2012 Rajya Sabha elections explained

Election Name:	2012 Rajya Sabha elections
Country:	India
Type:	parliamentary
Previous Election:	2011 Rajya Sabha elections
Previous Year:	2011
Next Election:	2013 Rajya Sabha elections
Next Year:	2013
Seats For Election:	(of 228 seats) to the Rajya Sabha
Leader2:	Arun Jaitley
Party2:	BJP
Image1:	File:IBSA-leaders Manmohan Singh.jpg
Leader1:	Manmohan Singh
Party1:	INC

Rajya Sabha elections were held on various dates in 2012, to elect members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber. The elections were held in January to elect respectively 3 members from NCT of Delhi,^[1] one member from Sikkim,^[2] and in March for 57 members from 15 States^[3] for the Rajya Sabha and in June for three members from Kerala.^[4] The bye-elections to Council of States were also held from the States of Uttar Pradesh^[4] and Maharashtra.^[5]

January Elections

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP
1	Karan Singh		Congress	Karan Singh	Congress
2	Janardan Dwivedi	Janardan Dwivedi
3	Parvez Hashmi	Parvez Hashmi

March Elections

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP
1	Raashid Alvi		Congress	Chiranjeevi	Congress
2	K. Keshava Rao	Renuka Chowdary
3	Dasari Narayana Rao	Rapolu Ananda Bhaskar
4	G. Sanjeeva Reddy	P. Govardhan Reddy
5	M. V. Mysura Reddy		TDP	T.Devender Goud	TDP
6	Syed Azeez Pasha		CPI	C. M. Ramesh	TDP

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP
1	Ravi Shankar Prasad		BJP	Ravi Shankar Prasad	BJP
2	Jabir Husain		RJD	Dharmendra Pradhan	BJP
3	Mahendra Prasad		JD(U)	Mahendra Prasad	JD(U)
4	Ali Anwar Ansari	Ali Anwar Ansari
5	Anil Kumar Sahani	Anil Kumar Sahani
6	Rajniti Prasad		RJD	Bashistha Narain Singh

Chhattisgarh

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP
1	Arun Jaitley		BJP	Arun Jaitley	BJP
2	Vijay Rupani	Shankarbhai Vegad
3	Kanjibhai Patel	Mansukh L. Mandaviya
4	Praveen Rashtrapal		Congress	Praveen Rashtrapal	Congress

Himachal Pradesh

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	S. S. Ahluwalia		BJP	Sanjiv Kumar		JMM
2	Mabel Rebello		Congress	Pradeep Kumar Balmuchu		Congress

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP
1	Hema Malini		BJP	R Ramakrishna	BJP
2	K. B. Shanappa	Basavaraj Patil Sedam	BJP		BJP
3	K. Rahman Khan		Congress	K. Rahman Khan	Congress
4	Rajeev Chandrasekhar		Independent	Rajeev Chandrasekhar	Independent

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party
1	Kaptan Singh Solanki		BJP	Kaptan Singh Solanki		BJP
2	Anusuiya Uikey	Najma Heptulla
3	Meghraj Jain	Faggan Singh Kulaste
4	Narayan Singh Kesari	Thawar Chand Gehlot
5	Vikram Singh	Satyavrat Chaturvedi			Congress

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP
1	Balavant Apte		BJP	Ajay Sancheti	BJP
2	Vilasrao Deshmukh		Congress	Vilasrao Deshmukh	Congress
3	Rajeev Shukla	Rajeev Shukla	Congress		Congress
4	Govindrao Adik		NCP	Vandana Chavan	NCP
5	Ranjitsinh Mohite-Patil	D.P.Tripathi	NCP		NCP
6	Manohar Joshi		SHS	Anil Desai	SHS

Seat No	Previous MP		Elected MP
1	Kishore Kumar Mohanti	BJD	Dilip Tirkey	BJD
2	Rudra Narayan Pany	BJP	A V Swamy
3	Sushila Tiriya	Congress	Ananga Udaya Singh Deo

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP
1	Abhishek Manu Singhvi		Congress	Abhishek Manu Singhvi	Congress
2	Narendra Budania	Narendra Budania	Congress		Congress
3	Ramdas Agarwal		BJP	Bhupender Yadav	BJP

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Kalraj Mishra		BJP	Jaya Bachchan		SP
2	Naresh Agrawal		SP	Naresh Agrawal
3	Veerpal Singh Yadav	Darshan Singh Yadav
4	Mahendra Mohan	Munvvar Saleem
5	Jai Prakash		BSP	Mayawati		BSP
6	Ganga Charan Rajput	Munquad Ali				BSP
7	Pramod Kureel	Brij Bhushan Tiwari			SP
8	Munkad	Kiranmay Nanda			SP
9	Vinay Katiyar		BJP	Vinay Katiyar		BJP
10	Mahmood Madani		RLD	Rasheed Masood		Congress	Disq 19/09/2013

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party
1	Tapan Kumar Sen		CPM	Tapan Kumar Sen		CPM
2	Moinul Hassan	Md. Nadimul Haque			AITC
3	Saman Pathak	Vivek Gupta
4	R. C. Singh	Kunal Kumar Ghosh
5	Mukul Roy		AITC	Mukul Roy

June Election

Seat No	Previous MP		Elected MP
1	P. J. Kurien	Congress	P. J. Kurien	Congress
2	K. E. Ismail	CPI	Joy Abraham	KC(M)
3	P. R. Rajan	CPM	C.P. Narayanan	CPM

Bye-elections

The following bye-elections were held in the year 2012.

The bye election was held, to fill the vacancy caused by death of Brij Bhushan Tiwari representing Uttar Pradesh. Alok Tiwari was elected unopposed on June 18, 2012, with the term till 2 April 2018.
The bye election was held, to fill the vacancy caused by death of Vilasrao Deshmukh representing Maharashtra. Rajni Patil was elected unopposed on December 30, with the term till 2 April 2018.

Seat No	State	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Uttar Pradesh	Brij Bhushan Tiwari		SP	Alok Tiwari		SP	^[8]
2	Maharashtra	Vilasrao Deshmukh		INC	Rajni Patil		INC	^[9]

Notes and References

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Web site: Biennial Election to the Council of States from the State of Sikkim.. https://web.archive.org/web/20120111131714/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/PN412012.pdf. dead. 11 January 2012. Election Commission of India new delhi. 14 August 2017.
Web site: Biennial Elections to the Council of States to fill the seats of members retiring in April, 2012.. https://web.archive.org/web/20140405052601/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/PN03032012.pdf. dead. 5 April 2014. 14 August 2017.
Web site: Biennial and Bye - Elections to the Council of States.. https://web.archive.org/web/20140405050310/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/PN01062012.pdf. dead. 5 April 2014. 14 August 2017.
Web site: Bye - Election to the Council of States from Maharashtra .. https://web.archive.org/web/20140405045944/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/PN_18122012.pdf. dead. 5 April 2014. 14 August 2017.
Web site: Arjun, Bhardwaj, Shinde elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha. The Tribune. 17 August 2017.
Web site: Statewise Retirement. 164.100.47.5. 14 August 2017.
Web site: SP`s Alok Tiwari elected to Rajya Sabha. 14 August 2017.
News: Nehru-Gandhi family loyalist Rajani Patil takes oath as Rajya Sabha member. 14 August 2017. PTI. Indian Express.