2012 Rajya Sabha elections

2012 Rajya Sabha elections

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(of 228 seats) to the Rajya Sabha
First party Second party   Leader Manmohan Singh Arun Jaitley Party INC BJP

Rajya Sabha elections were held on various dates in 2012, to elect members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber. The elections were held in January to elect respectively 3 members from NCT of Delhi, ^[1] one member from Sikkim, ^[2] and in March for 57 members from 15 States ^[3] for the Rajya Sabha and in June for three members from Kerala. ^[4]

The bye-elections to Council of States were also held from the States of Uttar Pradesh ^[4] and Maharashtra. ^[5]

January Elections

NCT of Delhi

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Karan Singh		Congress	Karan Singh		Congress	[6]
2	Janardan Dwivedi			Janardan Dwivedi
3	Parvez Hashmi			Parvez Hashmi

Sikkim

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	O. T. Lepcha		SDF	Hishey Lachungpa		SDF	[6]

March Elections

Andhra Pradesh

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Raashid Alvi		Congress	Chiranjeevi		Congress	[6] [7]
2	K. Keshava Rao			Renuka Chowdary
3	Dasari Narayana Rao [7]			Rapolu Ananda Bhaskar
4	G. Sanjeeva Reddy			P. Govardhan Reddy
5	M. V. Mysura Reddy		TDP	T.Devender Goud		TDP
6	Syed Azeez Pasha		CPI	C. M. Ramesh

Bihar

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Ravi Shankar Prasad		BJP	Ravi Shankar Prasad		BJP	[6]
2	Jabir Husain		RJD	Dharmendra Pradhan
3	Mahendra Prasad		JD(U)	Mahendra Prasad		JD(U)
4	Ali Anwar Ansari			Ali Anwar Ansari
5	Anil Kumar Sahani			Anil Kumar Sahani
6	Rajniti Prasad		RJD	Bashistha Narain Singh

Chhattisgarh

Sr No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Shreegopal Vyas [7]		BJP	Dr Bhushan Lal Jangde		BJP	[6]

Gujarat

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Arun Jaitley		BJP	Arun Jaitley		BJP	[6]
2	Vijay Rupani			Shankarbhai Vegad
3	Kanjibhai Patel			Mansukh L. Mandaviya
4	Praveen Rashtrapal		Congress	Praveen Rashtrapal		Congress

Haryana

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Shadi Lal Batra		Congress	Shadi Lal Batra		Congress	[6]

Himachal Pradesh

Sr No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Viplove Thakur		Congress	Jagat Prakash Nadda		BJP	[6]

Jharkhand

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	S. S. Ahluwalia		BJP	Sanjiv Kumar		JMM	[6]
2	Mabel Rebello		Congress	Pradeep Kumar Balmuchu		Congress	[6]

Karnataka

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Hema Malini		BJP	R Ramakrishna		BJP	[6]
2	K. B. Shanappa			Basavaraj Patil Sedam
3	K. Rahman Khan		Congress	K. Rahman Khan		Congress
4	Rajeev Chandrasekhar		Independent	Rajeev Chandrasekhar		Independent

Madhya Pradesh

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Kaptan Singh Solanki		BJP	Kaptan Singh Solanki		BJP	[6]
2	Anusuiya Uikey [7]			Najma Heptulla
3	Meghraj Jain			Faggan Singh Kulaste
4	Narayan Singh Kesari [7]			Thawar Chand Gehlot
5	Vikram Singh [7]			Satyavrat Chaturvedi		Congress

Maharashtra

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Balavant Apte [7]		BJP	Ajay Sancheti		BJP	[6]
2	Vilasrao Deshmukh		Congress	Vilasrao Deshmukh		Congress
3	Rajeev Shukla [7]			Rajeev Shukla
4	Govindrao Adik		NCP	Vandana Chavan		NCP
5	Ranjitsinh Mohite-Patil			D.P.Tripathi
6	Manohar Joshi [7]		SHS	Anil Desai		SHS

Odisha

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Kishore Kumar Mohanti		BJD	Dilip Tirkey		BJD	[6]
2	Rudra Narayan Pany		BJP	A V Swamy
3	Sushila Tiriya		Congress	Ananga Udaya Singh Deo

Rajasthan

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Abhishek Manu Singhvi		Congress	Abhishek Manu Singhvi		Congress	[6]
2	Narendra Budania			Narendra Budania
3	Ramdas Agarwal		BJP	Bhupender Yadav		BJP

Uttar Pradesh

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Kalraj Mishra		BJP	Jaya Bachchan		SP	[6]
2	Naresh Agrawal		SP	Naresh Agrawal
3	Veerpal Singh Yadav			Darshan Singh Yadav
4	Mahendra Mohan			Munvvar Saleem
5	Jai Prakash		BSP	Mayawati		BSP
6	Ganga Charan Rajput			Munquad Ali
7	Pramod Kureel			Brij Bhushan Tiwari		SP
8	Munkad			Kiranmay Nanda
9	Vinay Katiyar		BJP	Vinay Katiyar		BJP
10	Mahmood Madani		RLD	Rasheed Masood		Congress	Disq 19/09/2013

Uttarakhand

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Satyavrat Chaturvedi		INC	Mahendra Singh Mahra		INC	[6]

West Bengal

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Tapan Kumar Sen		CPM	Tapan Kumar Sen		CPM	[6]
2	Moinul Hassan			Md. Nadimul Haque		AITC
3	Saman Pathak	Vivek Gupta
4	R. C. Singh	Kunal Kumar Ghosh
5	Mukul Roy		AITC	Mukul Roy

June Election

Kerala

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	P. J. Kurien		Congress	P. J. Kurien		Congress	[6]
2	K. E. Ismail		CPI	Joy Abraham		KC(M)
3	P. R. Rajan		CPM	C.P. Narayanan		CPM

Bye-elections

The following bye-elections were held in the year 2012.

• The bye election was held, to fill the vacancy caused by death of Brij Bhushan Tiwari representing Uttar Pradesh. Alok Tiwari was elected unopposed on June 18, 2012, with the term till 2 April 2018.
• The bye election was held, to fill the vacancy caused by death of Vilasrao Deshmukh representing Maharashtra. Rajni Patil was elected unopposed on December 30, with the term till 2 April 2018.

Seat No	State	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Uttar Pradesh	Brij Bhushan Tiwari		SP	Alok Tiwari		SP	[6] [8]
2	Maharashtra	Vilasrao Deshmukh		INC	Rajni Patil		INC	[9]

References

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2. "Biennial Election to the Council of States from the State of Sikkim" (PDF). Election Commission of India new delhi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 January 2012. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
3. "Biennial Elections to the Council of States to fill the seats of members retiring in April, 2012" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 April 2014. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
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5. "Bye - Election to the Council of States from Maharashtra " (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 April 2014. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
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7. "Arjun, Bhardwaj, Shinde elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha". The Tribune. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
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