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2019 Rajya Sabha elections
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Thaawar Chand Gehlot addressing at the presentation of the Awards to the winners of ‘Short Film Competition on Divyangjan Shashaktikaran-2017’.jpg
Leader Thawar Chand Gehlot Ghulam Nabi Azad
Party BJP INC
Alliance NDA UPA
Leader since 11 June 2019 8 June 2014
Leader's seat Madhya Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir
Seats before 73 50
Seats after 83 46
Seat change Increase 10 Decrease 4

2019 Rajya Sabha elections were held on 7 June, 5 July and 18 July, to elect the retiring members of the Rajya Sabha, the Indian Parliament's upper chamber. The elections were held to elect 2 members from Assam on 7 June 2019, as well as 6 members from Tamil Nadu on 5 July 2019.

The elections resulted in the ruling BJP maintaining and increasing their majority with a net gain of 10 seats.

Elections

Assam

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

Tamil Nadu

Seat No Previous MP Previous Party Elected MP Elected Party Reference
1 R. Lakshmanan width="1px" bgcolor="Template:All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color" rowspan=1| All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam A. Mohammedjan width="1px" bgcolor="Template:All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color" rowspan=1| All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam [2]
2 V. Maitreyan width="1px" bgcolor="Template:All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color" rowspan=1| All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam N. Chandrasekaran width="1px" bgcolor="Template:All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color" rowspan=1| All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
3 K. R. Arjunan width="1px" bgcolor="Template:All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color" rowspan=1| All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Anbumani Ramadoss width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Pattali Makkal Katchi/meta/color" rowspan=1| Pattali Makkal Katchi
4 T. Rathinavel width="1px" bgcolor="Template:All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color" rowspan=1| All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam M. Shanmugam width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color" rowspan=1| Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
5 Kanimozhi width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color" rowspan=1| Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam P. Wilson width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color" rowspan=1| Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
6 D. Raja width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Communist Party of India/meta/color" rowspan=1| Communist Party of India Vaiko width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/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:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" | Bharatiya Janata Party 23 May 2019 Ram Vilas Paswan width="1" bgcolor="Template:Lok Janshakti Party/meta/color" rowspan="1" | Lok Janshakti Party 28 June 2019 2 April 2024
2 Ram Jethmalani width="1" bgcolor="Template:Rashtriya Janata Dal/meta/color" rowspan="1" | Rashtriya Janata Dal 8 September 2019 Satish Chandra Dubey width="1" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/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:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" | Bharatiya Janata Party 23 May 2019 S. Jaishankar width="1" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" | Bharatiya Janata Party 5 July 2019 18 August 2023
2 Smriti Irani width="1" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" | Bharatiya Janata Party 24 May 2019 Jugalji Thakore width="1" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/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
S.No Former MP Party Date of Vacancy Elected MP Party Date of appointment Date of retirement
1 Achyuta Samanta width="1" bgcolor="Template:Biju Janata Dal/meta/color" | Biju Janata Dal 24 May 2019 Sasmit Patra width="1" bgcolor="Template:Biju Janata Dal/meta/color" | Biju Janata Dal 28 June 2019 3 April 2024
2 Soumya Ranjan Patnaik width="1" bgcolor="Template:Biju Janata Dal/meta/color" | Biju Janata Dal 6 June 2019 Amar Patnaik width="1" bgcolor="Template:Biju Janata Dal/meta/color" | Biju Janata Dal 28 June 2019 3 April 2024
3 Pratap Keshari Deb width="1" bgcolor="Template:Biju Janata Dal/meta/color" | Biju Janata Dal 9 June 2019 Ashwini Baishnab width="1" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan="1" | Bharatiya Janata Party 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:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" | Bharatiya Janata Party 24 June 2019 Manmohan Singh width="1" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan="1" | Indian National Congress 26 August 2019 3 April 2024

Uttar Pradesh

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

Karnataka

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:Indian National Congress/meta/color" | Indian National Congress 16 October 2019 K. C. Ramamurthy width="1" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan="1" | Bharatiya Janata Party 5 December 2019 30 June 2022

See also

References

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