2026 Rajya Sabha elections

2026 Rajya Sabha elections
73 of the 233 elected seats in the Rajya Sabha; 123 total seats needed for a majority
Incumbent Majority; National Democratic Alliance;	; ;

The 2026 Rajya Sabha elections will be held as part of a routine six-year cycle of the upper house of the Parliament of India from 16 March to November 2026 to elect 72 of its 245 members, of which the states through their legislators elect 233, and the remaining 12 are appointed by the President.^[1]^[2]

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. Candidates have to reach a specific quota of votes in order to win a seat.^[3]

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

For a single-seat election, each ballot is valued at one. When multiple seats are filled, the ballot value is set to one hundred.^[4]

A candidate is elected unopposed when the number of candidates matches the number of available seats after nominations and withdrawals period.^[5]

Schedule[edit | edit source]

Poll event	March election^[2]
Date of Notification	26 February 2026
Last date for filing nomination	5 March 2026
Scrutiny of nomination	6 March 2026
Last date for withdrawal of nomination	9 March 2026
Date of Poll (if necessary) & Declaration of Result	16 March 2026

Members Retiring and Elected[edit | edit source]

March Election[edit | edit source]

Election were held in Bihar, Haryana & Odisha to elect its Rajya Sabha MPs on 16 March 2026. For rest of the states, MPs have won uncontested as number of candidates matched the number of available seats after nominations and withdrawals period.^[6]

Assam[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP
1	Bhubaneshwar Kalita		BJP	09-Apr-2026	Jogen Mohan	BJP
2	Rameswar Teli	Terash Gowalla
3	Ajit Kumar Bhuyan		Assam Jatiya Parishad		Pramod Boro	United People's Party Liberal

Bihar[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP
1	Harivansh Narayan Singh		JD(U)	09-Apr-2026	Nitish Kumar	JD(U)
2	Ram Nath Thakur	Ram Nath Thakur
3	Prem Chand Gupta		RJD		Nitin Nabin	BJP
4	Amarendra Dhari Singh	Shivesh Kumar
5	Upendra Kushwaha		Rashtriya Lok Morcha		Upendra Kushwaha	Rashtriya Lok Morcha

Chhattisgarh[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	K. T. S. Tulsi		INC	09-Apr-2026	Laxmi Verma		BJP
2	Phulo Devi Netam	Phulo Devi Netam		09-Apr-2026	INC

Haryana[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Kiran Chaudhary		BJP	09-Apr-2026	Sanjay Bhatia		BJP
2	Ram Chander Jangra	Karamvir Singh Boudh		09-Apr-2026	INC

Himachal Pradesh[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Indu Goswami		BJP	09-Apr-2026	Anurag Sharma		INC

Maharashtra[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP
1	Dhairyashil Patil		BJP	02-Apr-2026	Vinod Tawde	BJP
2	Bhagwat Karad	Ramrao Wadkute
3	Rajani Patil		INC		Maya Ivnate
4	Priyanka Chaturvedi		Shiv Sena		Jyoti Waghmare	Shiv Sena
5	Ramdas Athawale		RPI(A)		Ramdas Athawale	RPI(A)
6	Fouzia Khan		Nationalist Congress Party – Sharadchandra Pawar		Parth Pawar	NCP
7	Sharad Pawar	Sharad Pawar			Nationalist Congress Party – Sharadchandra Pawar

Odisha[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP
1	Mamata Mohanta		BJP	02-Apr-2026	Manmohan Samal	BJP
2	Sujeet Kumar	Sujeet Kumar
3	Munna Khan		BJD		Santrupta Mishra	BJD
4	Niranjan Bishi	Dilip Ray			Independent

Tamil Nadu[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP
1	Tiruchi Siva		DMK	02-Apr-2026	Tiruchi Siva	DMK
2	N. R. Elango	J. Constantine Ravindran
3	P. Selvarasu	M. Christopher Tilak			INC
4	Kanimozhi N. V. N. Somu	L. K. Sudhish			DMDK
5	M. Thambidurai		AIADMK		M. Thambidurai	AIADMK
6	G. K. Vasan		Tamil Maanila Congress		Anbumani Ramadoss	PMK

Telangana[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Abhishek Manu Singhvi		INC	09-Apr-2026	Abhishek Manu Singhvi		INC
2	K. R. Suresh Reddy		Bharat Rashtra Samithi	09-Apr-2026	Vem Narender Reddy

West Bengal[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP
1	Subrata Bakshi		Trinamool Congress	02-Apr-2026	Babul Supriyo	Trinamool Congress
2	Ritabrata Banerjee	Koel Mallick
3	Mausam Noor^{[lower-alpha 7]}	Menaka Guruswamy
4	Saket Gokhale	Rajeev Kumar
5	Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya		CPI (M)		Rahul Sinha	BJP

May Election[edit | edit source]

Andhra Pradesh[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP
1	Sana Satish	TDP	21-Jun-2026		TDP
2	Alla Ayodhya Rami Reddy	YSRCP
3	Pilli Subhash Chandra Bose
4	Parimal Nathwani			Jana Sena

Arunachal Pradesh[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Nabam Rebia		BJP	23-Jun-2026			BJP

Gujarat[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP		Term end
1	Rambhai Mokariya	BJP	21-Jun-2026	BJP
2	Ramilaben Bara
3	Narhari Amin
4	Shaktisinh Gohil	INC

Jharkhand[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Vacant (Shibu Soren)						JMM
2	Deepak Prakash		BJP	21-Jun-2026

Karnataka[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP
1	Iranna B. Kadadi	BJP	25-Jun-2026		BJP
2	K. Narayan			INC
3	Mallikarjun Kharge	INC
4	H. D. Deve Gowda	JD(S)

Madhya Pradesh[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP		Term end
1	George Kurian	BJP	21-Jun-2026	BJP
2	Sumer Singh Solanki
3	Digvijaya Singh	INC		INC

Manipur[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Leishemba Sanajaoba		BJP	21-Jun-2026			BJP

Meghalaya[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Wanweiroy Kharlukhi		NPP	21-Jun-2026			NPP

Mizoram[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	K. Vanlalvena		Mizo National Front	19-Jul-2026			Zoram People's Movement

Rajasthan[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP		Term end
1	Rajendra Gehlot	BJP	21-Jun-2026	BJP
2	Ravneet Singh Bittu
3	Neeraj Dangi	INC		INC

November Election[edit | edit source]

Uttarakhand[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Naresh Bansal		BJP	25-Nov-2026			BJP

Uttar Pradesh[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Hardeep Singh Puri	BJP	25-Nov-2026			BJP
2	Dinesh Sharma
3	Seema Dwivedi
4	Brij Lal
5	Arun Singh
6	Neeraj Shekhar
7	Geeta Shakya
8	B. L. Verma			SP
9	Ram Gopal Yadav	SP
10	Ramji Gautam	BSP			^{[lower-alpha 8]}

Nominated[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Nominated MP	Party
1	Ranjan Gogoi		NOM	16-Mar-2026	Harivansh Narayan Singh		NOM

By-elections[edit | edit source]

Maharashtra[edit | edit source]

#	Previous MP	Party		Vacancy date	Elected MP	Party		Term start	Term end	Reason for Vacancy
1	Sunetra Pawar		NCP	TBD

Notes[edit | edit source]

↑ including 1 casual vacancy
↑ excluding 12 nominated seats.
↑ out of 245 (including 12 nominated seats.)
↑ excluding 5 nominated members.
↑ excluding 12 nominated members.
↑ including the support of 12 nominated members
↑ Defected from TMC to INC in January 2026.^[7]
↑ Quota = 403 ÷ (10+1) + 1 = 37 votes. NDA with 294 MLAs could win seven seats and INDIA with 104 MLAs could win two seats; the remaining votes are NDA 35, INDIA 30 and Others 3. Since none reach 37, the result of the tenth seat depends on the stand of the three Other MLAs (JD(L)-2, BSP-1) and three by-elections.

References[edit | edit source]

↑ "Statewise Retirement". rajyasabha.nic.in.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 "Elections To 37 Rajya Sabha Seats Falling Vacant Across 10 States On March 16: EC". ETV Bharat News. 2026-02-18. Retrieved 2026-02-22.
↑ "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.
↑ "Rajya Sabha polls: Tight contests loom in Bihar, Odisha, Haryana after 26 elected unopposed". Moneycontrol. 2026-03-16. Retrieved 2026-03-16.
↑ "Ahead of Bengal polls, TMC Rajya Sabha MP Mausam Noor quits party, returns to Congress". The New Indian Express. 2026-01-04. Retrieved 2026-02-28.

[1] uding 1 casual vacancy

[2] xcluding 12 nominated seats.

[3] ut of 245 (including 12 nominated seats.)

[4] xcluding 5 nominated members.

[5] xcluding 12 nominated members.

[6] uding the support of 12 nominated members

[14] Defected from TMC to INC in January 2026.^[7]

[15] Quota = 403 ÷ (10+1) + 1 = 37 votes. NDA with 294 MLAs could win seven seats and INDIA with 104 MLAs could win two seats; the remaining votes are NDA 35, INDIA 30 and Others 3. Since none reach 37, the result of the tenth seat depends on the stand of the three Other MLAs (JD(L)-2, BSP-1) and three by-elections.

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

[:0-8] 2.0 ^2.1 "Elections To 37 Rajya Sabha Seats Falling Vacant Across 10 States On March 16: EC". ETV Bharat News. 2026-02-18. Retrieved 2026-02-22.

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

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

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

[12] "Rajya Sabha polls: Tight contests loom in Bihar, Odisha, Haryana after 26 elected unopposed". Moneycontrol. 2026-03-16. Retrieved 2026-03-16.

[13] "Ahead of Bengal polls, TMC Rajya Sabha MP Mausam Noor quits party, returns to Congress". The New Indian Express. 2026-01-04. Retrieved 2026-02-28.

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