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Rajya Sabha elections were held throughout 2022, to elect the retiring members of the Rajya Sabha, the Indian Parliament's upper house.[1][2][3]

Elections to the 4 vacant seats from Jammu and Kashmir were not held in February as the union territory is under President's rule and the assembly has been dissolved.[4]

List of elections by states

  • Listed according to the dates
State Members retiring Date of retirement
Assam 2 2 April 2022
Himachal Pradesh 1
Kerala 3
Nagaland 1
Tripura 1
Punjab 5 9 April 2022
Andhra Pradesh 4 21 June 2022
Telangana 2
Chhattisgarh 2 29 June 2022
Madhya Pradesh 3
Tamil Nadu 6
Karnataka 4 30 June 2022
Odisha 3 1 July 2022
Maharashtra 6 4 July 2022
Punjab 2 4 July 2022
Rajasthan 4
Uttar Pradesh 11
Uttarakhand 1
Bihar 5 7 July 2022
Jharkhand 2
Haryana 2 1 August 2022
Total 70
State Vacant seats Date of vacancy
Telangana 1 4 December 2021
Bihar 1 26 December 2021
Odisha 1 27 April 2022
Tripura 1 26 June 2022

Results

Members retiring and elected

Note:

  • Listed according to date of retirement

Assam

No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Ripun Bora INC 02-Apr-2022 Rwngwra Narzary UPPL [5]
2 Ranee Narah INC 02-Apr-2022 Pabitra Margherita BJP

Himachal Pradesh

No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Anand Sharma INC 02-Apr-2022 Sikander Kumar BJP [6]

Kerala

No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 A. K. Antony INC 02-Apr-2022 Jebi Mather INC [7]
2 K. Somaprasad CPI(M) 02-Apr-2022 A. A. Rahim CPI(M)
3 M. V. Shreyams Kumar LJD 02-Apr-2022 P. Santhosh Kumar CPI

Nagaland

No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 K. G. Kenye NPF 02-Apr-2022 Phangnon Konyak BJP [8]

Tripura

No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Jharna Das CPI(M) 02-Apr-2022 Manik Saha BJP [9]

Punjab

No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa SAD 9 April 2022 Harbhajan Singh AAP [10]
2 Naresh Gujral Raghav Chadha
3 Pratap Singh Bajwa INC Sandeep Pathak
4 Shamsher Singh Dullo Ashok Mittal
5 Shwait Malik BJP Sanjeev Arora
6 Balwinder Singh Bhunder SAD 4 July 2022 Balbir Singh Seechewal
7 Ambika Soni INC Vikramjit Singh Sahney

Andhra Pradesh

No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party
1 V. Vijayasai Reddy YSRCP 21 June 2022 V. Vijayasai Reddy YSRCP [11]
2 Suresh Prabhu BJP 21 June 2022 R. Krishnaiah
3 Y. S. Chowdary 21 June 2022 S. Niranjan Reddy
4 T. G. Venkatesh 21 June 2022 Beeda Masthan Rao

Telangana

No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 V. Lakshmikantha Rao TRS 21 June 2022 B. Parthasaradhi Reddy TRS [12]
2 D. Srinivas 21 June 2022 D. Damodar Rao

Chhattisgarh

No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Ramvichar Netam BJP 29-Jun-2022 Rajeev Shukla INC [13]
2 Chhaya Verma INC 29-Jun-2022 Ranjeet Ranjan

Madhya Pradesh

No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 M. J. Akbar BJP 29-Jun-2022 Kavita Patidar BJP [14]
2 Sampatiya Uikey 29-Jun-2022 Sumitra Valmiki
3 Vivek Tankha INC 29-Jun-2022 Vivek Tankha INC

Tamil Nadu

No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 R. S. Bharathi DMK 29-Jun-2022 R. Girirajan DMK [15]
2 T. K. S. Elangovan 29-Jun-2022 S. Kalyanasundaram
3 K. R. N. Rajeshkumar 29-Jun-2022 K. R. N. Rajeshkumar
4 A. Navaneethakrishnan AIADMK 29-Jun-2022 P. Chidambaram INC
5 S. R. Balasubramoniyan 29-Jun-2022 C. V. Shanmugam AIADMK
6 A. Vijayakumar 29-Jun-2022 R. Dharmar

Karnataka

No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Nirmala Sitharaman BJP 30-Jun-2022 Nirmala Sitharaman BJP [16]
2 K. C. Ramamurthy 30-Jun-2022 Jaggesh
3 Oscar Fernandes INC 30-Jun-2022 Lehar Singh Siroya
4 Jairam Ramesh 30-Jun-2022 Jairam Ramesh INC

Odisha

No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Sasmit Patra BJD 1 July 2022 Sasmit Patra BJD [17]
2 Prasanna Acharya Manas Ranjan Mangaraj
3 N. Bhaskar Rao Sulata Deo

Maharashtra

No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Piyush Goyal BJP 04-Jul-2022 Piyush Goyal BJP [18]
2 Vinay Sahasrabuddhe 04-Jul-2022 Anil Sukhdevrao Bonde
3 Vikas Mahatme 04-Jul-2022 Dhananjay Mahadik
4 Praful Patel NCP 04-Jul-2022 Praful Patel NCP
5 P. Chidambaram INC 04-Jul-2022 Imran Pratapgarhi INC
6 Sanjay Raut SHS 04-Jul-2022 Sanjay Raut SHS

Rajasthan

No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Om Prakash Mathur BJP 04-Jul-2022 Randeep Surjewala INC [19]
2 Ram Kumar Verma 04-Jul-2022 Mukul Wasnik
3 Harshvardhan Singh Dungarpur 04-Jul-2022 Pramod Tiwari
4 Alphons Kannanthanam 04-Jul-2022 Ghanshyam Tiwari BJP

Uttar Pradesh

No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Surendra Singh Nagar BJP 04-Jul-2022 Surendra Singh Nagar BJP [20]
2 Shiv Pratap Shukla 04-Jul-2022 Laxmikant Bajpai
3 Sanjay Seth 04-Jul-2022 Radha Mohan Das Agarwal
4 Jai Prakash Nishad 04-Jul-2022 Baburam Nishad
5 Syed Zafar Islam 04-Jul-2022 Sangeeta Yadav
6 Rewati Raman Singh SP 04-Jul-2022 Darshana Singh
7 Sukhram Singh Yadav 04-Jul-2022 Mithlesh Kumar
8 Vishambhar Prasad Nishad 04-Jul-2022 K. Laxman
9 Satish Chandra Mishra BSP 04-Jul-2022 Jayant Chaudhary RLD
10 Ashok Siddharth 04-Jul-2022 Javed Ali Khan SP
11 Kapil Sibal INC 04-Jul-2022 Kapil Sibal IND

Uttarakhand

No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Pradeep Tamta INC 04-Jul-2022 Kalpana Saini BJP [21]

Bihar

No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Gopal Narayan Singh BJP 07-Jul-2022 Shambhu Sharan Patel BJP [22]
2 Satish Chandra Dubey 07-Jul-2022 Satish Chandra Dubey
3 Ramchandra Prasad Singh JD(U) 07-Jul-2022 Khiru Mahto JD(U)
4 Sharad Yadav 07-Jul-2022 Faiyaz Ahmad RJD
5 Misa Bharti RJD 07-Jul-2022 Misa Bharti

Jharkhand

No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi BJP 07-Jul-2022 Aditya Sahu BJP [23]
2 Mahesh Poddar BJP 07-Jul-2022 Mahua Maji JMM

Haryana

No Previous MP Party Term end Elected MP Party Ref.
1 Dushyant Kumar Gautam BJP 01-Aug-2022 Krishan Lal Panwar BJP [24]
2 Subhash Chandra IND 01-Aug-2022 Kartikeya Sharma IND

By-elections

Aside from automatic elections, unforeseen vacancies caused by members' resignation, death or disqualification, are unless a few months before the expected natural expiry of the term of tenure, filled via by-elections, which for the Rajya Sabha often take some months to organise.

Bihar

  • On 26 December 2021, Mahendra Prasad died
No Former MP Party Date of vacancy Elected MP Party Date of appointment Date of retirement Ref.
1 Mahendra Prasad JD(U) 26 December 2021 Anil Hegde JD(U) 30 May 2022 2 April 2024 [25]

Telangana

  • On 4 December 2021, Banda Prakash resigned
No Former MP Party Date of vacancy Elected MP Party Date of appointment Date of retirement Ref.
1 Banda Prakash TRS 4 December 2021 Vaddiraju Ravichandra TRS 30 May 2022 2 April 2024 [26]

Odisha

  • On 27 April 2022, Subhash Chandra Singh was elected the Mayor of Cuttack.
No Former MP Party Date of vacancy Elected MP Party Date of appointment Date of retirement Ref.
1 Subhash Chandra Singh BJD 27 April 2022 Niranjan Bishi BJD 13 June 2022 2 April 2026 [27]

Tripura

  • On 26 June 2022 Manik Saha was elected to the Tripura Legislative Assembly.
No Former MP Party Date of vacancy Elected MP Party Date of appointment Date of retirement Ref.
1 Manik Saha BJP 26 June 2022 Biplab Deb BJP 22 September 2022 2 April 2028 [28]

Nominations

Nominated members

No Previous MP Party Term end Nominated MP Party Date of appointment Ref.
1 Narendra Jadhav Nominated 24-Apr-2022 Ilaiyaraaja Nominated 06-Jul-2022 [29]
2 Mary Kom Nominated 24-Apr-2022 P. T. Usha Nominated 06-Jul-2022
3 Roopa Ganguly Nominated (BJP) 24-Apr-2022 V. Vijayendra Prasad Nominated 06-Jul-2022
4 Swapan Dasgupta Nominated (BJP) 24-Apr-2022 Veerendra Heggade Nominated 06-Jul-2022
5 Suresh Gopi Nominated (BJP) 24-Apr-2022 Ghulam Ali Khatana Nominated (BJP) 10-Sep-2022 [30]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Including 4 casual vacancies

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source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Rajya_Sabha_elections