2026 Rajya Sabha elections

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The 2026 Rajya Sabha elections will be held as part of a routine six-year cycle of the upper house of the Parliament of India from 16 March to November 2026 to elect 72 of its 245 members, of which the states through their legislators elect 233, and the remaining 12 are appointed by the President.[1][2]

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2026 Rajya Sabha elections
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74[a] of the 233[b] elected seats in the Rajya Sabha
123[c] total seats needed for a majority
 
Leader J. P. Nadda Mallikarjun Kharge
Party BJP INC
Alliance NDA INDIA
Leader since 24 June 2024 16 February 2021
Current seats 111[d] 30
Current Alliance seats 137[e] 62
Incumbent Majority

National Democratic Alliance[f]


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Electoral system

MPs are elected through indirect election by the members of the State legislative assemblies using the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote. Each voter (MLA) ranks candidates in the order of preference (marking 1, 2, 3 and so on) under an open ballot system. Candidates have to reach a specific quota of votes in order to win a seat.[3]

For a single-seat election, each ballot is valued at one. When multiple seats are filled, the ballot value is set to one hundred.[4]

A candidate is elected unopposed when the number of candidates matches the number of available seats after nominations and withdrawals period.[5]

Schedule

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Poll event March election[2] June election[6]
Date of Notification 26 February 2026 1 June 2026
Last date for filing nomination 5 March 2026 8 June 2026
Scrutiny of nomination 6 March 2026 9 June 2026
Last date for withdrawal of nomination 9 March 2026 11 June 2026
Date of Poll (if necessary) &
Declaration of Result		 16 March 2026 18 June 2026
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Results

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Alliance/ Party Seats Before Seats After +/–
NDA Bharatiya Janata Party 30 24
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 2 1
Janata Dal (United) 2 2
Janata Dal (Secular) 1
Nationalist Congress Party 1 2
National People's Party 1 1
Rashtriya Lok Morcha 1 1
Republican Party of India (Athawale) 1 1
Telugu Desam Party 1 3
Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) 1
Janasena Party 0 1
Pattali Makkal Katchi 0 1
Shiv Sena 0 1
Independent (Dilip Ray) 0 1
Total 43 39
INDIA Indian National Congress 8 11
All India Trinamool Congress 7 4
Nationalist Congress Party - Sharadchandra Pawar 2 1
Rashtriya Janata Dal 2
Assam Jatiya Parishad 1
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 1
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha 1[g]
Samajwadi Party 1
Shiv Sena (UBT) 1
Total 24 16
Others Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 4 2
Biju Janata Dal 3 1
Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party 3
Bahujan Samaj Party 1
Mizo National Front 1
Telangana Rashtra Samithi 1
Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam 0 1
United People's Party Liberal 0 1
Zoram People's Movement 0 1
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Members Retiring and Elected

March Election

Elections were held in Bihar, Haryana & Odisha to elect those states' Rajya Sabha MPs on 16 March 2026. For the rest of the states, MPs were elected unopposed as the number of candidates matched the number of available seats after the nomination and withdrawal period.[7]

Assam

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1 Bhubaneshwar Kalita BJP 9-Apr-2026 Jogen Mohan BJP
2 Rameswar Teli Terash Gowalla
3 Ajit Kumar Bhuyan AJP Pramod Boro UPPL
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Bihar

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1 Harivansh Narayan Singh JD(U) 9-Apr-2026 Nitish Kumar JD(U)
2 Ram Nath Thakur Ram Nath Thakur
3 Prem Chand Gupta RJD Nitin Nabin BJP
4 Amarendra Dhari Singh Shivesh Kumar
5 Upendra Kushwaha RLM Upendra Kushwaha RLM
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Chhattisgarh

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1 K. T. S. Tulsi INC 9-Apr-2026 Laxmi Verma BJP
2 Phulo Devi Netam Phulo Devi Netam INC
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Haryana

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1 Kiran Chaudhary BJP 9-Apr-2026 Sanjay Bhatia BJP
2 Ram Chander Jangra Karamvir Singh Boudh INC
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Himachal Pradesh

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1 Indu Goswami BJP 9-Apr-2026 Anurag Sharma INC
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Maharashtra

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1 Dhairyashil Patil BJP 2-Apr-2026 Vinod Tawde BJP
2 Bhagwat Karad Ramrao Wadkute
3 Rajani Patil INC Maya Ivnate
4 Priyanka Chaturvedi SS(UBT) Jyoti Waghmare SHS
5 Ramdas Athawale RPI(A) Ramdas Athawale RPI(A)
6 Fouzia Khan NCP-SP Parth Pawar NCP
7 Sharad Pawar Sharad Pawar NCP-SP
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Odisha

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1 Mamata Mohanta BJP 2-Apr-2026 Manmohan Samal BJP
2 Sujeet Kumar Sujeet Kumar
3 Munna Khan BJD Santrupt Misra BJD
4 Niranjan Bishi Dilip Ray IND
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Tamil Nadu

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1 Tiruchi Siva DMK 2-Apr-2026 Tiruchi Siva DMK
2 N. R. Elango J. Constantine Ravindran
3 P. Selvarasu M. Christopher Tilak INC
4 Kanimozhi N. V. N. Somu L. K. Sudhish DMDK
5 M. Thambidurai AIADMK M. Thambidurai AIADMK
6 G. K. Vasan TMC(M) Anbumani Ramadoss PMK
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Telangana

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1 Abhishek Manu Singhvi INC 9-Apr-2026 Abhishek Manu Singhvi INC
2 K. R. Suresh Reddy BRS Vem Narender Reddy
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West Bengal

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1 Subrata Bakshi AITC 2-Apr-2026 Babul Supriyo AITC
2 Ritabrata Banerjee Koel Mallick
3 Mausam Noor[h] Menaka Guruswamy
4 Saket Gokhale Rajeev Kumar
5 Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya CPI(M) Rahul Sinha BJP
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June Election

Andhra Pradesh

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1 Sana Satish TDP 21-Jun-2026 Sana Satish TDP
2 Alla Ayodhya Rami Reddy YSRCP Bhashyam Rama Krishna
3 Pilli Subhash Chandra Bose Chintakayala Vijay
4 Parimal Nathwani Lingamaneni Ramesh JSP
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Arunachal Pradesh

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1 Nabam Rebia BJP 23-Jun-2026 Tai Tagak BJP
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Gujarat

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1 Rambhai Mokariya BJP 21-Jun-2026 Rajubhai Shukla BJP
2 Ramilaben Bara Mukeshbhai Rathwa
3 Narhari Amin Mansingh Parmar
4 Shaktisinh Gohil INC Jitendra Kanzariya
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Jharkhand

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1 Vacant[i] Baidyanath Ram JMM
2 Deepak Prakash BJP 21-Jun-2026 Parimal Nathwani[9] IND
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Karnataka

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1 Iranna B. Kadadi BJP 25-Jun-2026 M. Nagaraja BJP
2 K. Narayan Pawan Khera INC
3 Mallikarjun Kharge INC Mallikarjun Kharge
4 H. D. Deve Gowda JD(S) Mansoor Ali Khan
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Madhya Pradesh

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1 George Kurian BJP 21-Jun-2026 Tarun Chugh BJP
2 Sumer Singh Solanki Rajneesh Agrawal
3 Digvijaya Singh INC Mahesh Kewat
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Manipur

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1 Leishemba Sanajaoba BJP 21-Jun-2026 Adhikarimayum Sharda Devi BJP
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Meghalaya

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1 Wanweiroy Kharlukhi NPP 21-Jun-2026 James Sangma NPP
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Mizoram

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1 K. Vanlalvena MNF 19-Jul-2026 K. Laltluangkima ZPM
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Rajasthan

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1 Rajendra Gehlot BJP 21-Jun-2026 Satish Poonia BJP
2 Ravneet Singh Bittu Alka Gurjar
3 Neeraj Dangi INC Neeraj Dangi INC
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November Election

Uttarakhand

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1 Naresh Bansal BJP 25-Nov-2026 BJP
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Uttar Pradesh

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1 Hardeep Singh Puri BJP 25-Nov-2026 BJP
2 Dinesh Sharma
3 Seema Dwivedi
4 Brij Lal
5 Arun Singh
6 Neeraj Shekhar
7 Geeta Shakya
8 B. L. Verma
9 Ram Gopal Yadav SP SP
10 Ramji Gautam BSP
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Nominated

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1 Ranjan Gogoi NOM 16-Mar-2026 Harivansh Narayan Singh NOM
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By-elections

Maharashtra

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# Previous MP Party Vacancy date Elected MP Party Term start Term End Reason for Vacancy
1 Sunetra Pawar NCP 6-May-2026 Rajendra Jain NCP 18-Jun-2026 4-Jul-2028 Elected to 15th Maharashtra Assembly
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Odisha

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1 Debashish Samantaray BJD 25-May-2026 Debashish Samantaray BJP 3-Apr-2030 Resignation
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Tamil Nadu

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# Previous MP Party Vacancy date Elected MP Party Term start Term end Reason for Vacancy
1 C. V. Shanmugam AIADMK 7-May-2026 Praveen Chakravarty INC 29-Jun-2028 Elected to 17th Tamil Nadu Assembly
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West Bengal

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# Previous MP Party Vacancy date Elected MP Party Term start Term end Reason for Vacancy
1 Sukhendu Sekhar Roy AITC 8-Jun-2026 BJP 18-Aug-2029 Resignation
2 Sushmita Dev 10-Jun-2026 2-Apr-2030
3 Prakash Chik Baraik 11-Jun-2026 18-Aug-2029
4 Koel Mallick 3-Apr-2032
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Notes

  1. [a]
    including 5 casual vacancies
  2. [b]
    excluding 12 nominated seats.
  3. [c]
    out of 245 (including 12 nominated seats.)
  4. [d]
    excluding 5 nominated members.
  5. [e]
    excluding 12 nominated members.
  6. [f]
    including the support of 12 nominated members
  7. [g]
    1 vacant seat (Shibu Soren's death)
  8. [h]
    Defected from TMC to INC in January 2026.[8]
  9. [i]
    Death of Shibu Soren

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