2019 Rajya Sabha elections

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

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	^[1]

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 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
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

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 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
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

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

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 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly On 21st October by-poll From Rampur

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	TBD				25 November 2020

Assam

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
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

Karnataka

On 16 October 2019 K. C. Ramamurthy Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka And Membership of Indian National Congress And Joined Bharatiya Janata Party

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	TBD				30 June 2022

Haryana

On 24 October 2019 Ram Kumar Kashyap Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Haryana due to his election as the member of Haryana Legislative Assembly On 21st October From Indri

S.No	Former MP	Party		Date of Vacancy	Elected MP	Party		Date of appointment	Date of retirement
1	Ram Kumar Kashyap	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" \|	Bharatiya Janata Party	24 October 2019	TBD				09 April 2020

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.

[ibt-1] "Nominees of BJP, AGP elected unopposed to two RS seats in Assam". Business Standard. 31 May 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2019.

[term-2] "Six candidates elected unopposed as Rajya Sabha MPs". The Hindu. Retrieved 14 July 2019.

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Elections

By-elections

See also

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