2022 Rajya Sabha elections

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2022 Rajya Sabha elections
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  2021 31 March – 22 September 2022 2023  

74 seats in the Rajya Sabha [lower-alpha 1]
PartyLeaderSeats+/–
BJP Piyush Goyal 270
INC Mallikarjun Kharge 10−4
AAP Sanjay Singh 7+7
BJD Sasmit Patra 40
YSRCP V. Vijayasai Reddy 4+3
BRS K. Keshava Rao 30
DMK Tiruchi Siva 30
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 10
JMM Shibu Soren 1+1
RLD -1+1
SP Ram Gopal Yadav 1−2
SS(UBT) Sanjay Raut 10
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]

Contents

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

StateMembers retiringDate of retirement
Assam 22 April 2022
Himachal Pradesh 1
Kerala 3
Nagaland 1
Tripura 1
Punjab 59 April 2022
Andhra Pradesh 421 June 2022
Telangana 2
Chhattisgarh 229 June 2022
Madhya Pradesh 3
Tamil Nadu 6
Karnataka 430 June 2022
Odisha 31 July 2022
Maharashtra 64 July 2022
Punjab 24 July 2022
Rajasthan 4
Uttar Pradesh 11
Uttarakhand 1
Bihar 57 July 2022
Jharkhand 2
Haryana 21 August 2022
Total70
StateVacant seatsDate of vacancy
Telangana 14 December 2021
Bihar 126 December 2021
Odisha 127 April 2022
Tripura 126 June 2022

Results

Members retiring and elected

Note:

Assam

NoPrevious MPPartyTerm endElected MPPartyRef.
1 Ripun Bora INC 02-Apr-2022 Rwngwra Narzary UPPL [5]
2 Ranee Narah INC 02-Apr-2022 Pabitra Margherita BJP

Himachal Pradesh

NoPrevious MPPartyTerm endElected MPPartyRef.
1 Anand Sharma INC 02-Apr-2022 Sikander Kumar BJP [6]

Kerala

NoPrevious MPPartyTerm endElected MPPartyRef.
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

NoPrevious MPPartyTerm endElected MPPartyRef.
1 K. G. Kenye NPF 02-Apr-2022 Phangnon Konyak BJP [8]

Tripura

NoPrevious MPPartyTerm endElected MPPartyRef.
1 Jharna Das CPI(M) 02-Apr-2022 Manik Saha BJP [9]

Punjab

NoPrevious MPPartyTerm endElected MPPartyRef.
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

NoPrevious MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty
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

NoPrevious MPPartyTerm endElected MPPartyRef.
1 V. Lakshmikantha Rao TRS 21 June 2022 B. Parthasaradhi Reddy TRS [12]
2 D. Srinivas 21 June 2022 D. Damodar Rao

Chhattisgarh

NoPrevious MPPartyTerm endElected MPPartyRef.
1 Ramvichar Netam BJP 29-Jun-2022 Rajeev Shukla INC [13]
2 Chhaya Verma INC 29-Jun-2022 Ranjeet Ranjan

Madhya Pradesh

NoPrevious MPPartyTerm endElected MPPartyRef.
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

NoPrevious MPPartyTerm endElected MPPartyRef.
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

NoPrevious MPPartyTerm endElected MPPartyRef.
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

NoPrevious MPPartyTerm endElected MPPartyRef.
1 Sasmit Patra BJD 1 July 2022 Sasmit Patra BJD [17]
2 Prasanna Acharya Manas Ranjan Mangaraj
3 N. Bhaskar Rao Sulata Deo

Maharashtra

NoPrevious MPPartyTerm endElected MPPartyRef.
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 SHS 04-Jul-2022 Sanjay Raut SHS

Rajasthan

NoPrevious MPPartyTerm endElected MPPartyRef.
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

NoPrevious MPPartyTerm endElected MPPartyRef.
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

NoPrevious MPPartyTerm endElected MPPartyRef.
1 Pradeep Tamta INC 04-Jul-2022 Kalpana Saini BJP [21]

Bihar

NoPrevious MPPartyTerm endElected MPPartyRef.
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

NoPrevious MPPartyTerm endElected MPPartyRef.
1 Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi BJP 07-Jul-2022 Aditya Sahu BJP [23]
2 Mahesh Poddar BJP 07-Jul-2022 Mahua Maji JMM

Haryana

NoPrevious MPPartyTerm endElected MPPartyRef.
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

NoFormer MPPartyDate of vacancyElected MPPartyDate of appointmentDate of retirementRef.
1 Mahendra Prasad JD(U) 26 December 2021 Anil Hegde JD(U) 30 May 20222 April 2024 [25]

Telangana

NoFormer MPPartyDate of vacancyElected MPPartyDate of appointmentDate of retirementRef.
1 Banda Prakash TRS 4 December 2021 Vaddiraju Ravichandra BRS 25 May 20222 April 2024 [26]

Odisha

NoFormer MPPartyDate of vacancyElected MPPartyDate of appointmentDate of retirementRef.
1 Subhash Chandra Singh BJD 27 April 2022 Niranjan Bishi BJD 13 June 20222 April 2026 [27]

Tripura

NoFormer MPPartyDate of vacancyElected MPPartyDate of appointmentDate of retirementRef.
1 Manik Saha BJP 26 June 2022 Biplab Deb BJP 22 September 20222 April 2028 [28]

Nominations

Nominated members

NoPrevious MPPartyTerm endNominated MPPartyDate of appointmentRef.
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

Notes

  1. Including 4 casual vacancies

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