2024 Rajya Sabha elections

2024 Rajya Sabha elections

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84 [a] of the 233 [b] elected seats in the Rajya Sabha 119 [c] total seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Leader J. P. Nadda Mallikarjun Kharge Party BJP INC Alliance NDA INDIA Leader since 24 June 2024 16 February 2021 Seats before 89 [d] 30 Seats after 96 [e] 27 Seat change 7 3 Alliance seats before 106 [f] 91 Alliance seats after 117 [g] 87 Seat change 11 4
Majority before election None Majority after election National Democratic Alliance [h]

The 2024 Rajya Sabha elections were held as part of a routine six-year cycle of the upper house of the Parliament of India from January to December 2024, to elect 65 of its 245 members and 19 bye elections, of which the states through their legislators elect 233, and the remaining 12 are appointed by the President. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

National Democratic Alliance secured majority in the Rajya Sabha for the first time since it assumed office in 2014, after winning 11 of the 12 bypolls held in August 2024. ^{[6] [7]}

Electoral system

MPs are elected through indirect election by the members of the State legislative assemblies using the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote. Each voter (MLA) ranks candidates in the order of preference (marking 1, 2, 3 and so on) under an open ballot system. Candidate have to reach a specific quota of votes in order to win a seat. ^[8]

${\displaystyle {\text{Quota}}=\left({\frac {\text{Total valid votes}}{{\text{Vacancies}}+1}}\right)+1}$

For a single-seat election, each ballot is valued at one. When multiple seats are filled, the ballot value is set to one hundred. ^[9]

A candidate is elected unopposed when the number of candidates matches the number of available seats after nominations and withdrawals period. ^[10]

Results

Alliance/ Party				Seats	+/–
					NDA		Bharatiya Janata Party	44	+7
	Nationalist Congress Party	3	+2
	Telugu Desam Party	2	+1
	Janata Dal (United)	1	-1
	Rashtriya Lok Morcha	1	+1
	Shiv Sena	1	+1
Total		52	+11
	INDIA		Indian National Congress	10	-3
			All India Trinamool Congress	5	0
			Aam Aadmi Party	3	0
			Indian Union Muslim League	2	+1
			Rashtriya Janata Dal	2	-1
			Samajwadi Party	2	+1
			Communist Party of India	1	0
			Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	1	+1
			Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)	0	-1
			Nationalist Congress Party – Sharadchandra Pawar	0	-1
			Communist Party of India (Marxist)	0	-1
		Total		26	-4
	Others		Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party	3	-1
			Biju Janata Dal	2	-2
			Bharat Rashtra Samithi	1	-3
			Sikkim Democratic Front	0	-1

Members retiring and elected

January Election

Delhi

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP [11]	Party		Term start
1	Sanjay Singh		AAP	27-Jan-2024	Sanjay Singh		AAP	28-Jan-2024
2	N. D. Gupta				N. D. Gupta
3	Sushil Gupta				Swati Maliwal

Sikkim

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Term start
1	Hishey Lachungpa		SDF	23-Feb-2024	Dorjee Tshering Lepcha		BJP	24-Feb-2024

March Election

Andhra Pradesh

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Term start
1	Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy		YSRCP	02-Apr-2024	Y. V. Subba Reddy		YSRCP	03-Apr-2024
2	C. M. Ramesh		BJP		Meda Raghunath Reddy
3	Kanakamedala Ravindra Kumar		TDP		Golla Baburao

Bihar

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Term start
1	Sushil Modi		BJP	02-Apr-2024	Dharamshila Gupta		BJP	03-Apr-2024
2	Anil Hegde		JD(U)		Bhim Singh
3	Bashistha Narain Singh				Sanjay Kumar Jha		JD(U)
4	Akhilesh Prasad Singh		INC		Akhilesh Prasad Singh		INC
5	Ashfaque Karim		RJD		Sanjay Yadav		RJD
6	Manoj Jha				Manoj Jha

Chhattisgarh

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Term start
1	Saroj Pandey		BJP	02-Apr-2024	Devendra Pratap Singh		BJP	03-Apr-2024

Gujarat

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Term start
1	Parshottam Rupala		BJP	02-Apr-2024	J. P. Nadda		BJP	03-Apr-2024
2	Mansukh Mandaviya				Govind Dholakia
3	Amee Yajnik		INC		Mayankbhai Nayak
4	Naranbhai Rathwa				Jasvantsinh Parmar

Haryana

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Term start
1	D. P. Vats		BJP	02-Apr-2024	Subhash Barala		BJP	03-Apr-2024

Himachal Pradesh

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Term start
1	J. P. Nadda		BJP	02-Apr-2024	Harsh Mahajan		BJP	03-Apr-2024

Karnataka

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Term start
1	Syed Naseer Hussain		INC	02-Apr-2024	Syed Naseer Hussain		INC	03-Apr-2024
2	L. Hanumanthaiah				Ajay Maken
3	G. C. Chandrasekhar				G. C. Chandrasekhar
4	Rajeev Chandrasekhar		BJP		Narayana Bhandage		BJP

Madhya Pradesh

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Term start
1	L. Murugan		BJP	02-Apr-2024	L. Murugan		BJP	03-Apr-2024
2	Dharmendra Pradhan				Umesh Nath Maharaj
3	Kailash Soni				Maya Naroliya
4	Ajay Pratap Singh				Bansilal Gurjar
5	Rajmani Patel		INC		Ashok Singh		INC

Maharashtra

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Term start
1	Prakash Javadekar		BJP	02-Apr-2024	Medha Kulkarni		BJP	03-Apr-2024
2	Narayan Rane				Ajit Gopchade
3	V. Muraleedharan				Ashok Chavan
4	Anil Desai		SS(UBT)		Milind Deora		SHS
5	Vandana Chavan		NCP(SP)		Praful Patel		NCP
6	Kumar Ketkar		INC		Chandrakant Handore		INC

Telangana

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Term start
1	Badulgula Lingaiah Yadav		BRS	02-Apr-2024	Renuka Chowdhury		INC	03-Apr-2024
2	Joginapally Santosh Kumar				M. Anil Kumar Yadav
3	Vaddiraju Ravichandra				Vaddiraju Ravichandra		BRS

Uttar Pradesh

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Term start
1	Sudhanshu Trivedi		BJP	02-Apr-2024	Sudhanshu Trivedi		BJP	03-Apr-2024
2	Kanta Kardam				Ratanjit Pratap Narain Singh
3	Ashok Bajpai				Chaudhary Tejveer Singh
4	Harnath Singh Yadav				Sadhana Singh
5	Anil Agrawal				Amarpal Maurya
6	Sakal Deep Rajbhar				Sangeeta Balwant
7	Anil Jain				Naveen Jain
8	G. V. L. Narasimha Rao				Sanjay Seth
9	Vijaypal Singh Tomar				Ramji Lal Suman		SP
10	Jaya Bachchan		SP		Jaya Bachchan

Uttarakhand

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Term start
1	Anil Baluni		BJP	02-Apr-2024	Mahendra Bhatt		BJP	03-Apr-2024

West Bengal

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP [12]	Party		Term start
1	Nadimul Haque		TMC	02-Apr-2024	Nadimul Haque		TMC	03-Apr-2024
2	Subhasish Chakraborty				Mamata Bala Thakur
3	Abir Biswas				Sagarika Ghose
4	Santunu Sen				Sushmita Dev
5	Abhishek Singhvi		INC		Samik Bhattacharya		BJP

Odisha

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Term start
1	Amar Patnaik		BJD	03-Apr-2024	Debashish Samantaray		BJD	04-Apr-2024
2	Prashanta Nanda				Subhashish Khuntia
3	Ashwini Vaishnaw		BJP		Ashwini Vaishnaw		BJP

Rajasthan

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Term start
1	Manmohan Singh		INC	03-Apr-2024	Sonia Gandhi [13]		INC	04-Apr-2024
2	Bhupender Yadav		BJP		Chunnilal Garasiya [13]		BJP
3	Vacant (Kirodi Lal Meena)				Madan Rathore [13]

Jharkhand

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Term start
1	Sameer Oraon		BJP	03-May-2024	Pradeep Verma		BJP	04-May-2024
2	Dhiraj Prasad Sahu		INC		Sarfaraz Ahmad		JMM

June election

Kerala

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Term start
1	Binoy Viswam		CPI	01-Jul-2024	P. P. Suneer		CPI	02-Jul-2024
2	Jose K. Mani		KCM	01-Jul-2024	Jose K. Mani		KCM	02-Jul-2024
3	Elamaram Kareem		CPI(M)	01-Jul-2024	Haris Beeran		IUML	02-Jul-2024

Nominations

#	Nominated MP	Affiliation		Field	Term start	Nominated by
1	Satnam Singh Sandhu		BJP	Education	31-Jan-2024	Droupadi Murmu
2	Sudha Murty		NOM	Social work and Education	08-Mar-2024

By-elections

Andhra Pradesh

#	Previous MP	Party		Vacancy date	Elected MP	Party		Term start	Term end	Reason for Vacancy
1	Mopidevi Venkataramana		YSRCP	29-Aug-2024	Sana Satish		TDP	13-Dec-2024	21-Jun-2026	Resignation
2	R. Krishnaiah				R. Krishnaiah		BJP		21-Jun-2028	Resignation
2	Beeda Masthan Rao				Beeda Masthan Rao		TDP			Resignation

Assam

#	Previous MP	Party		Vacancy date	Elected MP	Party		Term start	Term end	Reason for Vacancy
1	Kamakhya Prasad Tasa		BJP	05-Jun-2024	Mission Ranjan Das		BJP	28-Aug-2024	14-Jun-2025	Elected to 18th Lok Sabha
2	Sarbananda Sonowal				Rameswar Teli				09-Apr-2026	Elected to 18th Lok Sabha

Bihar

#	Previous MP	Party		Vacancy date	Elected MP	Party		Term start	Term end	Reason for Vacancy
1	Vivek Thakur		BJP	05-Jun-2024	Upendra Kushwaha		RLM	28-Aug-2024	09-Apr-2026	Elected to 18th Lok Sabha
2	Misa Bharti		RJD		Manan Kumar Mishra		BJP		07-Jul-2028	Elected to 18th Lok Sabha

Haryana

#	Previous MP	Party		Vacancy date	Elected MP	Party		Term start	Term end	Reason for Vacancy
1	Deepender Singh Hooda		INC	05-Jun-2024	Kiran Chaudhary		BJP	28-Aug-2024	09-Apr-2026	Elected to 18th Lok Sabha
2	Krishan Lal Panwar		BJP	15-Oct-2024	Rekha Sharma			13-Dec-2024	01-Aug-2028	Elected to 15th Haryana Assembly

Madhya Pradesh

#	Previous MP	Party		Vacancy date	Elected MP	Party		Term start	Term end	Reason for Vacancy
1	Jyotiraditya Scindia		BJP	05-Jun-2024	George Kurian		BJP	28-Aug-2024	21-Jun-2026	Elected to 18th Lok Sabha

Maharashtra

#	Previous MP	Party		Vacancy date	Elected MP	Party		Term start	Term end	Reason for Vacancy
1	Praful Patel		NCP	27-Feb-2024	Sunetra Pawar		NCP	21-Jun-2024	04-Jul-2028	Resignation
2	Udayanraje Bhosale		BJP	05-Jun-2024	Dhairyashil Patil		BJP	28-Aug-2024	02-Apr-2026	Elected to 18th Lok Sabha
3	Piyush Goyal		BJP		Nitin Patil		NCP		04-Jul-2028	Elected to 18th Lok Sabha

Odisha

#	Previous MP	Party		Vacancy date	Elected MP	Party		Term start	Term end	Reason for Vacancy
1	Mamata Mohanta		BJD	31-Jul-2024	Mamata Mohanta		BJP	28-Aug-2024	02-Apr-2026	Resignation
2	Sujeet Kumar			06-Sep-2024	Sujeet Kumar			13-Dec-2024		Resignation

Rajasthan

#	Previous MP	Party		Vacancy date	Elected MP	Party		Term start	Term end	Reason for Vacancy
1	K. C. Venugopal		INC	05-Jun-2024	Ravneet Singh Bittu		BJP	28-Aug-2024	21-Jun-2026	Elected to 18th Lok Sabha

Telangana

#	Previous MP	Party		Vacancy date	Elected MP	Party		Term start	Term end	Reason for Vacancy
1	K. Keshava Rao		BRS	05-Jul-2024	Abhishek Manu Singhvi		INC	28-Aug-2024	09-Apr-2026	Resignation

Tripura

#	Previous MP	Party		Vacancy date	Elected MP	Party		Term start	Term end	Reason for Vacancy
1	Biplab Kumar Deb		BJP	05-Jun-2024	Rajib Bhattacharjee		BJP	27-Aug-2024	02-Apr-2028	Elected to 18th Lok Sabha

West Bengal

#	Previous MP	Party		Vacancy date	Elected MP	Party		Term start	Term end	Reason for Vacancy
1	Jawhar Sircar		AITC	08-Sep-2024	Ritabrata Banerjee		AITC	13-Dec-2024	02-Apr-2026	Resignation

See also

• List of current members of the Rajya Sabha
• 2024 elections in India
• 2024 Indian general election

Notes

1. Including 19 casual vacancies
2. excluding 12 nominated seats
3. out of 237 (excluding 8 vacancies and including 12 nominated seats)
4. excluding 5 nominated members
5. excluding 2 nominated members
6. excluding 10 nominated members
7. excluding 8 nominated members
8. including the support of 8 nominated members

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