2026 Rajya Sabha elections

The 2026 Rajya Sabha elections will be held as part of a routine six-year cycle of the upper house of the Parliament of India from 16 March to November 2026 to elect 72 of its 245 members, of which the states through their legislators elect 233, and the remaining 12 are appointed by the President.

Electoral system

MPs are elected through indirect election by the members of the State legislative assemblies using the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote. Each voter (MLA) ranks candidates in the order of preference (marking 1, 2, 3 and so on) under an open ballot system. Candidates have to reach a specific quota of votes in order to win a seat.

<math> \text{Quota} = \left( \frac{\text{Total valid votes}}{\text{Vacancies} + 1} \right) + 1 </math>

For a single-seat election, each ballot is valued at one. When multiple seats are filled, the ballot value is set to one hundred.

A candidate is elected unopposed when the number of candidates matches the number of available seats after nominations and withdrawals period.

Schedule

Poll event	March election
Date of Notification	26 February 2026
Last date for filing nomination	5 March 2026
Scrutiny of nomination	6 March 2026
Last date for withdrawal of nomination	9 March 2026
Date of Poll (if necessary) & Declaration of Result	16 March 2026

Members Retiring and Elected

March Election

Election were held in Bihar, Haryana & Odisha to elect its Rajya Sabha MPs on 16 March 2026. For rest of the states, MPs have won uncontested as number of candidates matched the number of available seats after nominations and withdrawals period.

Assam

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Bhubaneshwar Kalita	Template:Party name with color	09-Apr-2026	Jogen Mohan	Template:Party name with color
2	Rameswar Teli	Terash Gowalla
3	Ajit Kumar Bhuyan	Template:Party name with color		Pramod Boro	Template:Party name with colour

Bihar

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Harivansh Narayan Singh	Template:Party name with color	09-Apr-2026	Nitish Kumar	Template:Party name with color
2	Ram Nath Thakur	Ram Nath Thakur
3	Prem Chand Gupta	Template:Party name with color		Nitin Nabin	Template:Party name with color
4	Amarendra Dhari Singh	Shivesh Kumar
5	Upendra Kushwaha	Template:Party name with color		Upendra Kushwaha	Template:Party name with color

Chhattisgarh

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	K. T. S. Tulsi	Template:Party name with color	09-Apr-2026	Laxmi Verma	Template:Party name with color
2	Phulo Devi Netam	Phulo Devi Netam		Template:Party name with color

Haryana

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Kiran Chaudhary	Template:Party name with color	09-Apr-2026	Sanjay Bhatia	Template:Party name with color
2	Ram Chander Jangra	Karamvir Singh Boudh		Template:Party name with color

Himachal Pradesh

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Indu Goswami	Template:Party name with color	09-Apr-2026	Anurag Sharma	Template:Party name with color

Maharashtra

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Dhairyashil Patil	Template:Party name with color	02-Apr-2026	Vinod Tawde	Template:Party name with color
2	Bhagwat Karad	Ramrao Wadkute
3	Rajani Patil	Template:Party name with color		Maya Ivnate
4	Priyanka Chaturvedi	Template:Party name with color		Jyoti Waghmare	Template:Party name with color
5	Ramdas Athawale	Template:Party name with color		Ramdas Athawale	Template:Party name with color
6	Fouzia Khan	Template:Party name with color		Parth Pawar	Template:Party name with color
7	Sharad Pawar	Sharad Pawar		Template:Party name with color

Odisha

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Mamata Mohanta	Template:Party name with color	02-Apr-2026	Manmohan Samal	Template:Party name with color
2	Sujeet Kumar	Sujeet Kumar
3	Munna Khan	Template:Party name with color		Santrupta Mishra	Template:Party name with color
4	Niranjan Bishi	Dilip Ray		Template:Party name with color

Tamil Nadu

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Tiruchi Siva	Template:Party name with color	02-Apr-2026	Tiruchi Siva	Template:Party name with color
2	N. R. Elango	J. Constantine Ravindran
3	P. Selvarasu	M. Christopher Tilak		Template:Party name with color
4	Kanimozhi N. V. N. Somu	L. K. Sudhish		Template:Party name with color
5	M. Thambidurai	Template:Party name with color		M. Thambidurai	Template:Party name with color
6	G. K. Vasan	Template:Party name with color		Anbumani Ramadoss	Template:Party name with color

Telangana

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Abhishek Manu Singhvi	Template:Party name with color	09-Apr-2026	Abhishek Manu Singhvi	Template:Party name with color
2	K. R. Suresh Reddy	Template:Party name with color		Vem Narender Reddy

West Bengal

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Subrata Bakshi	Template:Party name with color	02-Apr-2026	Babul Supriyo	Template:Party name with color
2	Ritabrata Banerjee	Koel Mallick
3	Mausam NoorTemplate:Efn	Menaka Guruswamy
4	Saket Gokhale	Rajeev Kumar
5	Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya	Template:Party name with color		Rahul Sinha	Template:Party name with color

May Election

Andhra Pradesh

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Sana Satish	Template:Party name with color	21-Jun-2026		Template:Party name with color
2	Alla Ayodhya Rami Reddy	Template:Party name with color
3	Pilli Subhash Chandra Bose
4	Parimal Nathwani			Template:Party name with color

Arunachal Pradesh

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Nabam Rebia	Template:Party name with color	23-Jun-2026		Template:Party name with color

Gujarat

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Rambhai Mokariya	Template:Party name with color	21-Jun-2026		Template:Party name with color
2	Ramilaben Bara
3	Narhari Amin
4	Shaktisinh Gohil	Template:Party name with color

Jharkhand

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Vacant (Shibu Soren)					Template:Party name with color
2	Deepak Prakash	Template:Party name with color	21-Jun-2026

Karnataka

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Iranna B. Kadadi	Template:Party name with color	25-Jun-2026		Template:Party name with color
2	K. Narayan			Template:Party name with color
3	Mallikarjun Kharge	Template:Party name with color
4	H. D. Deve Gowda	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |		JD(S)

Madhya Pradesh

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	George Kurian	Template:Party name with color	21-Jun-2026		Template:Party name with color
2	Sumer Singh Solanki
3	Digvijaya Singh	Template:Party name with color			Template:Party name with color

Manipur

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Leishemba Sanajaoba	Template:Party name with color	21-Jun-2026		Template:Party name with color

Meghalaya

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Wanweiroy Kharlukhi	Template:Party name with color	21-Jun-2026		Template:Party name with color

Mizoram

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	K. Vanlalvena	Template:Party name with color	19-Jul-2026		Template:Party name with color

Rajasthan

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Rajendra Gehlot	Template:Party name with color	21-Jun-2026		Template:Party name with color
2	Ravneet Singh Bittu
3	Neeraj Dangi	Template:Party name with color			Template:Party name with color

November Election

Uttarakhand

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Naresh Bansal	Template:Party name with color	25-Nov-2026		Template:Party name with color

Uttar Pradesh

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Hardeep Singh Puri	Template:Party name with color	25-Nov-2026		Template:Party name with color
2	Dinesh Sharma
3	Seema Dwivedi
4	Brij Lal
5	Arun Singh
6	Neeraj Shekhar
7	Geeta Shakya
8	B. L. Verma			Template:Party name with color
9	Ram Gopal Yadav	Template:Party name with color
10	Ramji Gautam	Template:Party name with color			Template:Efn

Nominated

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Nominated MP	Party
1	Ranjan Gogoi		NOM	16-Mar-2026	Harivansh Narayan Singh		NOM

By-elections

Maharashtra

#	Previous MP	Party		Vacancy date	Elected MP	Party		Term start	Term end	Reason for Vacancy
1	Sunetra Pawar	Template:Party name with color	TBD