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Rajya Sabha elections were held throughout 2022, to elect new members to replace those retiring from the Rajya Sabha, the Indian Parliament's upper house.[1][2][3]

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2022 Rajya Sabha elections
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April – September 2022
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74[a] of the 233[b] elected seats in the Rajya Sabha
122[c] total seats needed for a majority
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Leader Piyush Goyal Mallikarjun Kharge
Party BJP INC
Alliance NDA UPA
Leader since 14 July 2021 16 February 2021
Seats before 88[d] 34
Seats after 88[e] 31
Seat change Steady Decrease 3
Alliance seats before 103[f] 55
Alliance seats after 101[g] 54
Seat change Decrease 2 Decrease 1
Majority before election

None

 Majority after
election

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Results

More information Alliance/ Party, Seats ...
Alliance/ Party Seats +/–
NDA Bharatiya Janata Party 27 0
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 2 -1
United People's Party Liberal 1 +1
Independent (Kartikeya Sharma) 1 +1
Naga People's Front 0 -1
Shiromani Akali Dal (Sanyukt) 0 -1
Independent (Subhash Chandra) 0 -1
Total 31 -2
UPA Indian National Congress 10 -3
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 3 0
Rashtriya Janata Dal 2 +1
Janata Dal (United) 2 0
Nationalist Congress Party 1 0
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha 1 +1
Total 19 -1
Others Aam Aadmi Party 7 +7
Biju Janata Dal 4 0
Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party 4 +3
Telangana Rashtra Samithi 3 0
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 1 -1
Communist Party of India 1 +1
Rashtriya Lok Dal 1 +1
Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) 1 0
Samajwadi Party 1 -2
Independent (Kapil Sibal) 1 +1
Loktantrik Janata Dal 0 -1
Shiromani Akali Dal 0 -2
Bahujan Samaj Party 0 -2
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Members retiring and elected

Note:

  • Listed according to date of retirement

Assam

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No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Ripun Bora INC 02-Apr-2022 Rwngwra Narzary UPPL [4]
2 Ranee Narah INC 02-Apr-2022 Pabitra Margherita BJP
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Himachal Pradesh

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No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Anand Sharma INC 02-Apr-2022 Sikander Kumar BJP [5]
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Kerala

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No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 A. K. Antony INC 02-Apr-2022 Jebi Mather INC [6]
2 K. Somaprasad CPI(M) 02-Apr-2022 A. A. Rahim CPI(M)
3 M. V. Shreyams Kumar LJD 02-Apr-2022 P. Santhosh Kumar CPI
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Nagaland

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No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 K. G. Kenye NPF 02-Apr-2022 Phangnon Konyak BJP [7]
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Tripura

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No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Jharna Das CPI(M) 02-Apr-2022 Manik Saha BJP [8]
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Punjab

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No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa SAD(S) 9 April 2022 Harbhajan Singh AAP [9]
2 Naresh Gujral SAD Raghav Chadha
3 Pratap Singh Bajwa INC Sandeep Pathak
4 Shamsher Singh Dullo Ashok Mittal
5 Shwait Malik BJP Sanjeev Arora
6 Balwinder Singh Bhunder SAD 4 July 2022 Balbir Singh Seechewal
7 Ambika Soni INC Vikramjit Singh Sahney
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Andhra Pradesh

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No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party
1 V. Vijayasai Reddy YSRCP 21 June 2022 V. Vijayasai Reddy YSRCP [10]
2 Suresh Prabhu BJP 21 June 2022 R. Krishnaiah
3 Sujana Chowdary 21 June 2022 S. Niranjan Reddy
4 T. G. Venkatesh 21 June 2022 Beeda Masthan Rao
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Telangana

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No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 V. Lakshmikantha Rao TRS 21 June 2022 B. Parthasaradhi Reddy TRS [11]
2 D. Srinivas 21 June 2022 D. Damodar Rao
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Chhattisgarh

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No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Ramvichar Netam BJP 29-Jun-2022 Rajeev Shukla INC [12]
2 Chhaya Verma INC 29-Jun-2022 Ranjeet Ranjan
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Madhya Pradesh

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No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 M. J. Akbar BJP 29-Jun-2022 Kavita Patidar BJP [13]
2 Sampatiya Uikey 29-Jun-2022 Sumitra Valmiki
3 Vivek Tankha INC 29-Jun-2022 Vivek Tankha INC
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Tamil Nadu

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No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 R. S. Bharathi DMK 29-Jun-2022 R. Girirajan DMK [14]
2 T. K. S. Elangovan 29-Jun-2022 S. Kalyanasundaram
3 K. R. N. Rajeshkumar 29-Jun-2022 K. R. N. Rajeshkumar
4 A. Navaneethakrishnan AIADMK 29-Jun-2022 P. Chidambaram INC
5 S. R. Balasubramoniyan 29-Jun-2022 C. V. Shanmugam AIADMK
6 A. Vijayakumar 29-Jun-2022 R. Dharmar
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Karnataka

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No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Nirmala Sitharaman BJP 30-Jun-2022 Nirmala Sitharaman BJP [15]
2 K. C. Ramamurthy 30-Jun-2022 Jaggesh
3 Vacant
(Oscar Fernandes)		 Lehar Singh Siroya
4 Jairam Ramesh INC 30-Jun-2022 Jairam Ramesh INC
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Odisha

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No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Sasmit Patra BJD 1 July 2022 Sasmit Patra BJD [16]
2 Prasanna Acharya Manas Ranjan Mangaraj
3 N. Bhaskar Rao Sulata Deo
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Maharashtra

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No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Piyush Goyal BJP 04-Jul-2022 Piyush Goyal BJP [17]
2 Vinay Sahasrabuddhe 04-Jul-2022 Anil Sukhdevrao Bonde
3 Vikas Mahatme 04-Jul-2022 Dhananjay Mahadik
4 Praful Patel NCP 04-Jul-2022 Praful Patel NCP
5 P. Chidambaram INC 04-Jul-2022 Imran Pratapgarhi INC
6 Sanjay Raut SS 04-Jul-2022 Sanjay Raut SS
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Rajasthan

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No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Om Prakash Mathur BJP 04-Jul-2022 Randeep Surjewala INC [18]
2 Ram Kumar Verma 04-Jul-2022 Mukul Wasnik
3 Harshvardhan Singh Dungarpur 04-Jul-2022 Pramod Tiwari
4 Alphons Kannanthanam 04-Jul-2022 Ghanshyam Tiwari BJP
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Uttar Pradesh

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No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Surendra Singh Nagar BJP 04-Jul-2022 Surendra Singh Nagar BJP [19]
2 Shiv Pratap Shukla 04-Jul-2022 Laxmikant Bajpai
3 Sanjay Seth 04-Jul-2022 Radha Mohan Das Agarwal
4 Jai Prakash Nishad 04-Jul-2022 Baburam Nishad
5 Syed Zafar Islam 04-Jul-2022 Sangeeta Yadav
6 Rewati Raman Singh SP 04-Jul-2022 Darshana Singh
7 Sukhram Singh Yadav 04-Jul-2022 Mithlesh Kumar
8 Vishambhar Prasad Nishad 04-Jul-2022 K. Laxman
9 Satish Chandra Mishra BSP 04-Jul-2022 Jayant Chaudhary RLD
10 Ashok Siddharth 04-Jul-2022 Javed Ali Khan SP
11 Kapil Sibal INC 04-Jul-2022 Kapil Sibal IND
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Uttarakhand

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No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Pradeep Tamta INC 04-Jul-2022 Kalpana Saini BJP [20]
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Bihar

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No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Gopal Narayan Singh BJP 07-Jul-2022 Shambhu Sharan Patel BJP [21]
2 Satish Chandra Dubey 07-Jul-2022 Satish Chandra Dubey
3 Ramchandra Prasad Singh JD(U) 07-Jul-2022 Khiru Mahto JD(U)
4 Vacant
(Sharad Yadav)		 Faiyaz Ahmad RJD
5 Misa Bharti RJD 07-Jul-2022 Misa Bharti
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Jharkhand

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No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi BJP 07-Jul-2022 Aditya Sahu BJP [22]
2 Mahesh Poddar BJP 07-Jul-2022 Mahua Maji JMM
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Haryana

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No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Dushyant Kumar Gautam BJP 01-Aug-2022 Krishan Lal Panwar BJP [23]
2 Subhash Chandra IND 01-Aug-2022 Kartikeya Sharma IND
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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 26 December 2021, Mahendra Prasad died
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No Former MP Party Date of vacancy Elected MP Party Date of appointment Date of retirement Ref.
1 Mahendra Prasad JD(U) 26 December 2021 Anil Hegde JD(U) 30 May 2022 2 April 2024 [24]
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Telangana

  • On 4 December 2021, Banda Prakash resigned
More information No, Former MP ...
No Former MP Party Date of vacancy Elected MP Party Date of appointment Date of retirement Ref.
1 Banda Prakash TRS 4 December 2021 Vaddiraju Ravi Chandra TRS 25 May 2022 2 April 2024 [25]
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Odisha

  • On 27 April 2022, Subhash Chandra Singh was elected the Mayor of Cuttack.
More information No, Former MP ...
No Former MP Party Date of vacancy Elected MP Party Date of appointment Date of retirement Ref.
1 Subhash Chandra Singh BJD 27 April 2022 Niranjan Bishi BJD 13 June 2022 2 April 2026 [26]
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Tripura

  • On 26 June 2022 Manik Saha was elected to the Tripura Legislative Assembly.
More information No, Former MP ...
No Former MP Party Date of vacancy Elected MP Party Date of appointment Date of retirement Ref.
1 Manik Saha BJP 26 June 2022 Biplab Deb BJP 22 September 2022 2 April 2028 [27]
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Nominations

Nominated members

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No Previous MP Party Term end Nominated MP Party Date of appointment Ref.
1 Narendra Jadhav Nominated 24-Apr-2022 Ilaiyaraaja Nominated 06-Jul-2022 [28]
2 Mary Kom Nominated 24-Apr-2022 P. T. Usha Nominated 06-Jul-2022
3 Roopa Ganguly Nominated (BJP) 24-Apr-2022 V. Vijayendra Prasad Nominated 06-Jul-2022
4 Swapan Dasgupta Nominated (BJP) 24-Apr-2022 Veerendra Heggade Nominated 06-Jul-2022
5 Suresh Gopi Nominated (BJP) 24-Apr-2022 Ghulam Ali Khatana Nominated (BJP) 10-Sep-2022 [29]
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See also

Notes

  1. [a]
    Including 4 casual vacancies
  2. [b]
    excluding 12 nominated seats
  3. [c]
    out of 243 (excluding 2 vacancies and including 12 nominated seats)
  4. [d]
    excluding 9 nominated members
  5. [e]
    excluding 7 nominated members
  6. [f]
    excluding 12 nominated members
  7. [g]
    excluding 10 nominated members

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