2025 Rajya Sabha elections

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2025 Rajya Sabha elections
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  2024 2025 2026  

11 seats in the Rajya Sabha [a]
PartyLeaderSeats+/–
DMK Tiruchi Siva 30
BJP J. P. Nadda 2+1
AIADMK M. Thambidurai 2+1
AAP Sanjay Singh 10
AGP Birendra Prasad Baishya 10
MNM Kamal Haasan 1+1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

The 2025 Rajya Sabha elections will be held as part of a routine six-year cycle among the State Legislatures in India on July and August 2025 to elect 11 of its 245 members, of which the states through their legislators elect 233, and the President appoints the remaining 4. 3 of the 11 elections are by-elections. [1]

Contents

Elections

Assam

#Previous MPTerm EndElected MPPartyTerm Start
1 Mission Ranjan Das BJP 14-Jun-2025 Kanad Purkayastha [2] BJP 15-Jun-2025
2 Birendra Prasad Baishya AGP Birendra Prasad Baishya [3] AGP


Tamil Nadu

#Previous MPPrevious PartyTerm EndElected MPPartyTerm Start
1 N. Chandrasegharan AIADMK 24 July 2025 M. Dhanapal [4] AIADMK 25 July 2025
2 Anbumani Ramadoss PMK I. S. Inbadurai [4]
3 M. M. Abdulla DMK Salma [5] DMK
4 M. Shanmugam S. R. Sivalingam [5]
5 P. Wilson P. Wilson [5]
6 Vaiko MDMK Kamal Haasan [5] MNM

By-elections

Andhra Pradesh

#Previous MPPartyVacancy dateElected MPPartyTerm start
1 V. Vijayasai Reddy YSRCP 25-Jan-2025 P. Venkata Satyanarayana [6] BJP 9-May-2025

Jharkhand

#Previous MPPartyVacancy dateElected MPPartyTerm start
1 Shibu Soren JMM 4-August-2025TBA JMM TBA

Punjab

#Previous MPPartyVacancy dateElected MPPartyTerm start
1 Sanjeev Arora AAP 1-July-2025TBD AAP TBD

Nominations

#Previous MPAffiliationNominated MPAffilationFieldTerm startNominated byReference
1 Sonal Mansingh BJP Meenakshi Jain NOM Diplomacy 13-July-2025 Droupadi Murmu [7]
2 Ram Shakal Harsh Vardhan Shringla BJP Literature and Education
3 Rakesh Sinha Ujjwal Nikam Law
4 Mahesh Jethmalani C. Sadanandan Master Social work

Notes

  1. Including two casual vacancies

References

  1. "Statewise Retirement". rajyasabha.nic.in.
  2. The Hindu (2025-06-07). "BJP nominates Kanad Purkayastha for Rajya Sabha seat from Assam". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 2025-06-09.
  3. Northeast (2025-06-08). "AGP renominates Birendra Prasad Baishya for Rajya Sabha poll from Assam". Northeast News - Northeast India news 24×7. Retrieved 2025-06-09.
  4. 1 2 DTNEXT (2025-06-01). "AIADMK nominates ex-MLAs Inbadurai and Dhanapal for Rajya Sabha seats". www.dtnext.in. Retrieved 2025-06-09.
  5. 1 2 3 4 The Hindu (2025-05-28). "DMK announces candidates for Rajya Sabha election; allots one seat to Kamal Haasan". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 2025-06-09.
  6. Viswanath, S. (2025-04-23). "Andhra CM Naidu agrees to concede Rajya Sabha seat to BJP". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2025-04-23.
  7. "Former Foreign Secretary Shringla, Ujjwal Nikam, C. Sadanandan Master, and Meenakshi Jain nominated to Rajya Sabha". The Hindu. 2025-07-13. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 2025-07-13.