2024 Rajya Sabha elections

2024 Rajya Sabha elections
84 of the 233 elected seats in the Rajya Sabha; 119 total seats needed for a majority
Majority before election; None;	Majority after; election ; National Democratic Alliance;

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[edit | edit source]

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]

$Quota = (\frac{Total valid votes}{Vacancies + 1}) + 1$

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[edit | edit source]

Alliance/ Party				Seats	+/–
Alliance/ Party					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[edit | edit source]

January Election[edit | edit source]

Delhi[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP^[11]		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[edit | edit source]

#	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[edit | edit source]

Andhra Pradesh[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP		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[edit | edit source]

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

Chhattisgarh[edit | edit source]

#	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[edit | edit source]

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

Haryana[edit | edit source]

#	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[edit | edit source]

#	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[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP		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[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP		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[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP		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[edit | edit source]

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

Uttar Pradesh[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP		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	SP

Uttarakhand[edit | edit source]

#	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[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP ^[12]		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[edit | edit source]

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

Rajasthan[edit | edit source]

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

Jharkhand[edit | edit source]

#	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	03-May-2024	Sarfaraz Ahmad		JMM	04-May-2024

June election[edit | edit source]

Kerala[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP		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[edit | edit source]

#	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	Droupadi Murmu

By-elections[edit | edit source]

Andhra Pradesh[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP		Vacancy date	Elected MP		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		21-Jun-2028	Resignation

Assam[edit | edit source]

#	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		BJP	05-Jun-2024	Rameswar Teli		BJP	28-Aug-2024	09-Apr-2026	Elected to 18th Lok Sabha

Bihar[edit | edit source]

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

Haryana[edit | edit source]

#	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[edit | edit source]

#	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[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP		Vacancy date	Elected MP		Term start	Term end	Reason for Vacancy
1	Praful Patel	NCP	27-Feb-2024	Sunetra Pawar	Nationalist Congress Party	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	05-Jun-2024	Nitin Patil	Nationalist Congress Party	28-Aug-2024	04-Jul-2028	Elected to 18th Lok Sabha

Odisha[edit | edit source]

#	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		BJD	06-Sep-2024	Sujeet Kumar	13-Dec-2024	Resignation		02-Apr-2026

Rajasthan[edit | edit source]

#	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[edit | edit source]

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

Tripura[edit | edit source]

#	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[edit | edit source]

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

Notes[edit | edit source]

↑ Including 19 casual vacancies
↑ excluding 12 nominated seats
↑ out of 237 (excluding 8 vacancies and including 12 nominated seats)
↑ excluding 5 nominated members
↑ excluding 2 nominated members
↑ excluding 10 nominated members
↑ excluding 8 nominated members
↑ including the support of 8 nominated members

References[edit | edit source]

↑ "Statewise Retirement". rajyasabha.nic.in.
↑ "Elections to three Rajya Sabha seats from Delhi, one from Sikkim on January 19". The Hindu. 2023-12-22. ISSN 0971-751X. Archived from the original on 2023-12-24. Retrieved 2025-10-20.
↑ "56 Rajya Sabha Seats From 15 States Go To Polls On February 27". Outlook India. 2024-01-29. Archived from the original on 2024-11-10. Retrieved 2025-10-20.
↑ "Rajya Sabha elections for 4 seats in Kerala and Maharashtra on June 25". India Today. 2024-05-27. Archived from the original on 2024-05-27. Retrieved 2025-10-20.
↑ "Elections to 12 Rajya Sabha Seats Scheduled for September 3: Election Commission". The New Indian Express. 2024-08-07. Archived from the original on 2024-09-10. Retrieved 2025-10-20.
↑ "BJP wins 9, allies 2 in RS bypolls for 12 seats; NDA hits majority mark for first time since 2014". The Times of India. 2024-08-28. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
↑ "With six nominated members, NDA has slender majority in Rajya Sabha". The Economic Times. 2024-09-07. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
↑ "Membership of Rajya Sabha" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2025-11-21.
↑ Dutta, Prabhash K. (2020-06-19). "Rajya Sabha election: How MPs are elected to the upper house". India Today. Retrieved 2025-11-22.
↑ "Handbook for Returning Officers" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-02.
↑ "Nominations filed by 3 AAP candidates for Jan. 19 Rajya Sabha poll". The Hindu. 8 January 2024.
↑ "Trinamool, BJP field candidates from West Bengal for upcoming Rajya Sabha elections". India Today. 11 February 2024.
↑ ^13.0 ^13.1 ^13.2 The Hindu (20 February 2024). "Sonia Gandhi elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan". Archived from the original on 20 February 2024. Retrieved 20 February 2024.

[1] Including 19 casual vacancies

[2] xcluding 12 nominated seats

[3] ut of 237 (excluding 8 vacancies and including 12 nominated seats)

[4] xcluding 5 nominated members

[5] xcluding 2 nominated members

[6] xcluding 10 nominated members

[7] xcluding 8 nominated members

[8] uding the support of 8 nominated members

[9] "Statewise Retirement". rajyasabha.nic.in.

[10] "Elections to three Rajya Sabha seats from Delhi, one from Sikkim on January 19". The Hindu. 2023-12-22. ISSN 0971-751X. Archived from the original on 2023-12-24. Retrieved 2025-10-20.

[11] "56 Rajya Sabha Seats From 15 States Go To Polls On February 27". Outlook India. 2024-01-29. Archived from the original on 2024-11-10. Retrieved 2025-10-20.

[12] "Rajya Sabha elections for 4 seats in Kerala and Maharashtra on June 25". India Today. 2024-05-27. Archived from the original on 2024-05-27. Retrieved 2025-10-20.

[13] "Elections to 12 Rajya Sabha Seats Scheduled for September 3: Election Commission". The New Indian Express. 2024-08-07. Archived from the original on 2024-09-10. Retrieved 2025-10-20.

[14] "BJP wins 9, allies 2 in RS bypolls for 12 seats; NDA hits majority mark for first time since 2014". The Times of India. 2024-08-28. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2025-11-19.

[15] "With six nominated members, NDA has slender majority in Rajya Sabha". The Economic Times. 2024-09-07. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 2025-11-19.

[16] "Membership of Rajya Sabha" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2025-11-21.

[17] Dutta, Prabhash K. (2020-06-19). "Rajya Sabha election: How MPs are elected to the upper house". India Today. Retrieved 2025-11-22.

[18] "Handbook for Returning Officers" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-02.

[19] "Nominations filed by 3 AAP candidates for Jan. 19 Rajya Sabha poll". The Hindu. 8 January 2024.

[20] "Trinamool, BJP field candidates from West Bengal for upcoming Rajya Sabha elections". India Today. 11 February 2024.

[Sonia_Gandhi_elected_unopposed_to_Rajya_Sabha_from_Rajasthan-21] 13.0 ^13.1 ^13.2 The Hindu (20 February 2024). "Sonia Gandhi elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan". Archived from the original on 20 February 2024. Retrieved 20 February 2024.

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2024 Rajya Sabha elections

Electoral system[edit | edit source]

Results[edit | edit source]

Members retiring and elected[edit | edit source]

January Election[edit | edit source]

Delhi[edit | edit source]

Sikkim[edit | edit source]

March Election[edit | edit source]

Andhra Pradesh[edit | edit source]

Bihar[edit | edit source]

Chhattisgarh[edit | edit source]

Gujarat[edit | edit source]

Haryana[edit | edit source]

Himachal Pradesh[edit | edit source]

Karnataka[edit | edit source]

Madhya Pradesh[edit | edit source]

Maharashtra[edit | edit source]

Telangana[edit | edit source]

Uttar Pradesh[edit | edit source]

Uttarakhand[edit | edit source]

West Bengal[edit | edit source]

Odisha[edit | edit source]

Rajasthan[edit | edit source]

Jharkhand[edit | edit source]

June election[edit | edit source]

Kerala[edit | edit source]

Nominations[edit | edit source]

By-elections[edit | edit source]

Andhra Pradesh[edit | edit source]

Assam[edit | edit source]

Bihar[edit | edit source]

Haryana[edit | edit source]

Madhya Pradesh[edit | edit source]

Maharashtra[edit | edit source]

Odisha[edit | edit source]

Rajasthan[edit | edit source]

Telangana[edit | edit source]

Tripura[edit | edit source]

West Bengal[edit | edit source]

See also[edit | edit source]

Notes[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]