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 16 October 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.
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. Candidates 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.
Schedule Poll eventMarch electionJune electionhttps://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1079531448269548&set=pcb.1079531534936206July By-electionshttps://www.thehindu.com/news/national/west-bengal/bypolls-to-three-rajya-sabha-seats-from-west-bengal-on-july-24-eci/article71188236.ece/amp/October election Seats Up for Election 37 24 + 3 By-elections 3 By-elections 11 + 1 By-electionDate of Notification26 February 20261 June 20267 July 202629 September 2026Last date for filing nomination5 March 20268 June 202614 July 20266 October 2026Scrutiny of nomination6 March 20269 June 202615 July 20267 October 2026Last date for withdrawal of nomination9 March 202611 June 202617 July 20269 October 2026Date of Poll (if necessary) & Declaration of Result16 March 202618 June 202624 July 202616 October 2026
Results Alliance/ Party Seats Before Seats After+/- rowspan=15 NDA Bharatiya Janata Party 30 388 All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 2 11 Janata Dal (United) 2 2 Janata Dal (Secular) 1 01 Nationalist Congress Party 1 21 National People's Party 1 1 Rashtriya Lok Morcha 1 1 Republican Party of India (Athawale) 1 1 Telugu Desam Party 1 32 Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) 1 01 Janasena Party 0 11 Pattali Makkal Katchi 0 11 Shiv Sena 0 11 Independent (Dilip Ray and Parimal Nathwani) 0 22Total415413 rowspan=10 INDIA Indian National Congress 8 113 All India Trinamool Congress 7 43 Nationalist Congress Party - Sharadchandra Pawar 2 11 Rashtriya Janata Dal 2 02 Assam Jatiya Parishad 1 01 Communist Party of India (Marxist) 1 01 Jharkhand Mukti Morcha 1 1 Samajwadi Party 1 21 Shiv Sena (UBT) 1 01Total24195 rowspan=10 Others Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 4 22 Biju Janata Dal 3 12 Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party 3 03 Bahujan Samaj Party 1 1 Mizo National Front 1 01 Bharat Rashtra Samiti 1 01 Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam 0 11 United People's Party Liberal 0 11 Zoram People's Movement 0 11Total1367
March election
Elections were held in Bihar, Haryana & Odisha to elect those states' Rajya Sabha MPs on 16 March 2026. For the rest of the states, MPs were elected unopposed as the number of candidates matched the number of available seats after the nomination and withdrawal period.
Assam
#Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Bhubaneshwar Kalita9-Apr-2026Jogen Mohan2Rameswar TeliTerash Gowalla3Ajit Kumar BhuyanPramod Boro
Bihar
#Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Harivansh Narayan Singh9-Apr-2026Nitish Kumar2Ram Nath ThakurRam Nath Thakur3Prem Chand GuptaNitin Nabin4Amarendra Dhari SinghShivesh Kumar5Upendra KushwahaUpendra Kushwaha
Chhattisgarh
#Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1K. T. S. Tulsi9-Apr-2026Laxmi Verma2Phulo Devi NetamPhulo Devi Netam
Haryana
#Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Kiran Chaudhary 9-Apr-2026Sanjay Bhatia2Ram Chander JangraKaramvir Singh Boudh
Himachal Pradesh
#Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty 1Indu Goswami9-Apr-2026Anurag Sharma
Maharashtra
#Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Dhairyashil Patil2-Apr-2026Vinod Tawde2Bhagwat KaradRamrao Wadkute3Rajani PatilMaya Ivnate4Priyanka ChaturvediJyoti Waghmare5Ramdas AthawaleRamdas Athawale6Fouzia KhanParth Pawar 7Sharad PawarSharad Pawar
Odisha
#Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Mamata Mohanta2-Apr-2026Manmohan Samal 2Sujeet KumarSujeet Kumar3Munna KhanSantrupt Misra4Niranjan BishiDilip Ray
Tamil Nadu
#Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Tiruchi Siva2-Apr-2026 Tiruchi Siva2N. R. ElangoJ. Constantine Ravindran3P. SelvarasuM. Christopher Tilak4Kanimozhi N. V. N. SomuL. K. Sudhish5M. ThambiduraiM. Thambidurai6G. K. VasanAnbumani Ramadoss
Telangana
#Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Abhishek Manu Singhvi9-Apr-2026 Abhishek Manu Singhvi2K. R. Suresh ReddyVem Narender Reddy
West Bengal
#Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Subrata Bakshi2-Apr-2026Babul Supriyo2Ritabrata BanerjeeKoel Mallick3Mausam NoorMenaka Guruswamy4Saket GokhaleRajeev Kumar5Bikash Ranjan BhattacharyaRahul Sinha
June election Andhra Pradesh
#Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Sana Satish21-Jun-2026Sana Satish2Alla Ayodhya Rami ReddyBhashyam Rama Krishna3Pilli Subhash Chandra BoseChintakayala Vijay4Parimal NathwaniLingamaneni Ramesh
Arunachal Pradesh #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Nabam Rebia23-Jun-2026Tai Tagak
Gujarat #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Rambhai Mokariya21-Jun-2026Rajubhai Shukla2Ramilaben BaraMukeshbhai Rathwa3Narhari AminMansingh Parmar4Shaktisinh GohilJitendra Kanzariya
Jharkhand
#Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1VacantBaidyanath Ram2Deepak Prakash21-Jun-2026Parimal Nathwani
Karnataka #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Iranna B. Kadadi25-Jun-2026M. Nagaraja2K. NarayanPawan Khera3Mallikarjun KhargeMallikarjun Kharge4H. D. Deve Gowda JD(S)Mansoor Ali Khan
Madhya Pradesh
#Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1George Kurian21-Jun-2026Tarun Chugh2Sumer Singh SolankiRajneesh Agrawal3Digvijaya SinghMahesh Kewat
Manipur #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Leishemba Sanajaoba21-Jun-2026Adhikarimayum Sharda Devi
Meghalaya #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Wanweiroy Kharlukhi21-Jun-2026James Sangma
Mizoram #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1K. Vanlalvena19-Jul-2026K. Laltluangkima
Rajasthan #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MP Party1Rajendra Gehlot21-Jun-2026Satish Poonia2Ravneet Singh BittuAlka Gurjar3Neeraj DangiNeeraj Dangi
October election
Uttarakhand #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty 1Naresh Bansal25-Nov-2026Dinesh Arya
Uttar Pradesh #Previous MPPartyTerm endElected MPParty1Hardeep Singh Puri25-Nov-2026Dharmpal Singh2Dinesh SharmaRadhakant Ojha3Seema DwivediPrakash Pal4Brij LalVidyasagar Sonkar5Arun SinghGopi Krishna Pandey6Neeraj ShekharPriyanka Singh Rawat7 Geeta ShakyaRam Pratap Singh Chauhan8 B. L. VermaShruti Gangwar9Ram Gopal YadavRam Gopal Yadav10Ramji GautamDhanraj Nathwani
Nominated #Previous MPPartyTerm endNominated MPParty1Ranjan GogoiNOM16-Mar-2026Harivansh Narayan SinghNOM
By-elections
Maharashtra
#Previous MPPartyVacancy date Elected MPPartyTerm startTerm EndReason for Vacancy1Sunetra Pawar6-May-2026Rajendra Jain18-Jun-20264-Jul-2028Elected to 15th Maharashtra Assembly
Odisha
#Previous MPPartyVacancy date Elected MPPartyTerm startTerm endReason for Vacancy1Debashish Samantaray25-May-2026Debashish SamantarayBJP18-Jun-20263-Apr-2030Resignation
Tamil Nadu
#Previous MPPartyVacancy date Elected MPPartyTerm startTerm endReason for Vacancy1C. V. Shanmugam7-May-2026Praveen Chakravarty18-Jun-202629-Jun-2028Elected to 17th Tamil Nadu Assembly
West Bengal
#Previous MPPartyVacancy date Elected MPPartyTerm startTerm endReason for Vacancy1Sukhendu Sekhar Roy8-Jun-2026Sukhendu Sekhar Roy17-Jul-202618-Aug-2029Resignation2Sushmita Dev10-Jun-2026Sushmita Dev17-Jul-20262-Apr-20303Prakash Chik Baraik11-Jun-2026Prakash Chik Baraik17-Jul-202618-Aug-20294Koel Mallick16-Jul-2026Koel Mallick10-Oct-20262-Apr-2032
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