majeed Memon 02-Apr-2020 Fouzia Khan
3 Husain Dalwai width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| INC 02-Apr-2020 Rajiv Satav width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| INC
4 Rajkumar Dhoot width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| SS 02-Apr-2020 Priyanka Chaturvedi width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| SS
5 Ramdas Athawale width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| RPI(A) 02-Apr-2020 Ramdas Athawale width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| RPI(A)
6 Amar Shankar Sable width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| BJP 02-Apr-2020 Udayanraje Bhosale rowspan=2 width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| BJP
7 Sanjay Kakade width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| IND 02-Apr-2020 Bhagwat Karad

Odisha

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[8] Party
1 Ranjib Biswal width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| INC 02-Apr-2020 Subhash Chandra Singh bgcolor="Template:Party color"| BJD
2 Narendra Kumar Swain bgcolor="Template:Party color"| BJD 02-Apr-2020 Munna Khan bgcolor="Template:Party color"| BJD
3 Sarojini Hembram bgcolor="Template:Party color"| BJD 02-Apr-2020 Sujeet Kumar bgcolor="Template:Party color"| BJD
4 Vacant
(Anubhav Mohanty) 		Mamata Mohanta bgcolor="Template:Party color"| BJD

Tamil Nadu

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[9] Party
1 Sasikala Pushpa rowspan=4 bgcolor="Template:Party color"| AIADMK 02-Apr-2020 M. Thambidurai rowspan=2 bgcolor="Template:Party color"| AIADMK
2 Vijila Sathyananth 02-Apr-2020 K. P. Munusamy
3 S. Muthukaruppan 02-Apr-2020 G. K. Vasan bgcolor="Template:Party color"| TMC
4 K. Selvaraj 02-Apr-2020 Anthiyur P. Selvaraj rowspan=3 bgcolor="Template:Party color"| DMK
5 Tiruchi Siva width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| DMK 02-Apr-2020 Tiruchi Siva
6 T. K. Rangarajan width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| CPI(M) 02-Apr-2020 N. R. Elango

West Bengal

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[10] Party
1 Ahmed Hassan Imran rowspan=4 bgcolor="Template:Party color"| AITC 02-Apr-2020 Dinesh Trivedi rowspan=4 bgcolor="Template:Party color"| AITC
2 Kanwar Deep Singh AITC 02-Apr-2020 Arpita Ghosh AITC
3 Jogen Chowdhury AITC 02-Apr-2020 Mausam Noor AITC
4 Manish Gupta AITC 02-Apr-2020 Subrata Bakshi AITC
5 Ritabrata Banerjee bgcolor="Template:Party color"| IND 02-Apr-2020 Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| CPI(M)

Andhra Pradesh

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[11] Party
1 T. Subbarami Reddy rowspan=2 bgcolor="Template:Party color" | INC 09-Apr-2020 Alla Ayodhya Rami Reddy rowspan=4 bgcolor="Template:Party color" | YSRCP
2 Mohd. Ali Khan 09-Apr-2020 Pilli Subhash Chandra Bose
3 Thota Seetharama Lakshmi bgcolor="Template:Party color" rowspan=1| TDP 09-Apr-2020 Mopidevi Venkataramana
4 K. Keshava Rao width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| TRS 09-Apr-2020 Parimal Nathwani

Assam

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[12] Party
1 Biswajit Daimary width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| BPF 09-Apr-2020 Biswajit Daimary width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| BPF
2

Vacant
(Bhubaneshwar Kalita)

Bhubaneshwar Kalita width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| BJP
3 Vacant
(Sanjaya Sinh) 		Ajit Kumar Bhuyan width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| IND

Bihar

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[12] Party
1 Harivansh Narayan Singh rowspan=3 bgcolor="Template:Party color"| JD(U) 09-Apr-2020 Harivansh Narayan Singh rowspan=2 bgcolor="Template:Party color"| JD(U)
2 Ram Nath Thakur 09-Apr-2020 Ram Nath Thakur
3 Kahkashan Perween 09-Apr-2020 Prem Chand Gupta rowspan=2 bgcolor="Template:Party color"| RJD
4 Ravindra Kishore Sinha rowspan=2 bgcolor="Template:Party color"| BJP 09-Apr-2020 Amarendra Dhari Singh
5 C. P. Thakur 09-Apr-2020 Vivek Thakur bgcolor="Template:Party color"| BJP

Chhattisgarh

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[13] Party
1 Ranvijay Singh Judev width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| BJP 09-Apr-2020 K. T. S. Tulsi bgcolor="Template:Party color"| INC
2 Motilal Vora width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| INC 09-Apr-2020 Phulo Devi Netam bgcolor="Template:Party color"| INC

Gujarat

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[14] Party
1 Chunibhai K Gohel rowspan=3 bgcolor="Template:Party color"| BJP 09-Apr-2020 Abhay Bhardwaj rowspan=3 bgcolor="Template:Party color"| BJP
2 Shambhuprasad Tundiya BJP 09-Apr-2020 Ramilaben Bara BJP
3 Lal Sinh Vadodia BJP 09-Apr-2020 Narhari Amin BJP
4 Madhusudan Mistry bgcolor="Template:Party color"| INC 09-Apr-2020 Shaktisinh Gohil bgcolor="Template:Party color"| INC

Haryana

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[15] Party
1 Selja Kumari bgcolor="Template:Party color" | INC 09-Apr-2020 Deepender Singh Hooda bgcolor="Template:Party color" | INC
2 Vacant
(Ram Kumar Kashyap) 		Ram Chander Jangra width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | BJP

Himachal Pradesh

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[16] Party
1 Viplove Thakur bgcolor="Template:Party color" | INC 09-Apr-2020 Indu Goswami bgcolor="Template:Party color" | BJP

Jharkhand

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[17] Party
1 Prem Chand Gupta width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | RJD 09-Apr-2020 Shibu Soren width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| JMM
2 Parimal Nathwani width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | IND 09-Apr-2020 Deepak Prakash width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| BJP

Madhya Pradesh

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[18] Party
1 Satyanarayan Jatiya bgcolor="Template:Party color" | BJP 09-Apr-2020 Jyotiraditya Scindia width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| BJP
2 Prabhat Jha bgcolor="Template:Party color" | BJP 09-Apr-2020 Sumer Singh Solanki width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| BJP
3 Digvijaya Singh bgcolor="Template:Party color" | INC 09-Apr-2020 Digvijaya Singh width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| INC

Manipur

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[19] Party
1 Bhabananda Singh width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | BJP 09-Apr-2020 Leishemba Sanajaoba width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | BJP

Rajasthan

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[20] Party
1 Narayan Lal Panchariya rowspan=3 bgcolor="Template:Party color" | BJP 09-Apr-2020 Rajendra Gehlot bgcolor="Template:Party color" | BJP
2 Ramnarayan Dudi 09-Apr-2020 K. C. Venugopal rowspan=2 bgcolor="Template:Party color" | INC
3 Vijay Goel 09-Apr-2020 Neeraj Dangi

Telangana

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[21] Party
1 Garikapati Mohan Rao bgcolor="Template:Party color" | BJP 09-Apr-2020 K. Keshava Rao bgcolor="Template:Party color" | BRS
2 K. V. P. Ramachandra Rao bgcolor="Template:Party color" | INC 09-Apr-2020 K. R. Suresh Reddy bgcolor="Template:Party color" | BRS

Meghalaya

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party
1 Wansuk Syiem width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | INC 12-Apr-2020 Wanweiroy Kharlukhi width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | NPP

June Election

Arunachal Pradesh

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[22] Party
1 Mukut Mithi width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | INC 23-Jun-2020 Nabam Rebia bgcolor="Template:Party color" | BJP

Karnataka

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[23] Party
1 Prabhakar Kore bgcolor="Template:Party color" | BJP 25-Jun-2020 Ashok Gasti rowspan=2 bgcolor="Template:Party color" | BJP
2 B. K. Hariprasad rowspan=2 bgcolor="Template:Party color" | INC 25-Jun-2020 Eranna Kadadi
3 Rajeev Gowda 25-Jun-2020 Mallikarjun Kharge bgcolor="Template:Party color" | INC
4 D. Kupendra Reddy bgcolor="Template:Party color" | JD(S) 25-Jun-2020 H. D. Deve Gowda bgcolor="Template:Party color" | JD(S)

Mizoram

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP[24] Party
1 Ronald Sapa Tlau width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | INC 18-Jul-2020 K. Vanlalvena width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| MNF

November Election

Uttar Pradesh

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party
1 Ram Gopal Yadav rowspan=4 bgcolor="Template:Party color" | SP 25-Nov-2020 Ram Gopal Yadav bgcolor="Template:Party color" | SP
2 Ravi Prakash Verma 25-Nov-2020 Seema Dwivedi rowspan=8 bgcolor="Template:Party color" | BJP
3 Chandrapal Singh Yadav 25-Nov-2020 Hardwar Dubey
4 Javed Ali Khan 25-Nov-2020 Brij Lal
5 Hardeep Singh Puri rowspan=3 bgcolor="Template:Party color" | BJP 25-Nov-2020 Hardeep Singh Puri
6 Arun Singh 25-Nov-2020 Arun Singh
7 Neeraj Shekhar 25-Nov-2020 Neeraj Shekhar
8 P. L. Punia bgcolor="Template:Party color" | INC 25-Nov-2020 Geeta Shakya
9 Veer Singh rowspan=2 bgcolor="Template:Party color" | BSP 25-Nov-2020 B. L. Verma
10 Rajaram 25-Nov-2020 Ramji Gautam bgcolor="Template:Party color" | BSP

Uttarakhand

# Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party
1 Raj Babbar width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | INC 25-Nov-2020 Naresh Bansal bgcolor="Template:Party color" | BJP

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.

Haryana

  • On 20 January 2020 Birender Singh Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Haryana[25]
# Former MP Party Date of Vacancy Elected MP Party Term start Term end
1 Birender Singh width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | BJP 20-Jan-2020 Dushyant Kumar Gautam width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | BJP 16-Mar-2020 01-Aug-2022

Bihar

  • On 8 October 2020, Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan died.[26]
# Former MP Party Date of Vacancy Elected MP Party Term start Term end
1 Ram Vilas Paswan rowspan="1" width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | LJP 08-Oct-2020 Sushil Kumar Modi rowspan="1" width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | BJP 07-Dec-2020 02-Apr-2024

Uttar Pradesh

  • On 27 March 2020 Beni Prasad Verma died.
  • On 1 August 2020 Amar Singh died.
# Former MP Party Date of Vacancy Elected MP Party Term start Term end
1 Beni Prasad Verma width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | SP 27-Mar-2020 Jai Prakash Nishad width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | BJP 17-Aug-2020 04-Jul-2022
2 Amar Singh width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | IND 01-Aug-2020 Syed Zafar Islam width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | BJP 11-Sep-2020 04-Jul-2022

Kerala

  • On 28 May 2020 Veerendra Kumar died.
# Former MP Party Date of Vacancy Elected MP Party Term start Term end
1 M. P. Veerendra Kumar width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | IND 28-May-2020 M. V. Shreyams Kumar width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | LJD 24-Aug-2020 02-Apr-2022

Karnataka

  • On 17 September 2020 Ashok Gasti died.
# Former MP Party Date of Vacancy Elected MP Party Term start Term end
1 Ashok Gasti width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | BJP 17-Sep-2020 K. Narayan width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | BJP 24-Nov-2020 25-Jun-2026

Nominations

Note:

  • Listed According Date Of Retirement

Nominated

# Previous MP Party Term end Nominated MP Party Term start Reference
1 K. T. S. Tulsi Nominated 25-Feb-2020 Ranjan Gogoi Nominated 16-Mar-2020 [27]

Notes

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References

  1. ↑ Rajya Sabha dynamics to change in April. The Economic Times(2020-02-08). Retrieved 2020-02-12.
  2. ↑ Rajya Sabha Election Dates 2020: Elections to 24 Rajya Sabha seats on June 19: EC. The Times of India. Retrieved 2020-06-05.
  3. ↑ Rajya Sabha Polls 2020: HD Deve Gowda, Mallikarjun Kharge And 2 Others Elected Unopposed. ABP News(2020-06-12). Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  4. ↑ नामांकन के आखिरी दिन पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री देवगौड़ा, कांग्रेस नेता खड़गे और 2 भाजपा नेता बिना विरोध के चुन लिए गए, Shukla, Udayan. Dainik Bhaskar(2020-06-12). Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  5. ↑ UP Rajya Sabha polls: All 10 candidates elected unopposed(2 November 2020). Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  6. ↑ BJP's Naresh Bansal declared elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from Uttarakhand(2 November 2020). Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  7. ↑ Sharad Pawar, Ramdas Athawale, Udayanraje Bhosale among seven elected to Rajya Sabha. Pune Mirror. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  8. ↑ Odisha: All 4 BJD nominees to Rajya Sabha sail through unopposed, Suffian, Mohammad. India Today.
  9. ↑ Six elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from Tamil Nadu. Deccan Herald(2020-03-18). Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  10. ↑ All 5 Rajya Sabha candidates in West Bengal elected unopposed. The Economic Times(18 March 2020).
  11. ↑ Rajya Sabha elections 2020: Jagan Reddy's ruling YSRC bags all four seats in AP. Zee News(19 June 2020).
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Assam: 2 NDA MPs, 1 Congress-backed independent candidate elected to Rajya Sabha unopposed. India Today.
  13. ↑ Congress's K T S Tulsi, Phulo Devi Netam elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from Chhattisgarh. The Economic Times(18 March 2020).
  14. ↑ Rajya Sabha Election Results Gujarat: BJP bags 3 out of 4 seats, Joshi, Manas. www.indiatvnews.com(19 June 2020).
  15. ↑ BJP's Jangra & Gautam, Congress's Hooda elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha | Chandigarh News - Times of India. The Times of India.
  16. ↑ BJP's Indu Goswami elected to Rajya Sabha from Himachal Pradesh. India Today.
  17. ↑ Shibu Soren, BJP's Deepak Prakash Win Rajya Sabha Polls In Jharkhand. NDTV.com.
  18. ↑ BJP-Congress Take Madhya Pradesh Rajya Sabha Seats 2-1. NDTV.com.
  19. ↑ Rajya Sabha 2020 Election Result Live: BJP wins Manipur seat amid turmoil, all eyes on MP, Gujarat and Rajasthan. The Financial Express(2020-06-19). Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  20. ↑ Rajasthan Rajya Sabha Election Results: Congress' KC Venugopal, Neeraj Dangi win, Taneja, Nidhi. www.indiatvnews.com(19 June 2020).
  21. ↑ RS Polls: Both TRS Candidates Elected Unopposed, Formal Elections On In AP. Sakshi Post(2020-03-19). Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  22. ↑ BJP wins Arunachal Pradesh Rajya Sabha seat. The Hindu(2020-06-12). Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  23. ↑ With HD Deve Gowda, Others, Karnataka Fills 4 Rajya Sabha Seats Unopposed. NDTV.
  24. ↑ MNF wins RS polls, K Vanlalvena is new RS member from Mizoram(19 June 2020).
  25. ↑ Chaudhary Birender Singh resigns from Rajya Sabha. Hindustan Times(17 November 2019).
  26. ↑ Ram Vilas Paswan death news: M Modi pays last respects to Ram Vilas Paswan at the latter's residence. The Times of India(9 October 2020). Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  27. ↑ Ex-CJI Ranjan Gogoi nominated to Rajya Sabha. India Today.

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