2020 Rajya Sabha elections were the set of indirect elections by the members of State legislatures of India, to elect new members to fill vacancies in the Rajya Sabha – the upper house of the Parliament of India. The elections are held annually and throughout the year on an ad hoc basis. The elections in 2020 are for a total of 72 seats of which 55 of them were to be elected by March 26. The remaining were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Election Commission of India later announced all the elections for the remaining 24 Rajya Sabha seats were to be held on 19 June 2020.
On 12 June 2020, Election commission of India declared unopposed victory over 4 seats of Karnataka and 1 seat of Arunachal Pradesh. Leaving behind 19 seats to go for elections on 19 June 2020.
On 2 November 2020, Election commission of India declared unopposed victory over 10 seats of Uttar Pradesh and 1 seat of Uttarakhand.
Results Alliance/ Party Seats +/–rowspan=11 NDABharatiya Janata Party30All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam2 Janata Dal (United)2 Bodoland People's Front1 0 Mizo National Front1 National People's Party1 Republican Party of India (Athawale)1 0 Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar)1 Independent (Sanjay Kakade)0Independent (Parimal Nathwani)0Total39rowspan=7 UPAIndian National Congress9 Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam3 Nationalist Congress Party2 0 Rashtriya Janata Dal2 Jharkhand Mukti Morcha1 Independent (Ajit Kumar Bhuyan)1 Total18rowspan=10 OthersAll India Trinamool Congress40Biju Janata Dal40Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party4Telangana Rashtra Samithi2Bahujan Samaj Party1Communist Party of India (Marxist)1Janata Dal (Secular)1Loktantrik Janata Dal1Samajwadi Party1 Shiv Sena1 0
Members retiring & Elected
April Election Maharashtra #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty 1 Sharad PawarNCP02-Apr-2020Sharad PawarNCP 2Majeed Memon02-Apr-2020Fouzia Khan 3Husain DalwaiINC02-Apr-2020Rajiv SatavINC 4Rajkumar DhootSS02-Apr-2020Priyanka ChaturvediSS 5Ramdas AthawaleRPI(A)02-Apr-2020Ramdas AthawaleRPI(A) 6Amar Shankar SableBJP02-Apr-2020Udayanraje BhosaleBJP 7Sanjay KakadeIND02-Apr-2020Bhagwat Karad
Odisha #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Ranjib BiswalINC02-Apr-2020Subhash Chandra Singh BJD2Narendra Kumar Swain BJD02-Apr-2020Munna Khan BJD3Sarojini Hembram BJD02-Apr-2020Sujeet Kumar BJD4Vacant (Anubhav Mohanty)Mamata Mohanta BJD
Tamil Nadu #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Sasikala PushpaAIADMK02-Apr-2020M. ThambiduraiAIADMK2Vijila Sathyananth02-Apr-2020K. P. Munusamy3S. Muthukaruppan02-Apr-2020G. K. VasanTMC4K. Selvaraj02-Apr-2020Anthiyur P. SelvarajDMK5Tiruchi SivaDMK02-Apr-2020Tiruchi Siva6T. K. RangarajanCPI(M)02-Apr-2020N. R. Elango
West Bengal #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Ahmed Hassan ImranAITC02-Apr-2020Dinesh TrivediAITC2Kanwar Deep SinghAITC02-Apr-2020Arpita GhoshAITC3Jogen ChowdhuryAITC02-Apr-2020Mausam NoorAITC4Manish GuptaAITC02-Apr-2020Subrata BakshiAITC5Ritabrata Banerjee IND02-Apr-2020Bikash Ranjan BhattacharyaCPI(M)
Andhra Pradesh #Previous MPPartyTerm end Elected MPParty1T. Subbarami ReddyINC09-Apr-2020Alla Ayodhya Rami ReddyYSRCP2Mohd. Ali Khan09-Apr-2020Pilli Subhash Chandra Bose3Thota Seetharama LakshmiTDP09-Apr-2020Mopidevi Venkataramana4K. Keshava RaoTRS09-Apr-2020Parimal Nathwani
Assam #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Biswajit DaimaryBPF09-Apr-2020Biswajit DaimaryBPF2Vacant (Bhubaneshwar Kalita)Bhubaneshwar KalitaBJP3Vacant (Sanjaya Sinh)Ajit Kumar BhuyanIND
Bihar #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Harivansh Narayan SinghJD(U)09-Apr-2020Harivansh Narayan SinghJD(U)2Ram Nath Thakur09-Apr-2020Ram Nath Thakur3Kahkashan Perween09-Apr-2020Prem Chand GuptaRJD4Ravindra Kishore SinhaBJP09-Apr-2020Amarendra Dhari Singh5 C. P. Thakur09-Apr-2020 Vivek Thakur BJP
Chhattisgarh #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Ranvijay Singh JudevBJP09-Apr-2020K. T. S. TulsiINC2Motilal VoraINC09-Apr-2020Phulo Devi NetamINC
Gujarat #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Chunibhai K GohelBJP09-Apr-2020Abhay BhardwajBJP2Shambhuprasad TundiyaBJP09-Apr-2020Ramilaben BaraBJP3Lal Sinh VadodiaBJP09-Apr-2020Narhari AminBJP4Madhusudan MistryINC09-Apr-2020Shaktisinh GohilINC
Haryana #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Selja KumariINC 09-Apr-2020Deepender Singh HoodaINC2Vacant (Ram Kumar Kashyap)Ram Chander JangraBJP
Himachal Pradesh #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty 1Viplove ThakurINC 09-Apr-2020Indu GoswamiBJP
Jharkhand #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Prem Chand GuptaRJD09-Apr-2020Shibu SorenJMM2Parimal NathwaniIND09-Apr-2020Deepak PrakashBJP
Madhya Pradesh #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Satyanarayan JatiyaBJP09-Apr-2020Jyotiraditya ScindiaBJP2Prabhat JhaBJP09-Apr-2020Sumer Singh SolankiBJP3Digvijaya SinghINC09-Apr-2020Digvijaya SinghINC
Manipur #Previous MPPartyTerm end Elected MPParty1Bhabananda SinghBJP09-Apr-2020Leishemba SanajaobaBJP
Rajasthan #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MP Party1Narayan Lal PanchariyaBJP09-Apr-2020Rajendra GehlotBJP2Ramnarayan Dudi09-Apr-2020K. C. VenugopalINC3Vijay Goel09-Apr-2020Neeraj Dangi
Telangana #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Garikapati Mohan RaoBJP 09-Apr-2020K. Keshava RaoBRS2K. V. P. Ramachandra RaoINC 09-Apr-2020K. R. Suresh ReddyBRS
Meghalaya #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Wansuk SyiemINC12-Apr-2020 Wanweiroy KharlukhiNPP
June Election
Arunachal Pradesh #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Mukut MithiINC23-Jun-2020Nabam RebiaBJP
Karnataka #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Prabhakar KoreBJP25-Jun-2020Ashok GastiBJP2B. K. HariprasadINC25-Jun-2020Eranna Kadadi3Rajeev Gowda25-Jun-2020Mallikarjun KhargeINC4D. Kupendra Reddy JD(S)25-Jun-2020H. D. Deve Gowda JD(S)
Mizoram #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Ronald Sapa TlauINC18-Jul-2020K. VanlalvenaMNF
November Election
Uttar Pradesh #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty 1Ram Gopal YadavSP25-Nov-2020Ram Gopal YadavSP2Ravi Prakash Verma25-Nov-2020Seema DwivediBJP3Chandrapal Singh Yadav25-Nov-2020Hardwar Dubey4Javed Ali Khan25-Nov-2020Brij Lal5Hardeep Singh PuriBJP25-Nov-2020Hardeep Singh Puri6Arun Singh25-Nov-2020Arun Singh7Neeraj Shekhar25-Nov-2020Neeraj Shekhar8P. L. PuniaINC 25-Nov-2020 Geeta Shakya9Veer SinghBSP25-Nov-2020 B. L. Verma10Rajaram25-Nov-2020Ramji GautamBSP
Uttarakhand #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty 1Raj BabbarINC25-Nov-2020Naresh BansalBJP
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.
Haryana
On 20 January 2020 Birender Singh Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Haryana
# Former MP Party Date of Vacancy Elected MP Party Term start Term end1Birender SinghBJP20-Jan-2020Dushyant Kumar GautamBJP16-Mar-202001-Aug-2022
Bihar
On 8 October 2020, Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan died. # Former MP Party Date of Vacancy Elected MPPartyTerm start Term end 1Ram Vilas PaswanLJP 08-Oct-2020Sushil Kumar ModiBJP 07-Dec-2020 02-Apr-2024
Uttar Pradesh
On 27 March 2020 Beni Prasad Verma died. On 1 August 2020 Amar Singh died. # Former MP Party Date of Vacancy Elected MPParty Term start Term end1Beni Prasad VermaSP27-Mar-2020Jai Prakash NishadBJP17-Aug-202004-Jul-20222Amar SinghIND 01-Aug-2020 Syed Zafar IslamBJP11-Sep-202004-Jul-2022
Kerala
On 28 May 2020 Veerendra Kumar died.
# Former MP Party Date of Vacancy Elected MPParty Term start Term end1M. P. Veerendra KumarIND 28-May-2020M. V. Shreyams KumarLJD24-Aug-2020 02-Apr-2022
Karnataka
On 17 September 2020 Ashok Gasti died.
# Former MP Party Date of Vacancy Elected MPParty Term start Term end1Ashok GastiBJP 17-Sep-2020 K. NarayanBJP 24-Nov-2020 25-Jun-2026
Nominations Note: Listed According Date Of Retirement
Nominated #Previous MPPartyTerm endNominated MPPartyTerm start Reference 1 K. T. S. TulsiNominated25-Feb-2020Ranjan GogoiNominated16-Mar-2020
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