The 2025 Rajya Sabha elections were held as part of a routine six-year cycle of the upper house of the Parliament of India from 19 June to 24 October 2025 to elect 14 of its 245 members (including 2 by-elections), of which the states through their legislators elect 233, and the remaining 12 are appointed by the President.
The ruling National Democratic Alliance retained its majority in the house.
Electoral system 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.
For a single-seat election, each ballot is valued at one. When multiple seats are filled, the ballot value is set to one hundred.
A candidate is elected unopposed when the number of candidates matches the number of available seats after nominations and withdrawals period.
Results Alliance/ Party Seats +/–rowspan=4 NDABharatiya Janata Party3All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam2Asom Gana Parishad10Total6rowspan=5 INDIADravida Munnetra Kazhagam30Jammu & Kashmir National Conference3Makkal Needhi Maiam1Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam0Total7rowspan=2 OthersAam Aadmi Party10Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party0
Members retiring and elected
June election
Assam # Previous MPTerm endElected MP PartyTerm start 1 Mission Ranjan DasBJP14-Jun-2025 Kanad PurkayasthaBJP15-Jun-2025 2 Birendra Prasad Baishya AGP Birendra Prasad BaishyaAGP
Tamil Nadu # Previous MP Previous PartyTerm end Elected MPPartyTerm start 1 N. ChandrasegharanAIADMK24 July 2025 M. DhanapalAIADMK25 July 20252 Anbumani Ramadoss PMK I. S. Inbadurai 3 M. M. AbdullaDMK SalmaDMK4 M. Shanmugam S. R. Sivalingam 5 P. Wilson P. Wilson 6 Vaiko MDMK Kamal HaasanMNM
October election
Jammu and Kashmir #Previous MPPartyVacancy dateElected MPPartyTerm start1Vacant (Shamsheer Singh Manhas)10-Feb-2021Chowdry Mohammad Ramzan25-Oct-20252Vacant (Fayaz Ahmad Mir)Sajjad Ahmad Kichloo3Vacant (Nazir Ahmad Laway)15-Feb-2021Gurwinder Singh Oberoi4Vacant (Ghulam Nabi Azad)Sat Paul Sharma
By-elections Andhra Pradesh
#Previous MPPartyVacancy date Elected MPPartyTerm startTerm endReason for Vacancy1V. Vijayasai Reddy25-Jan-2025P. Venkata Satyanarayana9-May-202521-Jun-2028Resignation
Punjab
#Previous MPPartyVacancy dateElected MPPartyTerm startTerm endReason for Vacancy1Sanjeev Arora1-July-2025Rajinder Gupta17-Oct-202509-Apr-2028Elected to 16th Punjab Assembly
Nominations +#Nominated MPAffiliationFieldTerm startNominated byReference1Meenakshi JainNOMLiterature and Education13-July-2025Droupadi Murmu2Harsh Vardhan ShringlaBJPDiplomacy3Ujjwal NikamLaw4C. Sadanandan MasterSocial work
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