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The 2016 Rajya Sabha elections were held as part of a routine six-year cycle among certain of the State Legislatures in India on March 14 and June 11, 2016, to elect 13 and 57 of its 245 members, of which the states through their legislators elect 233, and the remaining 12 are appointed by the President.^[1]^[2] Being even-numbered, 2016 was a year in which about 30% of the State Legislature-elected 233-seat component of the body is elected.

There were also two by-elections, which are held if the incumbent resigns, dies, or is otherwise disqualified from serving.

March elections[edit | edit source]

The election of March 14, 2016 was held to elect 13 members for duration of 6 years from 6 states to the Rajya Sabha. The seats in following states were up for election with terms of sitting members ending as: Assam - 2 seats, Himachal Pradesh - 1 seat, Kerala - 3 seats, Tripura - 1 seat all term ending on 2 April 201; Nagaland - 1 seat with term ending on 2 April 2016 but vacant since 26 November 2015 and Punjab - 5 seats with term ending on 9 April 2016.^[1]

Assam[edit | edit source]

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Naznin Faruque		Congress	Ranee Narah		Congress	^[3]
2	Pankaj Bora		Congress	Ripun Bora		Congress	^[3]

Himachal Pradesh[edit | edit source]

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Bimla Kashyap Sood		BJP	Anand Sharma		Congress	^[4]

Kerala[edit | edit source]

Seat No	Previous MP		Elected MP		Reference
1	A. K. Antony	Congress	A. K. Antony	Congress	^[5]
2	K.N. Balagopal	CPI(M)	M. P. Veerendra Kumar	JD(U)
3	T N Seema	CPI(M)	K. Somaprasad	CPI(M)

Nagaland[edit | edit source]

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Khekiho Zhimomi Vacant		NPF	K. G. Kenye		NPF	^[5]

Tripura[edit | edit source]

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Jharna Das		CPI(M)	Jharna Das		CPI(M)	^[6]

Punjab[edit | edit source]

Seat No	Previous MP		Elected MP		Reference
1	M S Gill	Congress	Pratap Singh Bajwa	Congress	^{[citation needed]}
2	Ashwini Kumar	Congress	Shamsher Singh Dullo	Congress
3	Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa	SAD	Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa	SAD
4	Naresh Gujral	SAD	Naresh Gujral	SAD
5	Avinash Rai Khanna	BJP	Shwet Malik	BJP

June elections[edit | edit source]

The election of June 11, 2016 was held to elect 57 members from 15 states to the Rajya Sabha. The seats in following states were up for election:^[2]

Andhra Pradesh[edit | edit source]

Seat No	Previous MP		Elected MP		Reference
1	Nirmala Sitaraman	BJP	Suresh Prabhu	BJP	^[5]
2	Sujana Chowdary	TDP	Sujana Chowdary	TDP
3	Jairam Ramesh	Congress	T G Venkatesh	TDP
4	Jesudasu Seelam	Congress	V. Vijaysai Reddy	YSRCP

Bihar[edit | edit source]

Seat No	Previous MP		Elected MP		Reference
1	Sharad Yadav	JD(U)	Sharad Yadav	JD(U)	^[5]
2	Ramchandra Prasad Singh	JD(U)	Ramchandra Prasad Singh	JD(U)
3	K. C. Tyagi	JD(U)	Ram Jethmalani	RJD
4	Gulam Rasool Balyawi	JD(U)	Misa Bharti	RJD
5	Pavan Kumar Varma	JD(U)	Gopal Narayan Singh	BJP

Chhattisgarh[edit | edit source]

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Nand Kumar Sai		BJP	Ramvichar Netam		BJP	^[5]
2	Mohsina Kidwai		Congress	Chhaya Verma		Congress	^[5]

Haryana[edit | edit source]

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Birender Singh		BJP	Birender Singh		BJP	^[5]
2	Suresh Prabhu		BJP	Subhash Chandra		Independent	^[5]

Jharkhand[edit | edit source]

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	M J Akbar		BJP	Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi		BJP	^[5]
2	Dhiraj Prasad Sahu		Congress	Mahesh Poddar		BJP	^[5]

Karnataka[edit | edit source]

Seat No	Previous MP		Elected MP		Reference
1	Oscar Fernandes	Congress	Oscar Fernandes	INC	^[5]
2	Aayanur Manjunath	BJP	Jairam Ramesh
3	Dr Vijay Mallya	Independent	K. C. Ramamurthy
4	M. Venkaiah Naidu	BJP	Nirmala Sitharaman	BJP

Madhya Pradesh[edit | edit source]

Seat No	Previous MP		Elected MP		Reference
1	Anil Madhav Dave	BJP	Anil Madhav Dave	BJP	^[5]
2	Chandan Mitra	BJP	M. J. Akbar	BJP
3	Dr Vijayalaxmi Sadho	Congress	Vivek Tankha	Congress

Maharashtra[edit | edit source]

Seat No	Previous MP		Elected MP		Reference
1	Piyush Goyal	BJP	Piyush Goyal	BJP	^[5]
2	Ishwarlal Jain	NCP	Vinay Sahasrabuddhe
3	Avinash Pande	Congress	Vikas Mahatme
4	Vijay J. Darda	Congress	P. Chidambaram	Congress
5	Praful Patel	NCP	Praful Patel	NCP
6	Sanjay Raut	SHS	Sanjay Raut	SHS

Odisha[edit | edit source]

Seat No	Previous MP		Elected MP		Reference
1	Baishnab Charan Parida	BJD	N. Bhaskar Rao	BJD	^[5]
2	Pyarimohan Mohapatra	BJD	Prasanna Acharya	BJD
3	Bhupinder Singh	BJD	Bishnu Charan Das	BJD

Punjab[edit | edit source]

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Ambika Soni		Congress	Ambika Soni		Congress	^[5]
2	Balwinder Singh Bhunder		SAD	Balwinder Singh Bhunder		SAD	^[5]

Rajasthan[edit | edit source]

Seat No	Previous MP		Elected MP		Reference
1	Ashk Ali Tak	Congress	Om Prakash Mathur	BJP	^[5]
2	Ram Jethmalani	BJP	M. Venkaiah Naidu
3	Vijayendrapal Singh	BJP	Ram Kumar Verma
4	Anand Sharma	Congress	Harshvardhan Singh

Tamil Nadu[edit | edit source]

Seat No	Previous MP		Elected MP		Reference
1	K. P. Ramalingam	DMK	R. S. Bharathi	DMK	^[5]
2	S. Thangavelu	DMK	T. K. S. Elangovan	DMK
3	A. Navaneethakrishnan	ADMK	A. Navaneethakrishnan	ADMK
4	P. H. Paul Manoj Pandian	ADMK	S. R. Balasubramoniyan	ADMK
5	A. W. Rabi Bernard	ADMK	A. Vijayakumar	ADMK
6	E. M. Sudarsana Natchiappan	Congress	R. Vaithilingam	ADMK

Telangana[edit | edit source]

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Gundu Sudha Rani		TDP	D. Srinivas		TRS	^[5]
2	V. Hanumantha Rao		Congress	V. Lakshmikantha Rao		TRS	^[5]

Uttar Pradesh[edit | edit source]

Seat No	Previous MP		Elected MP		Reference
1	Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi	BJP	Shiv Pratap Shukla	BJP	^[5]
2	Vishambhar Prasad Nishad	SP	Vishambhar Prasad Nishad	SP
3	Smt Kanak Lata Singh	SP	Amar Singh	Independent
4	Arvind Kumar Singh	SP	Surendra Nagar	SP
5	Satish Sharma	Congress	Kapil Sibal	Congress
6	Jugal Kishore	BSP	Sanjay Seth	SP
7	Narendra Kumar Kashyap	BSP	Sukhram Singh Yadav	SP
8	Salim Ansari	BSP	Rewati Raman Singh	SP
9	Rajpal Singh Saini	BSP	Beni Prasad Verma	SP
10	Satish Chandra Mishra	BSP	Satish Chandra Mishra	BSP
11	Ambeth Rajan	BSP	Ashok Siddharth	BSP

Uttarakhand[edit | edit source]

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Tarun Vijay		BJP	Pradeep Tamta		Congress	^[5]

By-elections[edit | edit source]

Gujarat[edit | edit source]

A bye election was held on June 11, to fill the vacancy caused by death of Praveen Rashtrapal, who represented Gujarat.^[7] Parsottambhai Rupala was elected unopposed on June 3, for the vacancy with the term till 2 April 2018.

S.No	Former MP	Party		Date of Vacancy	Elected MP	Party		Date of appointment	Date of retirement
1	Praveen Rashtrapal		Indian National Congress	12 May 2016	Parshottam Rupala		Bharatiya Janata Party	11 June 2016	2 April 2018

Madhya Pradesh[edit | edit source]

Najma Heptullah, who represented Madhya Pradesh, and resigned after being appointed Governor of Manipur.^[8] La Ganesan was elected in this bye-election unopposed on October 6, with the term till 2 April 2018.

S.No	Former MP	Party		Date of Vacancy	Elected MP	Party		Date of appointment	Date of retirement
1	Najma Heptullah		Bharatiya Janata Party	20 August	La Ganesan		Bharatiya Janata Party	7 October 2016	2 April 2018

Notes[edit | edit source]

↑ Including 2 casual vacancies

References[edit | edit source]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 [1]^{[dead link]}
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 [2]^{[dead link]}
↑ "Congress wins 2 Rajya Sabha seats in poll-bound Assam". International Business Times. March 22, 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
↑ "Anand Sharma, eight other members take oath in Rajya Sabha". Firstpost. April 25, 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
↑ ^5.00 ^5.01 ^5.02 ^5.03 ^5.04 ^5.05 ^5.06 ^5.07 ^5.08 ^5.09 ^5.10 ^5.11 ^5.12 ^5.13 ^5.14 ^5.15 ^5.16 ^5.17 ^5.18 ^5.19 ^5.20 ^5.21 "Statewise Retirement". 164.100.47.5. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
↑ "CPI-M's Jharna Das Baidya re-elected to Rajya Sabha from Tripura". Business Standard. March 21, 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). eci.nic.in. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 May 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). eci.nic.in. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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[1] Including 2 casual vacancies

[two-2] 1.0 ^1.1 [1]^{[dead link]}

[one-3] 2.0 ^2.1 [2]^{[dead link]}

[ibt-4] "Congress wins 2 Rajya Sabha seats in poll-bound Assam". International Business Times. March 22, 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2016.

[fp-5] "Anand Sharma, eight other members take oath in Rajya Sabha". Firstpost. April 25, 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2016.

[term-6] 5.00 ^5.01 ^5.02 ^5.03 ^5.04 ^5.05 ^5.06 ^5.07 ^5.08 ^5.09 ^5.10 ^5.11 ^5.12 ^5.13 ^5.14 ^5.15 ^5.16 ^5.17 ^5.18 ^5.19 ^5.20 ^5.21 "Statewise Retirement". 164.100.47.5. Retrieved 12 June 2016.

[7] "CPI-M's Jharna Das Baidya re-elected to Rajya Sabha from Tripura". Business Standard. March 21, 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2016.

[gj-bye-8] "Archived copy" (PDF). eci.nic.in. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 May 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[mp-bye-9] "Archived copy" (PDF). eci.nic.in. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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 * A [[bye election]] was held on June 11, to fill the vacancy caused by death of [[Praveen Rashtrapal]], who represented [[Gujarat]].<ref name=gj-bye>{{cite web |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/PN47_19052016.pdf |title=Archived copy |website=eci.nic.in |access-date=15 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527191206/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/PN47_19052016.pdf |archive-date=27 May 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Parsottambhai Rupala]] was elected unopposed on June 3, for the vacancy with the term till 2 April 2018.
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