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Rajya Sabha elections, 2016
← 2015 March 14 and June 11, 2016 2017 →
70 seats to the Rajya Sabha
  First party Second party
 
Leader Ghulam Nabi Azad Arun Jaitley
Party INC BJP
Alliance UPA NDA
Leader since June 8, 2014 June 3, 2009
Leader's seat Jammu and Kashmir Gujarat
Seats before 66 48
Seats won 60 55
Seat change Decrease 6 Increase 7

Rajya Sabha elections were held in India on March 14,[1] and June 11, 2016, to elect 13 and 57 members of the Rajya Sabha respectively.[2]

March elections

The election of March 14, 2016 was held to elect 13 members for duration of 6 years from 6 states to the Rajya Sabha. The seats in following states were up for election with terms of sitting members ending as: Assam - 2 seats, Himachal Pradesh - 1 seat, Kerala - 3 seats, Tripura - 1 seat all term ending on 2 April 201; Nagaland - 1 seat with term ending on 2 April 2016 but vacant since 26 November 2015 and Punjab - 5 seats with term ending on 9 April 2016.[1]

Assam

Seat No Previous MP Previous Party Elected MP Elected Party Reference
1 Naznin Faruque width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress Ranee Narah width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress [3]
2 Pankaj Bora width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress Ripun Bora width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress

Himachal Pradesh

Seat No Previous MP Previous Party Elected MP Elected Party Reference
1 Bimla Kashyap Sood width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP Anand Sharma width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress [4]

Kerala

Seat No Previous MP Previous Party Elected MP Elected Party Reference
1 A. K. Antony width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress A. K. Antony width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress [5]
2 K.N. Balagopal width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color" rowspan=1| CPI(M) M. P. Veerendra Kumar width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Janata Dal (United)/meta/color" rowspan=1| JD(U)
3 Dr T N Seema width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color" rowspan=1| CPI(M) K. Somaprasad width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color" rowspan=1| CPI(M)

Nagaland

Seat No Previous MP Previous Party Elected MP Elected Party Reference
1 Khekiho Zhimomi
Vacant 		width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Naga People's Front/meta/color" rowspan=1| NPF K. G. Kenye width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Naga People's Front/meta/color" rowspan=1| NPF [5]

Tripura

Seat No Previous MP Previous Party Elected MP Elected Party Reference
1 Jharna Das width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color" rowspan=1| CPI(M) Jharna Das width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color" rowspan=1| CPI(M) [6]

Punjab

Seat No Previous MP Previous Party Elected MP Elected Party Reference
1 M S Gill width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress Pratap Singh Bajwa width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress [5][4][7]
2 Ashwini Kumar width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress Shamsher Singh Dullo width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress
3 Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Shiromani Akali Dal/meta/color" rowspan=1| SAD Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Shiromani Akali Dal/meta/color" rowspan=1| SAD
4 Naresh Gujral width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Shiromani Akali Dal/meta/color" rowspan=1| SAD Naresh Gujral width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Shiromani Akali Dal/meta/color" rowspan=1| SAD
5 Avinash Rai Khanna width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP Shwet Malik width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP

June elections

The election of June 11, 2016 was held to elect 57 members from 15 states to the Rajya Sabha. The seats in following states were up for election:[2]

Andhra Pradesh

Seat No Previous MP Previous Party Elected MP Elected Party Reference
1 Nirmala Sitaraman width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP Suresh Prabhu width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP [5]
2 Y. S. Chowdary width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Telugu Desam Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| TDP Y. S. Chowdary width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Telugu Desam Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| TDP
3 Jairam Ramesh width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress T G Venkatesh width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Telugu Desam Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| TDP
4 Jesudasu Seelam width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress V. Vijaysai Reddy width="1px" bgcolor="Template:YSR Congress Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| YSRCP

Bihar

Seat No Previous MP Previous Party Elected MP Elected Party Reference
1 Sharad Yadav width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Janata Dal (United)/meta/color" rowspan=1| JD(U) Sharad Yadav width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Janata Dal (United)/meta/color" rowspan=1| JD(U) [5]
2 Ramchandra Prasad Singh width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Janata Dal (United)/meta/color" rowspan=1| JD(U) Ramchandra Prasad Singh width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Janata Dal (United)/meta/color" rowspan=1| JD(U)
3 K. C. Tyagi width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Janata Dal (United)/meta/color" rowspan=1| JD(U) Ram Jethmalani width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Rashtriya Janata Dal/meta/color" rowspan=1| RJD
4 Gulam Rasool Balyawi width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Janata Dal (United)/meta/color" rowspan=1| JD(U) Misa Bharti width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Rashtriya Janata Dal/meta/color" rowspan=1| RJD
5 Pavan Kumar Varma width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Janata Dal (United)/meta/color" rowspan=1| JD(U) Gopal Narayan Singh width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP

Chhattisgarh

Seat No Previous MP Previous Party Elected MP Elected Party Reference
1 Nand Kumar Sai width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP Ramvichar Netam width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP [5]
2 Mohsina Kidwai width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress Chhaya Verma width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress [5]

Haryana

Seat No Previous MP Previous Party Elected MP Elected Party Reference
1 Birender Singh width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP Birender Singh width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP [5]
2 Suresh Prabhu width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP Subhash Chandra width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Independent/meta/color" rowspan=1| Independent [5]

Jharkhand

Seat No Previous MP Previous Party Elected MP Elected Party Reference
1 M J Akbar width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP [5]
2 Dhiraj Prasad Sahu width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress Mahesh Poddar width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP [5]

Karnataka

Seat No Previous MP Previous Party Elected MP Elected Party Reference
1 Oscar Fernandes width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress Oscar Fernandes width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress [5]
2 Aayanur Manjunath width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP Jairam Ramesh width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress
3 Dr Vijay Mallya width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Independent/meta/color" rowspan=1| Independent K. C. Ramamurthy width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress
4 M. Venkaiah Naidu width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP Nirmala Sitharaman width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP

Madhya Pradesh

Seat No Previous MP Previous Party Elected MP Elected Party Reference
1 Anil Madhav Dave width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP Anil Madhav Dave width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP [5]
2 Chandan Mitra width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP M. J. Akbar width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP
3 Dr Vijayalaxmi Sadho width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress Vivek Tankha width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress

Maharashtra

Seat No Previous MP Previous Party Elected MP Elected Party Reference
1 Piyush Goyal width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP Piyush Goyal width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP [5]
2 Ishwarlal Jain width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Nationalist Congress Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| NCP Vinay Sahasrabuddhe width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP
3 Avinash Pande width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress Vikas Mahatme width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP
4 Vijay J. Darda width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress P. Chidambaram width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress
5 Praful Patel width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Nationalist Congress Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| NCP Praful Patel width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Nationalist Congress Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| NCP
6 Sanjay Raut width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Shiv Sena/meta/color" rowspan=1| SHS Sanjay Raut width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Shiv Sena/meta/color" rowspan=1| SHS

Odisha

Seat No Previous MP Previous Party Elected MP Elected Party Reference
1 Baishnab Charan Parida width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Biju Janata Dal/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJD N. Bhaskar Rao width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Biju Janata Dal/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJD [5]
2 Pyarimohan Mohapatra width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Biju Janata Dal/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJD Prasanna Acharya width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Biju Janata Dal/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJD
3 Bhupinder Singh width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Biju Janata Dal/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJD Bishnu Charan Das width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Biju Janata Dal/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJD

Punjab

Seat No Previous MP Previous Party Elected MP Elected Party Reference
1 Ambika Soni width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress Ambika Soni width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress [5]
2 Balwinder Singh Bhunder width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Shiromani Akali Dal/meta/color" rowspan=1| SAD Balwinder Singh Bhunder width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Shiromani Akali Dal/meta/color" rowspan=1| SAD [5]

Rajasthan

Seat No Previous MP Previous Party Elected MP Elected Party Reference
1 Ashk Ali Tak width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP Om Prakash Mathur width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP [5]
2 Ram Jethmalani width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP M. Venkaiah Naidu width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP
3 Vijayendrapal Singh width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP Ram Kumar Verma width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP
4 Anand Sharma width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress Harshvardhan Singh width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP

Tamil Nadu

Seat No Previous MP Previous Party Elected MP Elected Party Reference
1 K. P. Ramalingam width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color" rowspan=1| DMK R. S. Bharathi width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color" rowspan=1| DMK [5]
2 S. Thangavelu width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color" rowspan=1| DMK T. K. S. Elangovan width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color" rowspan=1| DMK
3 A. Navaneethakrishnan width="1px" bgcolor="Template:All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color" rowspan=1| ADMK A. Navaneethakrishnan width="1px" bgcolor="Template:All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color" rowspan=1| ADMK
4 P. H. Paul Manoj Pandian width="1px" bgcolor="Template:All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color" rowspan=1| ADMK S. R. Balasubramoniyan width="1px" bgcolor="Template:All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color" rowspan=1| ADMK
5 A. W. Rabi Bernard width="1px" bgcolor="Template:All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color" rowspan=1| ADMK A. Vijayakumar width="1px" bgcolor="Template:All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color" rowspan=1| ADMK
6 E. M. Sudarsana Natchiappan width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress R. Vaithilingam width="1px" bgcolor="Template:All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color" rowspan=1| ADMK

Telangana

Seat No Previous MP Previous Party Elected MP Elected Party Reference
1 Gundu Sudha Rani width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Telugu Desam Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| TDP D. Srinivas width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Telangana Rashtra Samithi/meta/color" rowspan=1| TRS [5]
2 V. Hanumantha Rao width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress V. Lakshmikantha Rao width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Telangana Rashtra Samithi/meta/color" rowspan=1| TRS [5]

Uttar Pradesh

Seat No Previous MP Previous Party Elected MP Elected Party Reference
1 Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP Shiv Pratap Shukla width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP [5]
2 Vishambhar Prasad Nishad width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Samajwadi Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| SP Vishambhar Prasad Nishad width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Samajwadi Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| SP
3 Smt Kanak Lata Singh width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Samajwadi Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| SP Amar Singh width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Samajwadi Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| SP
4 Arvind Kumar Singh width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Samajwadi Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| SP Surendra Nagar width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Samajwadi Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| SP
5 Satish Sharma width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress Kapil Sibal width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress
6 Jugal Kishore width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bahujan Samaj Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BSP Sanjay Seth width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Samajwadi Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| SP
7 Narendra Kumar Kashyap width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bahujan Samaj Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BSP Sukhram Singh Yadav width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Samajwadi Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| SP
8 Salim Ansari width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bahujan Samaj Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BSP Rewati Raman Singh width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Samajwadi Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| SP
9 Rajpal Singh Saini width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bahujan Samaj Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BSP Beni Prasad Verma width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Samajwadi Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| SP
10 Satish Chandra Mishra width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bahujan Samaj Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BSP Satish Chandra Mishra width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bahujan Samaj Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BSP
11 Ambeth Rajan width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bahujan Samaj Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BSP Ashok Siddharth width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bahujan Samaj Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BSP

Uttarakhand

Seat No Previous MP Previous Party Elected MP Elected Party Reference
1 Tarun Vijay width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP Pradeep Tamta width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| Congress [5]

Bye elections

Sr No State Previous MP Party Elected MP Party Reference
1 Gujarat Praveen Rashtrapal width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| INC Parsottambhai Rupala width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP [8]
2 Madhya Pradesh Najma Heptullah width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP La Ganesan width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| BJP [9]

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