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Rajya Sabha elections were held in 2018 to elect the 65 retiring members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber. There were, as routine, three such elections held among relevant State and Union Territory legislators by single transferable vote (STV) and Open Ballot: on 16 January to elect 3 members from Delhi and 1 member from Sikkim; on 23 March to elect 58 members from 16 States; and lastly on 21 June to elect 3 members from Kerala. Being even-numbered, 2018 was a year in which about 30% of the State Legislature-elected 233-seat component of the body is elected. The other 12 seats of the body are appointed by the President.
Not as part of a six-yearly cycle, a by-election was held to elect 1 member from Kerala in March, which proved to be a re-election but as an independent member, of M. P. Veerendra Kumar, the only by-election of the year. [1]
The elections were held to elect 3 members from National Capital Territory of Delhi and 1 member from Sikkim. 3 members from the National Capital Territory of Delhi retired on 27 January 2018 and 1 member from Sikkim retired on 23 February 2018. Elections for 58 seats and a by-election for 1 seat were held on 23 March 2018. The election was held for 3 seats of Kerala on 21 June 2018.
State | Members retiring | Date of retirement |
Delhi | 3 | 27 January 2018 |
Sikkim | 1 | 23 February 2018 |
Andhra Pradesh | 3 | 2 April 2018 |
Bihar | 6 | 2 April 2018 |
Chhattisgarh | 1 | 2 April 2018 |
Gujarat | 4 | 2 April 2018 |
Haryana | 1 | 2 April 2018 |
Himachal Pradesh | 1 | 2 April 2018 |
Karnataka | 4 | 2 April 2018 |
Madhya Pradesh | 5 | 2 April 2018 |
Maharashtra | 6 | 2 April 2018 |
Telangana | 3 | 2 April 2018 |
Uttar Pradesh | 10 | 2 April 2018 |
Uttarakhand | 1 | 2 April 2018 |
West Bengal | 5 | 2 April 2018 |
Odisha | 3 | 3 April 2018 |
Rajasthan | 3 | 3 April 2018 |
Jharkhand | 2 | 3 May 2018 |
Kerala | 3 | 1 July 2018 |
Nominated | 4 | 14 July 2018 |
Delhi had an election for 3 Rajya Sabha seats on 16 January 2018 to replace members retiring on 27 January 2018.
Seat No | Former MP | Former Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Reference | ||
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1 | Karan Singh | INC | Sanjay Singh | AAP | |||
2 | Parvez Hashmi | Sushil Gupta | |||||
3 | Janardan Dwivedi | N. D. Gupta | |||||
Sikkim had an election for 1 Rajya Sabha seat on 16 January 2018 to replace member retiring on 23 February 2018.
Seat No | Former MP | Former Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Reference | ||
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1 | Hishey Lachungpa | SDF | Hishey Lachungpa | SDF | |||
From Andhra Pradesh State, 3 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018. [2]
Seat No | Former MP | Former Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Reference | ||
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1 | Tulla Devender Goud | TDP | C. M. Ramesh | TDP | [2] | ||
2 | Renuka Chowdhury | INC | Kanakamedala Ravindra Kumar | ||||
3 | Chiranjeevi | Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy | YSRCP |
From Bihar State, 6 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018. [3]
Seat No | Former MP | Former Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Reference | ||
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1 | Ravi Shankar Prasad | BJP | Ravi Shankar Prasad | BJP | [3] | ||
2 | Dharmendra Pradhan | Akhilesh Prasad Singh | INC | ||||
3 | Mahendra Prasad | JD(U) | Mahendra Prasad | JD(U) | |||
4 | Bashistha Narain Singh | Bashistha Narain Singh | |||||
5 | Anil Kumar Sahani | Ashfaque Karim | RJD | ||||
6 | Vacant (Ali Anwar) | Manoj Jha |
From Chhattisgarh State, 1 member is elected for the Rajya Sabha seat on 23 March 2018, to replace member retiring on 2 April 2018. [4]
Seat No | Former MP | Former Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Reference | ||
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1 | Bhushan Lal Jangde | BJP | Saroj Pandey | BJP | [5] [4] | ||
From Gujarat State, 4 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018. [6]
Seat No | Former MP | Former Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Reference | ||
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1 | Parshottam Rupala | BJP | Parshottam Rupala | BJP | [6] | ||
2 | Mansukh L. Mandaviya | Mansukh L. Mandaviya | |||||
3 | Arun Jaitley | Naranbhai Rathwa | INC | ||||
4 | Shankarbhai Vegad | Amee Yajnik | |||||
From Haryana State, 1 member is elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace member retiring on 2 April 2018. [7]
Seat No | Former MP | Former Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Reference | ||
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1 | Shadi Lal Batra | INC | D.P. Vats | BJP | [7] | ||
From Himachal Pradesh State, 1 member is elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace member retiring on 2 April 2018. [8]
Seat No | Former MP | Former Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Reference | ||
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1 | Jagat Prakash Nadda | BJP | Jagat Prakash Nadda | BJP | [8] [7] | ||
From Jharkhand State, 2 members are elected for the Rajya Sabha seats on 23 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 3 May 2018. [9]
Seat No | Former MP | Former Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Reference | ||
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1 | Sanjiv Kumar | JMM | Sameer Oraon | BJP | [9] [5] | ||
2 | Pradeep Kumar Balmuchu | INC | Dhiraj Prasad Sahu | INC | |||
From Karnataka State, 4 members are elected for the Rajya Sabha seats on 23 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018. [10]
Seat No | Former MP | Former Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Reference | ||
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1 | R Ramakrishna | BJP | Syed Naseer Hussain | INC | [5] [10] | ||
2 | Basavaraj Patil Sedam | L. Hanumanthaiah | |||||
3 | K. Rahman Khan | INC | G C Chandrasekhar | ||||
4 | Vacant (Rajeev Chandrasekhar) | Independent | Rajeev Chandrasekhar | BJP | |||
From Madhya Pradesh State, 5 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018. [11]
Seat No | Former MP | Former Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Reference | ||
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1 | Satyavrat Chaturvedi | INC | Rajmani Patel | INC | [11] | ||
2 | Meghraj Jain | BJP | Dharmendra Pradhan | BJP | |||
3 | Prakash Javadekar | Kailash Soni | |||||
4 | La Ganesan | Ajay Pratap Singh | |||||
5 | Thawar Chand Gehlot | Thawar Chand Gehlot |
From Maharashtra State, 6 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018. [12]
Seat No | Former MP | Former Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Reference | ||
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1 | Ajay Sancheti | BJP | Prakash Javadekar | BJP | [12] | ||
2 | D. P. Tripathi | NCP | Narayan Rane | ||||
3 | Rajeev Shukla | INC | V. Muraleedharan | ||||
4 | Rajni Patil | Kumar Ketkar | INC | ||||
5 | Vandana Chavan | NCP | Vandana Chavan | NCP | |||
6 | Anil Desai | SS | Anil Desai | SS |
From Odisha State, 3 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 3 April 2018. [13]
Seat No | Former MP | Former Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Reference | ||
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1 | Ananga Udaya Singh Deo | BJD | Prashanta Nanda | BJD | [13] | ||
2 | Dilip Tirkey | Achyuta Samanta | |||||
3 | A V Swamy | Independent | Soumya Ranjan Patnaik | ||||
From Rajasthan State, 3 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 3 April 2018. [14]
Seat No | Former MP | Former Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Reference | ||
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1 | Abhishek Singhvi | INC | Kirodi Lal Meena | BJP | [14] | ||
2 | Narendra Budania | Madan Lal Saini | |||||
3 | Bhupender Yadav | BJP | Bhupender Yadav | ||||
From Telangana State, 3 members are elected for the Rajya Sabha seats on 23 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018. [15]
Seat No | Former MP | Former Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Reference | ||
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1 | C. M. Ramesh | TDP | Joginapally Santosh Kumar | TRS | [5] [15] | ||
2 | Rapolu Ananda Bhaskar | INC | Badulgula Lingaiah Yadav | ||||
3 | Vacant (P. Govardhan Reddy) | Banda Prakash |
From Uttarakhand State, 1 member is elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace member retiring on 2 April 2018. [16]
Seat No | Former MP | Former Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Reference | ||
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1 | Mahendra Singh Mahra | INC | Anil Baluni | BJP | [16] | ||
From Uttar Pradesh State, 10 members are elected for the Rajya Sabha seats on 23 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018. [17]
Seat No | Previous MP | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Reference | ||
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1 | Jaya Bachchan | SP | Jaya Bachchan | SP | [5] [17] | ||
2 | Naresh Chandra Agrawal | Arun Jaitley | BJP | ||||
3 | Alok Tiwari | Anil Jain | |||||
4 | Munvvar Saleem | Ashok Bajpai | |||||
5 | Darshan Singh Yadav | Harnath Singh Yadav | |||||
6 | Kiranmay Nanda | Anil Agrawal | |||||
7 | Munquad Ali | BSP | Sakal Deep Rajbhar | ||||
8 | Vacant (Mayawati) | Kanta Kardam | |||||
9 | Pramod Tiwari | INC | G. V. L. Narasimha Rao | ||||
10 | Vinay Katiyar | BJP | Vijaypal Singh Tomar | ||||
From West Bengal State, 5 members are elected for the Rajya Sabha seats on 23 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.
Seat No | Previous MP | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Reference | ||
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1 | Tapan Kumar Sen | CPI(M) | Abhishek Singhvi | INC | [5] | ||
2 | Nadimul Haque | AITC | Nadimul Haque | AITC | |||
3 | Vivek Gupta | Abir Biswas | |||||
4 | Kunal Kumar Ghosh | Santunu Sen | |||||
5 | Vacant (Mukul Roy) | Subhasish Chakraborty | |||||
From Kerala State, 3 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 14 June 2018, to replace members retiring on 1 July 2018.
Seat No | Former MP | Former Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Reference | ||
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1 | C.P. Narayanan | CPI(M) | Elamaram Kareem | CPI(M) | [18] | ||
2 | P. J. Kurien | INC | Binoy Viswam | CPI | |||
3 | Joy Abraham | KC(M) | Jose K. Mani | KC(M) |
Seat No | Former MP | Former Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Reference | ||
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1 | Anu Aga | Nominated | Raghunath Mohapatra | BJP | [19] | ||
2 | K. Parasaran | Nominated | Sonal Mansingh | BJP | |||
3 | Rekha | Nominated | Ram Shakal | BJP | |||
4 | Sachin Tendulkar | Nominated | Rakesh Sinha | BJP |
In addition to scheduled elections, unforeseen vacancies, caused by members' resignation, death or disqualification, may also be filled via By-elections.
S.No | Former MP | Party | Date of Vacancy | Elected MP | Party | Date of appointment | Date of retirement | ||
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1 | Manohar Parrikar | BJP | 2 September 2017 | Hardeep Singh Puri | BJP | 9 January 2018 | 25 November 2020 | ||
S.No | Former MP | Party | Date of Vacancy | Elected MP | Party | Date of appointment | Date of retirement | ||
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1 | M. P. Veerendra Kumar | Janata Dal (United) | 20 December 2017 | M. P. Veerendra Kumar | IND | 24 March 2018 | 2 April 2022 |
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