2022 Rajya Sabha elections

2022 Rajya Sabha elections

←  2021 31 March – 22 September 2022 2023  →

74 seats in the Rajya Sabha [a]

Party Leader Seats +/– BJP Piyush Goyal 27 0 INC Mallikarjun Kharge 10 −4 AAP Sanjay Singh 7 +7 BJD Sasmit Patra 4 0 YSRCP V. Vijayasai Reddy 4 +3 BRS K. Keshava Rao 3 0 DMK Tiruchi Siva 3 0 AIADMK M. Thambidurai 2 −1 JD(U) Ram Nath Thakur 2 −1 RJD Prem Chand Gupta 2 +1 CPI(M) Elamaram Kareem 1 −1 CPI Binoy Viswam 1 +1 NCP Sharad Pawar 1 0 JMM Shibu Soren 1 +1 RLD - 1 +1 SP Ram Gopal Yadav 1 −2 SS(UBT) Sanjay Raut 1 0 UPPL - 1 +1 Independent - 2 +1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Rajya Sabha elections were held throughout 2022, to elect the retiring members of the Rajya Sabha, the Indian Parliament's upper house. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Elections to the 4 vacant seats from Jammu and Kashmir were not held in February as the union territory is under President's rule and the assembly has been dissolved. ^[4]

List of elections by states

• Listed according to the dates

State	Members retiring	Date of retirement
Assam	2	2 April 2022
Himachal Pradesh	1
Kerala	3
Nagaland	1
Tripura	1
Punjab	5	9 April 2022
Andhra Pradesh	4	21 June 2022
Telangana	2
Chhattisgarh	2	29 June 2022
Madhya Pradesh	3
Tamil Nadu	6
Karnataka	4	30 June 2022
Odisha	3	1 July 2022
Maharashtra	6	4 July 2022
Punjab	2	4 July 2022
Rajasthan	4
Uttar Pradesh	11
Uttarakhand	1
Bihar	5	7 July 2022
Jharkhand	2
Haryana	2	1 August 2022
Total	70

State	Vacant seats	Date of vacancy
Telangana	1	4 December 2021
Bihar	1	26 December 2021
Odisha	1	27 April 2022
Tripura	1	26 June 2022

Results

Members retiring and elected

Note:

• Listed according to date of retirement

Assam

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	Ripun Bora		INC	02-Apr-2022	Rwngwra Narzary		UPPL	[5]
2	Ranee Narah		INC	02-Apr-2022	Pabitra Margherita		BJP

Himachal Pradesh

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	Anand Sharma		INC	02-Apr-2022	Sikander Kumar		BJP	[6]

Kerala

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	A. K. Antony		INC	02-Apr-2022	Jebi Mather		INC	[7]
2	K. Somaprasad		CPI(M)	02-Apr-2022	A. A. Rahim		CPI(M)
3	M. V. Shreyams Kumar		LJD	02-Apr-2022	P. Santhosh Kumar		CPI

Nagaland

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	K. G. Kenye		NPF	02-Apr-2022	Phangnon Konyak		BJP	[8]

Tripura

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	Jharna Das		CPI(M)	02-Apr-2022	Manik Saha		BJP	[9]

Punjab

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa		SAD	9 April 2022	Harbhajan Singh		AAP	[10]
2	Naresh Gujral				Raghav Chadha
3	Pratap Singh Bajwa		INC		Sandeep Pathak
4	Shamsher Singh Dullo				Ashok Mittal
5	Shwait Malik		BJP		Sanjeev Arora
6	Balwinder Singh Bhunder		SAD	4 July 2022	Balbir Singh Seechewal
7	Ambika Soni		INC		Vikramjit Singh Sahney

Andhra Pradesh

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	V. Vijayasai Reddy		YSRCP	21 June 2022	V. Vijayasai Reddy		YSRCP	[11]
2	Suresh Prabhu		BJP	21 June 2022	R. Krishnaiah
3	Sujana Chowdary			21 June 2022	S. Niranjan Reddy
4	T. G. Venkatesh			21 June 2022	Beeda Masthan Rao

Telangana

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	V. Lakshmikantha Rao		TRS	21 June 2022	B. Parthasaradhi Reddy		TRS	[12]
2	D. Srinivas			21 June 2022	D. Damodar Rao

Chhattisgarh

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	Ramvichar Netam		BJP	29-Jun-2022	Rajeev Shukla		INC	[13]
2	Chhaya Verma		INC	29-Jun-2022	Ranjeet Ranjan

Madhya Pradesh

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	M. J. Akbar		BJP	29-Jun-2022	Kavita Patidar		BJP	[14]
2	Sampatiya Uikey			29-Jun-2022	Sumitra Valmiki
3	Vivek Tankha		INC	29-Jun-2022	Vivek Tankha		INC

Tamil Nadu

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	R. S. Bharathi		DMK	29-Jun-2022	R. Girirajan		DMK	[15]
2	T. K. S. Elangovan			29-Jun-2022	S. Kalyanasundaram
3	K. R. N. Rajeshkumar			29-Jun-2022	K. R. N. Rajeshkumar
4	A. Navaneethakrishnan		AIADMK	29-Jun-2022	P. Chidambaram		INC
5	S. R. Balasubramoniyan			29-Jun-2022	C. V. Shanmugam		AIADMK
6	A. Vijayakumar			29-Jun-2022	R. Dharmar

Karnataka

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	Nirmala Sitharaman		BJP	30-Jun-2022	Nirmala Sitharaman		BJP	[16]
2	K. C. Ramamurthy			30-Jun-2022	Jaggesh
3	Oscar Fernandes		INC	30-Jun-2022	Lehar Singh Siroya
4	Jairam Ramesh			30-Jun-2022	Jairam Ramesh		INC

Odisha

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	Sasmit Patra		BJD	1 July 2022	Sasmit Patra		BJD	[17]
2	Prasanna Acharya				Manas Ranjan Mangaraj
3	N. Bhaskar Rao				Sulata Deo

Maharashtra

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	Piyush Goyal		BJP	04-Jul-2022	Piyush Goyal		BJP	[18]
2	Vinay Sahasrabuddhe			04-Jul-2022	Anil Sukhdevrao Bonde
3	Vikas Mahatme			04-Jul-2022	Dhananjay Mahadik
4	Praful Patel		NCP	04-Jul-2022	Praful Patel		NCP
5	P. Chidambaram		INC	04-Jul-2022	Imran Pratapgarhi		INC
6	Sanjay Raut		SS	04-Jul-2022	Sanjay Raut		SS

Rajasthan

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	Om Prakash Mathur		BJP	04-Jul-2022	Randeep Surjewala		INC	[19]
2	Ram Kumar Verma			04-Jul-2022	Mukul Wasnik
3	Harshvardhan Singh Dungarpur			04-Jul-2022	Pramod Tiwari
4	Alphons Kannanthanam			04-Jul-2022	Ghanshyam Tiwari		BJP

Uttar Pradesh

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	Surendra Singh Nagar		BJP	04-Jul-2022	Surendra Singh Nagar		BJP	[20]
2	Shiv Pratap Shukla			04-Jul-2022	Laxmikant Bajpai
3	Sanjay Seth			04-Jul-2022	Radha Mohan Das Agarwal
4	Jai Prakash Nishad			04-Jul-2022	Baburam Nishad
5	Syed Zafar Islam			04-Jul-2022	Sangeeta Yadav
6	Rewati Raman Singh		SP	04-Jul-2022	Darshana Singh
7	Sukhram Singh Yadav			04-Jul-2022	Mithlesh Kumar
8	Vishambhar Prasad Nishad			04-Jul-2022	K. Laxman
9	Satish Chandra Mishra		BSP	04-Jul-2022	Jayant Chaudhary		RLD
10	Ashok Siddharth			04-Jul-2022	Javed Ali Khan		SP
11	Kapil Sibal		INC	04-Jul-2022	Kapil Sibal		IND

Uttarakhand

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	Pradeep Tamta		INC	04-Jul-2022	Kalpana Saini		BJP	[21]

Bihar

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	Gopal Narayan Singh		BJP	07-Jul-2022	Shambhu Sharan Patel		BJP	[22]
2	Satish Chandra Dubey			07-Jul-2022	Satish Chandra Dubey
3	Ramchandra Prasad Singh		JD(U)	07-Jul-2022	Khiru Mahto		JD(U)
4	Sharad Yadav			07-Jul-2022	Faiyaz Ahmad		RJD
5	Misa Bharti		RJD	07-Jul-2022	Misa Bharti

Jharkhand

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi		BJP	07-Jul-2022	Aditya Sahu		BJP	[23]
2	Mahesh Poddar		BJP	07-Jul-2022	Mahua Maji		JMM

Haryana

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	Dushyant Kumar Gautam		BJP	01-Aug-2022	Krishan Lal Panwar		BJP	[24]
2	Subhash Chandra		IND	01-Aug-2022	Kartikeya Sharma		IND

By-elections

Aside from automatic elections, unforeseen vacancies caused by members' resignation, death or disqualification, are unless a few months before the expected natural expiry of the term of tenure, filled via by-elections, which for the Rajya Sabha often take some months to organise.

Bihar

• On 26 December 2021, Mahendra Prasad died

No	Former MP	Party		Date of vacancy	Elected MP	Party		Date of appointment	Date of retirement	Ref.
1	Mahendra Prasad		JD(U)	26 December 2021	Anil Hegde		JD(U)	30 May 2022	2 April 2024	[25]

Telangana

• On 4 December 2021, Banda Prakash resigned

No	Former MP	Party		Date of vacancy	Elected MP	Party		Date of appointment	Date of retirement	Ref.
1	Banda Prakash		TRS	4 December 2021	Vaddiraju Ravichandra		BRS	25 May 2022	2 April 2024	[26]

Odisha

• On 27 April 2022, Subhash Chandra Singh was elected the Mayor of Cuttack.

No	Former MP	Party		Date of vacancy	Elected MP	Party		Date of appointment	Date of retirement	Ref.
1	Subhash Chandra Singh		BJD	27 April 2022	Niranjan Bishi		BJD	13 June 2022	2 April 2026	[27]

Tripura

• On 26 June 2022 Manik Saha was elected to the Tripura Legislative Assembly.

No	Former MP	Party		Date of vacancy	Elected MP	Party		Date of appointment	Date of retirement	Ref.
1	Manik Saha		BJP	26 June 2022	Biplab Deb		BJP	22 September 2022	2 April 2028	[28]

Nominations

Nominated members

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Nominated MP	Party		Date of appointment	Ref.
1	Narendra Jadhav		Nominated	24-Apr-2022	Ilaiyaraaja		Nominated	06-Jul-2022	[29]
2	Mary Kom		Nominated	24-Apr-2022	P. T. Usha		Nominated	06-Jul-2022
3	Roopa Ganguly		Nominated (BJP)	24-Apr-2022	V. Vijayendra Prasad		Nominated	06-Jul-2022
4	Swapan Dasgupta		Nominated (BJP)	24-Apr-2022	Veerendra Heggade		Nominated	06-Jul-2022
5	Suresh Gopi		Nominated (BJP)	24-Apr-2022	Ghulam Ali Khatana		Nominated (BJP)	10-Sep-2022	[30]

See also

• 2022 elections in India
• List of current members of the Rajya Sabha

Notes

1. Including 4 casual vacancies

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