2020 Rajya Sabha elections

2020 Rajya Sabha elections
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78 of the 233 elected seats in the Rajya Sabha; 122 total seats needed for a majority
Majority before election; None;	Majority after election ; None;

2020 Rajya Sabha elections were the set of indirect elections by the members of State legislatures of India, to elect new members to fill vacancies in the Rajya Sabha – the upper house of the Parliament of India. The elections are held annually and throughout the year on an ad hoc basis. The elections in 2020 are for a total of 72 seats of which 55 of them were to be elected by March 26.^[1] The remaining were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Election Commission of India later announced all the elections for the remaining 24 Rajya Sabha seats were to be held on 19 June 2020.^[2]

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On 12 June 2020, Election commission of India declared unopposed victory over 4 seats of Karnataka and 1 seat of Arunachal Pradesh. Leaving behind 19 seats to go for elections on 19 June 2020.^[3]^[4]

On 2 November 2020, Election commission of India declared unopposed victory over 10 seats of Uttar Pradesh and 1 seat of Uttarakhand.^[5]^[6]

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Alliance/ Party				Seats	+/–
Alliance/ Party					NDA	Bharatiya Janata Party	30^[i]	+10
	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	2	-2
	Janata Dal (United)	2	-1
	Bodoland People's Front	1	0
	Mizo National Front	1	+1
	National People's Party	1	+1
	Republican Party of India (Athawale)	1	0
	Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar)	1	+1
	Independent (Sanjay Kakade)	0	-1
	Independent (Parimal Nathwani)	0	-1
Total		39	+8
	UPA		Indian National Congress	9	-8
			Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	3	+1
			Nationalist Congress Party	2	0
			Rashtriya Janata Dal	2	+2
			Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	1	+1
			Independent (Ajit Kumar Bhuyan)	1	+1
		Total		18	-3
	Others		All India Trinamool Congress	4	0
			Biju Janata Dal	4	0
			Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party	4	+4
			Telangana Rashtra Samithi	2	+2
			Bahujan Samaj Party	1	-1
			Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1	-1
			Janata Dal (Secular)	1	-2
			Loktantrik Janata Dal	1	-2
			Samajwadi Party	1	-2
			Shiv Sena	1	0

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP^[7]
1	Sharad Pawar	NCP	02-Apr-2020	Sharad Pawar	NCP
2	Majeed Memon	NCP	02-Apr-2020	Fouzia Khan	NCP
3	Husain Dalwai	INC	02-Apr-2020	Rajiv Satav	INC
4	Rajkumar Dhoot	SS	02-Apr-2020	Priyanka Chaturvedi	SS
5	Ramdas Athawale	RPI(A)	02-Apr-2020	Ramdas Athawale	RPI(A)
6	Amar Shankar Sable	BJP	02-Apr-2020	Udayanraje Bhosale	BJP
7	Sanjay Kakade	IND	02-Apr-2020	Bhagwat Karad	BJP

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP^[8]
1	Ranjib Biswal	INC	02-Apr-2020	Subhash Chandra Singh	BJD
2	Narendra Kumar Swain	BJD	02-Apr-2020	Munna Khan	BJD
3	Sarojini Hembram	BJD	02-Apr-2020	Sujeet Kumar	BJD
4	Vacant (Anubhav Mohanty)			Mamata Mohanta	BJD

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP^[9]
1	Sasikala Pushpa	AIADMK	02-Apr-2020	M. Thambidurai	AIADMK
2	Vijila Sathyananth		02-Apr-2020	K. P. Munusamy	AIADMK
3	S. Muthukaruppan		02-Apr-2020	G. K. Vasan	TMC
4	K. Selvaraj		02-Apr-2020	Anthiyur P. Selvaraj	DMK
5	Tiruchi Siva	DMK	02-Apr-2020	Tiruchi Siva
6	T. K. Rangarajan	CPI(M)	02-Apr-2020	N. R. Elango

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP^[10]
1	Ahmed Hassan Imran	AITC	02-Apr-2020	Dinesh Trivedi	AITC
2	Kanwar Deep Singh	AITC	02-Apr-2020	Arpita Ghosh	AITC
3	Jogen Chowdhury	AITC	02-Apr-2020	Mausam Noor	AITC
4	Manish Gupta	AITC	02-Apr-2020	Subrata Bakshi	AITC
5	Ritabrata Banerjee	IND	02-Apr-2020	Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya	CPI(M)

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP^[11]
1	T. Subbarami Reddy	INC	09-Apr-2020	Alla Ayodhya Rami Reddy	YSRCP
2	Mohd. Ali Khan	INC	09-Apr-2020	Pilli Subhash Chandra Bose
3	Thota Seetharama Lakshmi	TDP	09-Apr-2020	Mopidevi Venkataramana
4	K. Keshava Rao	TRS	09-Apr-2020	Parimal Nathwani

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP^[12]
1	Biswajit Daimary	BPF	09-Apr-2020	Biswajit Daimary	BPF
2	Vacant (Bhubaneshwar Kalita)			Bhubaneshwar Kalita	BJP
3	Vacant (Sanjaya Sinh)			Ajit Kumar Bhuyan	IND

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP^[12]
1	Harivansh Narayan Singh	JD(U)	09-Apr-2020	Harivansh Narayan Singh	JD(U)
2	Ram Nath Thakur		09-Apr-2020	Ram Nath Thakur	JD(U)
3	Kahkashan Perween		09-Apr-2020	Prem Chand Gupta	RJD
4	Ravindra Kishore Sinha	BJP	09-Apr-2020	Amarendra Dhari Singh	RJD
5	C. P. Thakur	BJP	09-Apr-2020	Vivek Thakur	BJP

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP^[13]	Party
1	Ranvijay Singh Judev		BJP	09-Apr-2020	K. T. S. Tulsi		INC
2	Motilal Vora		INC	09-Apr-2020	Phulo Devi Netam		INC

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP^[14]
1	Chunibhai K Gohel	BJP	09-Apr-2020	Abhay Bhardwaj	BJP
2	Shambhuprasad Tundiya	BJP	09-Apr-2020	Ramilaben Bara	BJP
3	Lal Sinh Vadodia	BJP	09-Apr-2020	Narhari Amin	BJP
4	Madhusudan Mistry	INC	09-Apr-2020	Shaktisinh Gohil	INC

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP^[15]	Party
1	Selja Kumari		INC	09-Apr-2020	Deepender Singh Hooda		INC
2	Vacant (Ram Kumar Kashyap)				Ram Chander Jangra		BJP

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP^[17]	Party
1	Prem Chand Gupta		RJD	09-Apr-2020	Shibu Soren		JMM
2	Parimal Nathwani		IND	09-Apr-2020	Deepak Prakash		BJP

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP^[18]
1	Satyanarayan Jatiya	BJP	09-Apr-2020	Jyotiraditya Scindia	BJP
2	Prabhat Jha	BJP	09-Apr-2020	Sumer Singh Solanki	BJP
3	Digvijaya Singh	INC	09-Apr-2020	Digvijaya Singh	INC

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP^[20]
1	Narayan Lal Panchariya	BJP	09-Apr-2020	Rajendra Gehlot	BJP
2	Ramnarayan Dudi		09-Apr-2020	K. C. Venugopal	INC
3	Vijay Goel		09-Apr-2020	Neeraj Dangi	INC

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP^[21]	Party
1	Garikapati Mohan Rao		BJP	09-Apr-2020	K. Keshava Rao		BRS
2	K. V. P. Ramachandra Rao		INC	09-Apr-2020	K. R. Suresh Reddy		BRS

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP^[23]
1	Prabhakar Kore	BJP	25-Jun-2020	Ashok Gasti	BJP
2	B. K. Hariprasad	INC	25-Jun-2020	Eranna Kadadi	BJP
3	Rajeev Gowda	INC	25-Jun-2020	Mallikarjun Kharge	INC
4	D. Kupendra Reddy	JD(S)	25-Jun-2020	H. D. Deve Gowda	JD(S)

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP
1	Ram Gopal Yadav	SP	25-Nov-2020	Ram Gopal Yadav	SP
2	Ravi Prakash Verma		25-Nov-2020	Seema Dwivedi	BJP
3	Chandrapal Singh Yadav		25-Nov-2020	Hardwar Dubey
4	Javed Ali Khan		25-Nov-2020	Brij Lal
5	Hardeep Singh Puri	BJP	25-Nov-2020	Hardeep Singh Puri
6	Arun Singh		25-Nov-2020	Arun Singh
7	Neeraj Shekhar		25-Nov-2020	Neeraj Shekhar
8	P. L. Punia	INC	25-Nov-2020	Geeta Shakya
9	Veer Singh	BSP	25-Nov-2020	B. L. Verma
10	Rajaram	BSP	25-Nov-2020	Ramji Gautam	BSP

#	Former MP	Party		Date of Vacancy	Elected MP	Party		Term start	Term end
1	Beni Prasad Verma		SP	27-Mar-2020	Jai Prakash Nishad		BJP	17-Aug-2020	04-Jul-2022
2	Amar Singh		IND	01-Aug-2020	Syed Zafar Islam		BJP	11-Sep-2020	04-Jul-2022

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