2024 Rajya Sabha elections

2024 Rajya Sabha elections
← 2023 January – December 2024 2025 →
84 of the 233 elected seats in the Rajya Sabha; 119 total seats needed for a majority
Majority before election; None;	Majority after; election ; National Democratic Alliance;

The 2024 Rajya Sabha elections were held as part of a routine six-year cycle of the upper house of the Parliament of India from January to December 2024, to elect 65 of its 245 members and 19 bye elections, of which the states through their legislators elect 233, and the remaining 12 are appointed by the President.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

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National Democratic Alliance secured majority in the Rajya Sabha for the first time since it assumed office in 2014, after winning 11 of the 12 bypolls held in August 2024.^[6]^[7]

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Alliance/ Party				Seats	+/–
Alliance/ Party					NDA	Bharatiya Janata Party	44	+7
	Nationalist Congress Party	3	+2
	Telugu Desam Party	2	+1
	Janata Dal (United)	1	-1
	Rashtriya Lok Morcha	1	+1
	Shiv Sena	1	+1
Total		52	+11
	INDIA		Indian National Congress	10	-3
			All India Trinamool Congress	5	0
			Aam Aadmi Party	3	0
			Indian Union Muslim League	2	+1
			Rashtriya Janata Dal	2	-1
			Samajwadi Party	2	+1
			Communist Party of India	1	0
			Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	1	+1
			Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)	0	-1
			Nationalist Congress Party – Sharadchandra Pawar	0	-1
			Communist Party of India (Marxist)	0	-1
		Total		26	-4
	Others		Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party	3	-1
			Biju Janata Dal	2	-2
			Bharat Rashtra Samithi	1	-3
			Sikkim Democratic Front	0	-1

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP^[11]		Term start
1	Sanjay Singh	AAP	27-Jan-2024	Sanjay Singh	AAP	28-Jan-2024
2	N. D. Gupta			N. D. Gupta
3	Sushil Gupta			Swati Maliwal

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP		Term start
1	Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy	YSRCP	02-Apr-2024	Y. V. Subba Reddy	YSRCP	03-Apr-2024
2	C. M. Ramesh	BJP		Meda Raghunadha Reddy
3	Kanakamedala Ravindra Kumar	TDP		Golla Babu Rao

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP		Term start
1	Sushil Modi	BJP	02-Apr-2024	Dharamshila Gupta	BJP	03-Apr-2024
2	Anil Hegde	JD(U)		Bhim Singh	BJP
3	Bashistha Narain Singh	JD(U)		Sanjay Kumar Jha	JD(U)
4	Akhilesh Prasad Singh	INC		Akhilesh Prasad Singh	INC
5	Ashfaque Karim	RJD		Sanjay Yadav	RJD
6	Manoj Jha	RJD		Manoj Jha	RJD

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP		Term start
1	Parshottam Rupala	BJP	02-Apr-2024	J. P. Nadda	BJP	03-Apr-2024
2	Mansukh Mandaviya	BJP		Govind Dholakia
3	Amee Yajnik	INC		Mayankbhai Nayak
4	Naranbhai Rathwa	INC		Jasvantsinh Parmar

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP		Term start
1	Syed Naseer Hussain	INC	02-Apr-2024	Syed Naseer Hussain	INC	03-Apr-2024
2	L. Hanumanthaiah			Ajay Maken
3	G. C. Chandrasekhar			G. C. Chandrasekhar
4	Rajeev Chandrasekhar	BJP		Narayana Bhandage	BJP

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP		Term start
1	L. Murugan	BJP	02-Apr-2024	L. Murugan	BJP	03-Apr-2024
2	Dharmendra Pradhan			Umesh Nath Maharaj
3	Kailash Soni			Maya Naroliya
4	Ajay Pratap Singh			Bansilal Gurjar
5	Rajmani Patel	INC		Ashok Singh	INC

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP		Term start
1	Prakash Javadekar	BJP	02-Apr-2024	Medha Kulkarni	BJP	03-Apr-2024
2	Narayan Rane			Ajit Gopchade
3	V. Muraleedharan			Ashok Chavan
4	Anil Desai	SS(UBT)		Milind Deora	SHS
5	Vandana Chavan	NCP(SP)		Praful Patel	NCP
6	Kumar Ketkar	INC		Chandrakant Handore	INC

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP		Term start
1	Badulgula Lingaiah Yadav	TRS	02-Apr-2024	Renuka Chowdhury	INC	03-Apr-2024
2	Joginapally Santosh Kumar			M. Anil Kumar Yadav	INC
3	Vaddiraju Ravi Chandra			Vaddiraju Ravi Chandra	BRS

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP		Term start
1	Sudhanshu Trivedi	BJP	02-Apr-2024	Sudhanshu Trivedi	BJP	03-Apr-2024
2	Kanta Kardam			Ratanjit Pratap Narain Singh
3	Ashok Bajpai			Chaudhary Tejveer Singh
4	Harnath Singh Yadav			Sadhana Singh
5	Anil Agrawal			Amarpal Maurya
6	Sakal Deep Rajbhar			Sangeeta Balwant
7	Anil Jain			Naveen Jain
8	G. V. L. Narasimha Rao			Sanjay Seth
9	Vijaypal Singh Tomar			Ramji Lal Suman	SP
10	Jaya Bachchan	SP		Jaya Bachchan	SP

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP ^[12]		Term start
1	Nadimul Haque	TMC	02-Apr-2024	Nadimul Haque	TMC	03-Apr-2024
2	Subhasish Chakraborty			Mamata Bala Thakur
3	Abir Biswas			Sagarika Ghose
4	Santunu Sen			Sushmita Dev
5	Abhishek Singhvi	INC		Samik Bhattacharya	BJP

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP		Term start
1	Amar Patnaik	BJD	03-Apr-2024	Debashish Samantaray	BJD	04-Apr-2024
2	Prashanta Nanda	BJD		Subhashish Khuntia	BJD
3	Ashwini Vaishnaw	BJP		Ashwini Vaishnaw	BJP

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP		Term start
1	Manmohan Singh	INC	03-Apr-2024	Sonia Gandhi^[13]	INC	04-Apr-2024
2	Bhupender Yadav	BJP	03-Apr-2024	Chunnilal Garasiya^[13]	BJP
3	Vacant (Kirodi Lal Meena)			Madan Rathore^[13]	BJP

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Term start
1	Sameer Oraon		BJP	03-May-2024	Pradeep Verma		BJP	04-May-2024
2	Dhiraj Prasad Sahu		INC	03-May-2024	Sarfaraz Ahmad		JMM	04-May-2024

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP		Term start
1	Binoy Viswam	CPI	01-Jul-2024	P. P. Suneer	CPI	02-Jul-2024
2	Jose K. Mani	KCM	01-Jul-2024	Jose K. Mani	KCM	02-Jul-2024
3	Elamaram Kareem	CPI(M)	01-Jul-2024	Haris Beeran	IUML	02-Jul-2024

#	Nominated MP	Affiliation		Field	Term start	Nominated by
1	Satnam Singh Sandhu		BJP	Education	31-Jan-2024	Droupadi Murmu
2	Sudha Murty		NOM	Social work and Education	08-Mar-2024	Droupadi Murmu

#	Previous MP		Vacancy date	Elected MP		Term start	Term end	Reason for Vacancy
1	Mopidevi Venkataramana	YSRCP	29-Aug-2024	Sana Satish	TDP	13-Dec-2024	21-Jun-2026	Resignation
2	R. Krishnaiah			R. Krishnaiah	BJP		21-Jun-2028	Resignation
2	Beeda Masthan Rao			Beeda Masthan Rao	TDP		21-Jun-2028	Resignation

#	Previous MP	Party		Vacancy date	Elected MP	Party		Term start	Term end	Reason for Vacancy
1	Kamakhya Prasad Tasa		BJP	05-Jun-2024	Mission Ranjan Das		BJP	28-Aug-2024	14-Jun-2025	Elected to 18th Lok Sabha
2	Sarbananda Sonowal		BJP	05-Jun-2024	Rameswar Teli		BJP	28-Aug-2024	09-Apr-2026	Elected to 18th Lok Sabha

#	Previous MP	Party		Vacancy date	Elected MP	Party		Term start	Term end	Reason for Vacancy
1	Vivek Thakur		BJP	05-Jun-2024	Upendra Kushwaha		RLM	28-Aug-2024	09-Apr-2026	Elected to 18th Lok Sabha
2	Misa Bharti		RJD	05-Jun-2024	Manan Kumar Mishra		BJP	28-Aug-2024	07-Jul-2028	Elected to 18th Lok Sabha

#	Previous MP	Party		Vacancy date	Elected MP	Party		Term start	Term end	Reason for Vacancy
1	Deepender Singh Hooda		INC	05-Jun-2024	Kiran Chaudhary		BJP	28-Aug-2024	09-Apr-2026	Elected to 18th Lok Sabha
2	Krishan Lal Panwar		BJP	15-Oct-2024	Rekha Sharma		BJP	13-Dec-2024	01-Aug-2028	Elected to 15th Haryana Assembly

#	Previous MP		Vacancy date	Elected MP		Term start	Term end	Reason for Vacancy
1	Praful Patel	NCP	27-Feb-2024	Sunetra Pawar	NCP	21-Jun-2024	04-Jul-2028	Resignation
2	Udayanraje Bhosale	BJP	05-Jun-2024	Dhairyashil Patil	BJP	28-Aug-2024	02-Apr-2026	Elected to 18th Lok Sabha
3	Piyush Goyal	BJP	05-Jun-2024	Nitin Patil	NCP	28-Aug-2024	04-Jul-2028	Elected to 18th Lok Sabha

#	Previous MP	Party		Vacancy date	Elected MP	Party		Term start	Term end	Reason for Vacancy
1	Mamata Mohanta		BJD	31-Jul-2024	Mamata Mohanta		BJP	28-Aug-2024	02-Apr-2026	Resignation
2	Sujeet Kumar		BJD	06-Sep-2024	Sujeet Kumar		BJP	13-Dec-2024	02-Apr-2026	Resignation

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