2022 Rajya Sabha elections
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74 seats in the Rajya Sabha[a] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. |
Rajya Sabha elections were held throughout 2022, to elect the retiring members of the Rajya Sabha, the Indian Parliament's upper house.[1][2][3]
Elections to the 4 vacant seats from Jammu and Kashmir were not held in February as the union territory is under President's rule and the assembly has been dissolved.[4]
List of elections by states
- Listed according to the dates
State | Members retiring | Date of retirement |
---|---|---|
Assam | 2 | 2 April 2022 |
Himachal Pradesh | 1 | |
Kerala | 3 | |
Nagaland | 1 | |
Tripura | 1 | |
Punjab | 5 | 9 April 2022 |
Andhra Pradesh | 4 | 21 June 2022 |
Telangana | 2 | |
Chhattisgarh | 2 | 29 June 2022 |
Madhya Pradesh | 3 | |
Tamil Nadu | 6 | |
Karnataka | 4 | 30 June 2022 |
Odisha | 3 | 1 July 2022 |
Maharashtra | 6 | 4 July 2022 |
Punjab | 2 | 4 July 2022 |
Rajasthan | 4 | |
Uttar Pradesh | 11 | |
Uttarakhand | 1 | |
Bihar | 5 | 7 July 2022 |
Jharkhand | 2 | |
Haryana | 2 | 1 August 2022 |
Total | 70 |
State | Vacant seats | Date of vacancy |
---|---|---|
Telangana | 1 | 4 December 2021 |
Bihar | 1 | 26 December 2021 |
Odisha | 1 | 27 April 2022 |
Tripura | 1 | 26 June 2022 |
Results
Members retiring and elected
Note:
- Listed according to date of retirement
No | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | Ref. | ||
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1 | Ripun Bora | INC | 02-Apr-2022 | Rwngwra Narzary | UPPL | [5] | ||
2 | Ranee Narah | INC | 02-Apr-2022 | Pabitra Margherita | BJP |
No | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | Ref. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Anand Sharma | INC | 02-Apr-2022 | Sikander Kumar | BJP | [6] |
No | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | Ref. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | A. K. Antony | INC | 02-Apr-2022 | Jebi Mather | INC | [7] | ||
2 | K. Somaprasad | CPI(M) | 02-Apr-2022 | A. A. Rahim | CPI(M) | |||
3 | M. V. Shreyams Kumar | LJD | 02-Apr-2022 | P. Santhosh Kumar | CPI |
No | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | Ref. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | K. G. Kenye | NPF | 02-Apr-2022 | Phangnon Konyak | BJP | [8] |
No | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | Ref. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jharna Das | CPI(M) | 02-Apr-2022 | Manik Saha | BJP | [9] |
No | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | Ref. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa | SAD | 9 April 2022 | Harbhajan Singh | AAP | [10] | ||
2 | Naresh Gujral | Raghav Chadha | ||||||
3 | Pratap Singh Bajwa | INC | Sandeep Pathak | |||||
4 | Shamsher Singh Dullo | Ashok Mittal | ||||||
5 | Shwait Malik | BJP | Sanjeev Arora | |||||
6 | Balwinder Singh Bhunder | SAD | 4 July 2022 | Balbir Singh Seechewal | ||||
7 | Ambika Soni | INC | Vikramjit Singh Sahney |
No | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | V. Vijayasai Reddy | YSRCP | 21 June 2022 | V. Vijayasai Reddy | YSRCP | [11] | ||
2 | Suresh Prabhu | BJP | 21 June 2022 | R. Krishnaiah | ||||
3 | Y. S. Chowdary | 21 June 2022 | S. Niranjan Reddy | |||||
4 | T. G. Venkatesh | 21 June 2022 | Beeda Masthan Rao |
No | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | Ref. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | V. Lakshmikantha Rao | TRS | 21 June 2022 | B. Parthasaradhi Reddy | TRS | [12] | ||
2 | D. Srinivas | 21 June 2022 | D. Damodar Rao |
No | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | Ref. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Ramvichar Netam | BJP | 29-Jun-2022 | Rajeev Shukla | INC | [13] | ||
2 | Chhaya Verma | INC | 29-Jun-2022 | Ranjeet Ranjan |
No | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | Ref. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | M. J. Akbar | BJP | 29-Jun-2022 | Kavita Patidar | BJP | [14] | ||
2 | Sampatiya Uikey | 29-Jun-2022 | Sumitra Valmiki | |||||
3 | Vivek Tankha | INC | 29-Jun-2022 | Vivek Tankha | INC |
No | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | Ref. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | R. S. Bharathi | DMK | 29-Jun-2022 | R. Girirajan | DMK | [15] | ||
2 | T. K. S. Elangovan | 29-Jun-2022 | S. Kalyanasundaram | |||||
3 | K. R. N. Rajeshkumar | 29-Jun-2022 | K. R. N. Rajeshkumar | |||||
4 | A. Navaneethakrishnan | AIADMK | 29-Jun-2022 | P. Chidambaram | INC | |||
5 | S. R. Balasubramoniyan | 29-Jun-2022 | C. V. Shanmugam | AIADMK | ||||
6 | A. Vijayakumar | 29-Jun-2022 | R. Dharmar |
No | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | Ref. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Nirmala Sitharaman | BJP | 30-Jun-2022 | Nirmala Sitharaman | BJP | [16] | ||
2 | K. C. Ramamurthy | 30-Jun-2022 | Jaggesh | |||||
3 | Oscar Fernandes | INC | 30-Jun-2022 | Lehar Singh Siroya | ||||
4 | Jairam Ramesh | 30-Jun-2022 | Jairam Ramesh | INC |
No | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | Ref. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sasmit Patra | BJD | 1 July 2022 | Sasmit Patra | BJD | [17] | ||
2 | Prasanna Acharya | Manas Ranjan Mangaraj | ||||||
3 | N. Bhaskar Rao | Sulata Deo |
No | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | Ref. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Piyush Goyal | BJP | 04-Jul-2022 | Piyush Goyal | BJP | [18] | ||
2 | Vinay Sahasrabuddhe | 04-Jul-2022 | Anil Sukhdevrao Bonde | |||||
3 | Vikas Mahatme | 04-Jul-2022 | Dhananjay Mahadik | |||||
4 | Praful Patel | NCP | 04-Jul-2022 | Praful Patel | NCP | |||
5 | P. Chidambaram | INC | 04-Jul-2022 | Imran Pratapgarhi | INC | |||
6 | Sanjay Raut | SHS | 04-Jul-2022 | Sanjay Raut | SHS |
No | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | Ref. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Om Prakash Mathur | BJP | 04-Jul-2022 | Randeep Surjewala | INC | [19] | ||
2 | Ram Kumar Verma | 04-Jul-2022 | Mukul Wasnik | |||||
3 | Harshvardhan Singh Dungarpur | 04-Jul-2022 | Pramod Tiwari | |||||
4 | Alphons Kannanthanam | 04-Jul-2022 | Ghanshyam Tiwari | BJP |
No | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | Ref. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Surendra Singh Nagar | BJP | 04-Jul-2022 | Surendra Singh Nagar | BJP | [20] | ||
2 | Shiv Pratap Shukla | 04-Jul-2022 | Laxmikant Bajpai | |||||
3 | Sanjay Seth | 04-Jul-2022 | Radha Mohan Das Agarwal | |||||
4 | Jai Prakash Nishad | 04-Jul-2022 | Baburam Nishad | |||||
5 | Syed Zafar Islam | 04-Jul-2022 | Sangeeta Yadav | |||||
6 | Rewati Raman Singh | SP | 04-Jul-2022 | Darshana Singh | ||||
7 | Sukhram Singh Yadav | 04-Jul-2022 | Mithlesh Kumar | |||||
8 | Vishambhar Prasad Nishad | 04-Jul-2022 | K. Laxman | |||||
9 | Satish Chandra Mishra | BSP | 04-Jul-2022 | Jayant Chaudhary | RLD | |||
10 | Ashok Siddharth | 04-Jul-2022 | Javed Ali Khan | SP | ||||
11 | Kapil Sibal | INC | 04-Jul-2022 | Kapil Sibal | IND |
No | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | Ref. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Pradeep Tamta | INC | 04-Jul-2022 | Kalpana Saini | BJP | [21] |
No | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | Ref. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Gopal Narayan Singh | BJP | 07-Jul-2022 | Shambhu Sharan Patel | BJP | [22] | ||
2 | Satish Chandra Dubey | 07-Jul-2022 | Satish Chandra Dubey | |||||
3 | Ramchandra Prasad Singh | JD(U) | 07-Jul-2022 | Khiru Mahto | JD(U) | |||
4 | Sharad Yadav | 07-Jul-2022 | Faiyaz Ahmad | RJD | ||||
5 | Misa Bharti | RJD | 07-Jul-2022 | Misa Bharti |
No | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | Ref. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi | BJP | 07-Jul-2022 | Aditya Sahu | BJP | [23] | ||
2 | Mahesh Poddar | BJP | 07-Jul-2022 | Mahua Maji | JMM |
No | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | Ref. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Dushyant Kumar Gautam | BJP | 01-Aug-2022 | Krishan Lal Panwar | BJP | [24] | ||
2 | Subhash Chandra | IND | 01-Aug-2022 | Kartikeya Sharma | IND |
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.
- On 26 December 2021, Mahendra Prasad died
No | Former MP | Party | Date of vacancy | Elected MP | Party | Date of appointment | Date of retirement | Ref. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Mahendra Prasad | JD(U) | 26 December 2021 | Anil Hegde | JD(U) | 30 May 2022 | 2 April 2024 | [25] |
- On 4 December 2021, Banda Prakash resigned
No | Former MP | Party | Date of vacancy | Elected MP | Party | Date of appointment | Date of retirement | Ref. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Banda Prakash | TRS | 4 December 2021 | Vaddiraju Ravichandra | TRS | 30 May 2022 | 2 April 2024 | [26] |
- On 27 April 2022, Subhash Chandra Singh was elected the Mayor of Cuttack.
No | Former MP | Party | Date of vacancy | Elected MP | Party | Date of appointment | Date of retirement | Ref. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Subhash Chandra Singh | BJD | 27 April 2022 | Niranjan Bishi | BJD | 13 June 2022 | 2 April 2026 | [27] |
- On 26 June 2022 Manik Saha was elected to the Tripura Legislative Assembly.
No | Former MP | Party | Date of vacancy | Elected MP | Party | Date of appointment | Date of retirement | Ref. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Manik Saha | BJP | 26 June 2022 | Biplab Deb | BJP | 22 September 2022 | 2 April 2028 | [28] |
Nominations
Nominated members
No | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Nominated MP | Party | Date of appointment | Ref. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Narendra Jadhav | Nominated | 24-Apr-2022 | Ilaiyaraaja | Nominated | 06-Jul-2022 | [29] | ||
2 | Mary Kom | Nominated | 24-Apr-2022 | P. T. Usha | Nominated | 06-Jul-2022 | |||
3 | Roopa Ganguly | Nominated (BJP) | 24-Apr-2022 | V. Vijayendra Prasad | Nominated | 06-Jul-2022 | |||
4 | Swapan Dasgupta | Nominated (BJP) | 24-Apr-2022 | Veerendra Heggade | Nominated | 06-Jul-2022 | |||
5 | Suresh Gopi | Nominated (BJP) | 24-Apr-2022 | Ghulam Ali Khatana | Nominated (BJP) | 10-Sep-2022 | [30] |
See also
Notes
- ^ Including 4 casual vacancies
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