2018 Rajya Sabha elections

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2018 Rajya Sabha elections
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Leader Arun Jaitley Ghulam Nabi Azad
Party BJP INC
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Leader since2 June 20148 June 2014
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Seats after7350
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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.

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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]

Elections

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.

StateMembers retiringDate of retirement
Delhi 327 January 2018
Sikkim 123 February 2018
Andhra Pradesh 32 April 2018
Bihar 62 April 2018
Chhattisgarh 12 April 2018
Gujarat 42 April 2018
Haryana 12 April 2018
Himachal Pradesh 12 April 2018
Karnataka 42 April 2018
Madhya Pradesh 52 April 2018
Maharashtra 62 April 2018
Telangana 32 April 2018
Uttar Pradesh 102 April 2018
Uttarakhand 12 April 2018
West Bengal 52 April 2018
Odisha 33 April 2018
Rajasthan 33 April 2018
Jharkhand 23 May 2018
Kerala 31 July 2018
Nominated 414 July 2018

Members Elected

National Capital Territory of Delhi

Delhi had an election for 3 Rajya Sabha seats on 16 January 2018 to replace members retiring on 27 January 2018.

Seat NoFormer MPFormer PartyElected MPElected PartyReference
1 Karan Singh INC Sanjay Singh AAP [2]
2 Parvez Hashmi Sushil Gupta
3 Janardan Dwivedi N. D. Gupta

Sikkim

Sikkim had an election for 1 Rajya Sabha seat on 16 January 2018 to replace member retiring on 23 February 2018.

Seat NoFormer MPFormer PartyElected MPElected PartyReference
1 Hishey Lachungpa SDF Hishey Lachungpa SDF

Andhra Pradesh

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. [3]

Seat NoFormer MPFormer PartyElected MPElected PartyReference
1 Tulla Devender Goud TDP C. M. Ramesh TDP [3]
2 Renuka Chowdhury INC Kanakamedala Ravindra Kumar
3 Chiranjeevi Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy YSRCP

Bihar

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. [4]

Seat NoFormer MPFormer PartyElected MPElected PartyReference
1 Ravi Shankar Prasad BJP Ravi Shankar Prasad BJP [4]
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
6Vacant (Ali Anwar) Manoj Jha

Chhattisgarh

From Chhattisgarh State, 1 member is elected for the Rajya Sabha seat on 23 March 2018, to replace member retiring on 2 April 2018. [5]

Seat NoFormer MPFormer PartyElected MPElected PartyReference
1 Bhushan Lal Jangde BJP Saroj Pandey BJP [6] [5]

Gujarat

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. [7]

Seat NoFormer MPFormer PartyElected MPElected PartyReference
1 Parshottam Rupala BJP Parshottam Rupala BJP [7]
2 Mansukh L. Mandaviya Mansukh L. Mandaviya
3 Arun Jaitley Naranbhai Rathwa INC
4 Shankarbhai Vegad Amee Yajnik

Haryana

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. [8]

Seat NoFormer MPFormer PartyElected MPElected PartyReference
1 Shadi Lal Batra INC D.P. Vats BJP [8]

Himachal Pradesh

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. [9]

Seat NoFormer MPFormer PartyElected MPElected PartyReference
1 Jagat Prakash Nadda BJP Jagat Prakash Nadda BJP [9] [8]

Jharkhand

From Jharkhand State, 2 members are elected for the Rajya Sabha seats on 23 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 3 May 2018. [10]

Seat NoFormer MPFormer PartyElected MPElected PartyReference
1 Sanjiv Kumar JMM Sameer Oraon BJP [10] [6]
2 Pradeep Kumar Balmuchu INC Dhiraj Prasad Sahu INC

Karnataka

From Karnataka State, 4 members are elected for the Rajya Sabha seats on 23 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018. [11]

Seat NoFormer MPFormer PartyElected MPElected PartyReference
1 R Ramakrishna BJP Syed Naseer Hussain INC [6] [11]
2 Basavaraj Patil Sedam L. Hanumanthaiah
3 K. Rahman Khan INC G C Chandrasekhar
4Vacant (Rajeev Chandrasekhar) Independent Rajeev Chandrasekhar BJP

Madhya Pradesh

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. [12]

Seat NoFormer MPFormer PartyElected MPElected PartyReference
1 Satyavrat Chaturvedi INC Rajmani Patel INC [12]
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

Maharashtra

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. [13]

Seat NoFormer MPFormer PartyElected MPElected PartyReference
1 Ajay Sancheti BJP Prakash Javadekar BJP [13]
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

Odisha

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. [14]

Seat NoFormer MPFormer PartyElected MPElected PartyReference
1 Ananga Udaya Singh Deo BJD Prashanta Nanda BJD [14]
2 Dilip Tirkey Achyuta Samanta
3 A V Swamy Independent Soumya Ranjan Patnaik

Rajasthan

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. [15]

Seat NoFormer MPFormer PartyElected MPElected PartyReference
1 Abhishek Singhvi INC Kirodi Lal Meena BJP [15]
2 Narendra Budania Madan Lal Saini
3 Bhupender Yadav BJP Bhupender Yadav

Telangana

From Telangana State, 3 members are elected for the Rajya Sabha seats on 23 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018. [16]

Seat NoFormer MPFormer PartyElected MPElected PartyReference
1 C. M. Ramesh TDP Joginapally Santosh Kumar TRS [6] [16]
2 Rapolu Ananda Bhaskar INC Badulgula Lingaiah Yadav
3Vacant (P. Govardhan Reddy) Banda Prakash

Uttarakhand

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. [17]

Seat NoFormer MPFormer PartyElected MPElected PartyReference
1 Mahendra Singh Mahra INC Anil Baluni BJP [17]

Uttar Pradesh

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. [18]

Seat NoPrevious MPPrevious PartyElected MPElected PartyReference
1 Jaya Bachchan SP Jaya Bachchan SP [6] [18]
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
8Vacant (Mayawati) Kanta Kardam
9 Pramod Tiwari INC G. V. L. Narasimha Rao
10 Vinay Katiyar BJP Vijaypal Singh Tomar

West Bengal

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 NoPrevious MPPrevious PartyElected MPElected PartyReference
1 Tapan Kumar Sen CPI(M) Abhishek Singhvi INC [6]
2 Nadimul Haque AITC Nadimul Haque AITC
3 Vivek Gupta Abir Biswas
4 Kunal Kumar Ghosh Santunu Sen
5Vacant (Mukul Roy) Subhasish Chakraborty

Kerala

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 NoFormer MPFormer PartyElected MPElected PartyReference
1 C.P. Narayanan CPI(M) Elamaram Kareem CPI(M) [19]
2 P. J. Kurien INC Binoy Viswam CPI
3 Joy Abraham KC(M) Jose K. Mani KC(M)

Nominated

Seat NoFormer MPFormer PartyElected MPElected PartyReference
1 Anu Aga Nominated Raghunath Mohapatra BJP [20]
2 K. Parasaran Nominated Sonal Mansingh BJP
3 Rekha Nominated Ram Shakal BJP
4 Sachin Tendulkar Nominated Rakesh Sinha BJP

By-elections

In addition to scheduled elections, unforeseen vacancies, caused by members' resignation, death or disqualification, may also be filled via By-elections.

Uttar Pradesh

S.NoFormer MPPartyDate of VacancyElected MPPartyDate of appointmentDate of retirement
1 Manohar Parrikar BJP 2 September 2017 Hardeep Singh Puri BJP 9 January 201825 November 2020

Kerala

S.NoFormer MPPartyDate of VacancyElected MPPartyDate of appointmentDate of retirement
1 M. P. Veerendra Kumar Janata Dal (United) 20 December 2017 M. P. Veerendra Kumar IND 24 March 20182 April 2022

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