2026 Rajya Sabha elections
Elections for the upper house of Indian Parliament
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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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March – November 2026
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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
| Poll event | March election[2] |
|---|---|
| Date of Notification | 26 February 2026 |
| Last date for filing nomination | 5 March 2026 |
| Scrutiny of nomination | 6 March 2026 |
| Last date for withdrawal of nomination | 9 March 2026 |
| Date of Poll (if necessary) & Declaration of Result | 16 March 2026 |
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.[6]
Assam
| # | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bhubaneshwar Kalita | BJP | 9-Apr-2026 | Jogen Mohan | BJP | ||
| 2 | Rameswar Teli | Terash Gowalla | |||||
| 3 | Ajit Kumar Bhuyan | AJP | Pramod Boro | UPPL | |||
Bihar
| # | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
Chhattisgarh
| # | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | K. T. S. Tulsi | INC | 9-Apr-2026 | Laxmi Verma | BJP | ||
| 2 | Phulo Devi Netam | Phulo Devi Netam | INC | ||||
Haryana
| # | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kiran Chaudhary | BJP | 9-Apr-2026 | Sanjay Bhatia | BJP | ||
| 2 | Ram Chander Jangra | Karamvir Singh Boudh | INC | ||||
Himachal Pradesh
| # | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indu Goswami | BJP | 9-Apr-2026 | Anurag Sharma | INC | ||
Maharashtra
| # | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||||
Odisha
| # | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||||
Tamil Nadu
| # | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
Telangana
| # | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Abhishek Manu Singhvi | INC | 9-Apr-2026 | Abhishek Manu Singhvi | INC | ||
| 2 | K. R. Suresh Reddy | BRS | Vem Narender Reddy | ||||
West Bengal
| # | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Subrata Bakshi | AITC | 2-Apr-2026 | Babul Supriyo | AITC | ||
| 2 | Ritabrata Banerjee | Koel Mallick | |||||
| 3 | Mausam Noor[g] | Menaka Guruswamy | |||||
| 4 | Saket Gokhale | Rajeev Kumar | |||||
| 5 | Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya | CPI(M) | Rahul Sinha | BJP | |||
May Election
Andhra Pradesh
| # | Previous MP | Party | Alliance | Term end | Elected MP | Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sana Satish | TDP | Kutami (NDA) |
21-Jun-2026 | Kutami | ||||
| 2 | Alla Ayodhya Rami Reddy | YSRCP | None | ||||||
| 3 | Pilli Subhash Chandra Bose | ||||||||
| 4 | Parimal Nathwani | ||||||||
Arunachal Pradesh
| # | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nabam Rebia | BJP | 23-Jun-2026 | BJP | |||
Gujarat
| # | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rambhai Mokariya | BJP | 21-Jun-2026 | BJP | |||
| 2 | Ramilaben Bara | ||||||
| 3 | Narhari Amin | ||||||
| 4 | Shaktisinh Gohil | INC | |||||
Jharkhand
| # | Previous MP | Party | Alliance | Term end | Elected MP | Party | Alliance | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vacant (Shibu Soren) |
MGB (INDIA) | |||||||||
| 2 | Deepak Prakash | BJP | NDA | 21-Jun-2026 | |||||||
Karnataka
| # | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iranna B. Kadadi | BJP | 25-Jun-2026 | BJP | |||
| 2 | K. Narayan | INC | |||||
| 3 | Mallikarjun Kharge | INC | |||||
| 4 | H. D. Deve Gowda | JD(S) | |||||
Madhya Pradesh
| # | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | George Kurian | BJP | 21-Jun-2026 | BJP | |||
| 2 | Sumer Singh Solanki | ||||||
| 3 | Digvijaya Singh | INC | INC | ||||
Manipur
| # | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leishemba Sanajaoba | BJP | 21-Jun-2026 | BJP | |||
Meghalaya
| # | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wanweiroy Kharlukhi | NPP | 21-Jun-2026 | NPP | |||
Mizoram
| # | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | K. Vanlalvena | MNF | 19-Jul-2026 | ZPM | |||
Rajasthan
| # | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rajendra Gehlot | BJP | 21-Jun-2026 | BJP | |||
| 2 | Ravneet Singh Bittu | ||||||
| 3 | Neeraj Dangi | INC | INC | ||||
November Election
Uttarakhand
| # | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Naresh Bansal | BJP | 25-Nov-2026 | BJP | |||
Uttar Pradesh
| # | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | SP | |||||
| 9 | Ram Gopal Yadav | SP | |||||
| 10 | Ramji Gautam | BSP | [h] | ||||
Nominated
| # | Previous MP | Party | Term end | Nominated MP | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ranjan Gogoi | NOM | 16-Mar-2026 | Harivansh Narayan Singh | NOM | ||
By-elections
Maharashtra
| # | Previous MP | Party | Alliance | Vacancy date | Elected MP | Party | Alliance | Term start | Term end | Reason for Vacancy | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sunetra Pawar | NCP | MY (NDA) |
6-May-2026 | MY (NDA) |
04-Jul-2028 | Elected to 15th Maharashtra Assembly | |||||||
Tamil Nadu
| # | Previous MP | Party | Vacancy date | Elected MP | Party | Term start | Term end | Reason for Vacancy | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | C. V. Shanmugam | AIADMK | 7-May-2026 | TBD | TBD | 29-Jun-2028 | Elected to 17th Tamil Nadu Assembly | |||
Notes
- including 2 casual vacancies
- excluding 12 nominated seats.
- out of 245 (including 12 nominated seats.)
- excluding 5 nominated members.
- excluding 12 nominated members.
- including the support of 12 nominated members
- Quota = 403 ÷ (10+1) + 1 = 37 votes. NDA with 294 MLAs could win 7 seats and INDIA with 104 MLAs could win 2 seats; the remaining votes are NDA 35, INDIA 30 and Others 3. Since none reach 37, the result of the 10th seat depends on the stand of the 3 Other MLAs (JD(L)-2, BSP-1) and three by-elections.