2019 Rajya Sabha elections
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Rajya Sabha elections were held on 7 June, 5 July and 18 July 2019, to elect the retiring members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber. The elections held to elect 2 members from Assam on 7 June 2019 and 6 members from Tamil Nadu in 5 July 2019.
Elections
| Seat No | Previous MP | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Reference | ||
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| 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 | |
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 4 December 2017 Sharad Yadav Had Been Disqualified
- 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 | ||
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| 1 | Sharad Yadav | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Janata Dal (United)/meta/color" rowspan="1" | | Janata Dal (United) | 4 December 2017 | TBD | 7 July 2022 | |||
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 |
- 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 | ||
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| 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 |
- On 24 May 2019 Anubhav Mohanty Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Odisha due to his election as the member of Lok Sabha From Kendrapara
- 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
- On 06 June 2019 Soumya Ranjan Patnaik Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Odisha due to his election as the member of Odisha Legislative Assembly From Khandapada
- On 06 June 2019 Pratap Keshari Deb Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Odisha due to his election as the member of Odisha Legislative Assembly From Aul
| S.No | Former MP | Party | Date of Vacancy | Elected MP | Party | Date of appointment | Date of retirement | ||
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| 1 | Anubhav Mohanty | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Biju Janata Dal/meta/color" | | Biju Janata Dal | 24 May 2019 | TBD | 2 April 2020 | |||
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 |
- 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 | ||
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| 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 |
- On 15 July 2019 Neeraj Sekhar Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh And Membership Of Samajwadi Party And Joined Bharatiya Janata Party
- On 2 August 2019 Surendra Singh Nagar Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh And Membership Of Samajwadi Party And Joined Bharatiya Janata Party
- On 5 August 2019 Sanjay Seth Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh And Membership Of Samajwadi Party And Joined Bharatiya Janata Party
- On 24 August 2019 Arun Jaitley Had Died
- On 24 October 2019 Tazeen Fatma Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh due to his election as the member of Legislative Assembly From Rampur
- On 30 July 2019 Sanjay Sinh Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Assam And Membership Of Congress And Joined Bharatiya Janata Party
- On 5 August 2019 Bhubaneshwar Kalita Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Assam And Membership Of Congress And Joined Bharatiya Janata Party
| S.No | Former MP | Party | Date of Vacancy | Elected MP | Party | Date of appointment | Date of retirement | ||
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| 1 | Sanjay Sinh | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" | | Indian National Congress | 30 July 2019 | TBD | 9 April 2020 | |||
| 2 | Bhubaneshwar Kalita | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" | | Indian National Congress | 5 August 2019 | TBD | 9 April 2020 | |||
- On 16 October 2019 K C Ramamurthy Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka And Membership Of Congress And Joined Bharatiya Janata Party
| S.No | Former MP | Party | Date of Vacancy | Elected MP | Party | Date of appointment | Date of retirement | ||
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| 1 | K.C. Ramamurthy | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" | | Indian National Congress | 16 October 2019 | TBD | 30 June 2022 | |||
See also
References
- ^ "Nominees of BJP, AGP elected unopposed to two RS seats in Assam". Business Standard. 31 May 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
- ^ "Six candidates elected unopposed as Rajya Sabha MPs". The Hindu. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
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