2014 Rajya Sabha elections explained

Election Name:	2014 Rajya Sabha elections
Country:	India
Type:	parliamentary
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	2013 Rajya Sabha elections
Previous Year:	2013
Next Election:	2015 Rajya Sabha elections
Next Year:	2015
Seats For Election:	72 seats to the Rajya Sabha
Election Date:	Various dates in 2014
Leader1:	Manmohan Singh
Party1:	Indian National Congress
Leader Since1:	21 March 1998
Leaders Seat1:	Assam
Alliance1:	United Progressive Alliance
Seats Before1:	72
Seats1:	69
Seat Change1:	3
Leader2:	Arun Jaitley
Party2:	Bharatiya Janata Party
Leader Since2:	3 June 2009
Leaders Seat2:	Gujarat
Alliance2:	National Democratic Alliance (India)
Seats Before2:	48
Seats2:	45
Seat Change2:	3

Rajya Sabha elections were held on three dates in 2014, to elect members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber. The elections were held in February, June, and November to elect respectively 55, 6, and 11 of its 245 members, from 16 of the States.^{[1] [2] [3]} They are held by an open ballot (for public scrutiny) on a single transferable vote (STV) basis among State legislators. Being even-numbered, 2014 was a year in which about 30% of the State Legislature-elected 233-seat component of the body is elected.

In addition to the 72 seats re-filled in this year of the six-year cycle (as the term of seat tenure is six years), 13 by-elections were held in 2014.

As of 2020, this is the last year in which the Bharatiya Janata Party has lost seats.

February elections

The elections in February were from 16 State legislatures, and all were held on February 7, 2014.

Maharashtra

Has 19 members.

	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Husain Dalwai		INC	Husain Dalwai		INC	^[4]
2	Murli Deora	Murli Deora
3	Yogendra P. Tiwari		NCP	Sharad Pawar		NCP
4	Janardan Waghmare	Majeed Memon
5	Rajkumar Dhoot		SHS	Rajkumar Dhoot		SHS
6	Bharatkumar Raut	Sanjay Kakade			Ind
7	Prakash Javadekar		BJP	Ramdas Athawale		RPI(A)

Odisha

Has 10 members.

	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Mangala Kisan		BJD	Sarojini Hembram		BJD
2	Renubala Pradhan	Anubhav Mohanty
3	Balbir Punj		BJP	Ananga Udaya Singh Deo
4	Ramachandra Khuntia		INC	Ranjib Biswal		INC

Tamil Nadu

Has 18 members.

	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	N. Balaganga		ADMK	S. Muthukaruppan		ADMK
2	G. K. Vasan		INC	Vijila Sathyananth
3	Jayanthi Natarajan	K. Selvaraj
4	S. Amir Ali Jinnah		DMK	Sasikala Pushpa
5	Vasanthi Stanley	Tiruchi Siva			DMK
6	T. K. Rangarajan		CPM	T. K. Rangarajan		CPM

West Bengal

Has 16 members.

	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Tarini Kanta Roy		CPM	Ritabrata Banerjee		CPM
2	Prasanta Chatterjee	Kanwar Deep Singh			TMC
3	Shyamal Chakraborty	Jogen Chowdhury
4	Barun Mukherji		AIFB	Ahmed Hassan Imran
5	Ahmed Saeed Malihabadi		Ind	Mithun Chakraborty

Andhra Pradesh

Has 11 members.

Sr No	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	T. Subbarami Reddy		INC	T. Subbarami Reddy		INC
2	Mohd. Ali Khan			Mohd. Ali Khan
3	K. V. P. Ramachandra Rao			K. V. P. Ramachandra Rao
4	Nandi Yellaiah			K. Keshava Rao		TRS
5	T. Ratna Bai			Garikapati Mohan Rao		TDP
6	Nandamuri Harikrishna		TDP	Thota Seetharama Lakshmi

Assam

Has 7 members.

	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Biswajit Daimary		BPF	Biswajit Daimary		BPF
2	Bhubaneswar Kalita		INC	Bhubaneswar Kalita		INC
3	Birendra Prasad Baishya		AGP	Sanjay Sinh

Bihar

Has 16 members.

	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	C. P. Thakur		BJP	C. P. Thakur		BJP
2	Prem Chand Gupta		RJD	Ravindra Kishore Sinha
3	Shivanand Tiwari		JDU	Kahkashan Perween		JDU
4	N. K. Singh	Harivansh Narayan Singh
5	Sabir Ali	Ram Nath Thakur

Chhattisgarh

Has 5 members.

	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Motilal Vora		INC	Motilal Vora		INC
2	Shivpratap Singh		BJP	Ranvijay Singh Judev		BJP

Gujarat

Has 11 members.

	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Parsottambhai Rupala		BJP	Chunibhai K Gohel		BJP
2	Natubhai Thakore	Shambhuprasad Tundiya
3	Bharatsinh Parmar	Lal Sinh Vadodia
4	Alka Balram Kshatriya		INC	Madhusudan Mistry		INC

Haryana

Has 5 members.

	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Ram Prakash		INC	Selja Kumari		INC
2	Ishwar Singh	Ram Kumar Kashyap			INLD

Himachal Pradesh

Has 3 members.

Jharkhand

Has 6 members.

	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Jai Prakash Narayan Singh		BJP	Prem Chand Gupta		RJD
2	Parimal Nathwani		Ind	Parimal Nathwani		Ind

Madhya Pradesh

Has 11 members.

	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Prabhat Jha		BJP	Prabhat Jha		BJP
2	Maya Singh	Satyanarayan Jatiya
3	Raghunandan Sharma	Digvijaya Singh			INC

Manipur

Has 1 member.

Rajasthan

Has 10 members.

	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Om Prakash Mathur		BJP	Narayan Lal Panchariya		BJP
2	Gyan Prakash Pilania	Ramnarayan Dudi
3	Prabha Thakur		INC	Vijay Goel

Meghalaya

Has 1 member.

June elections

Arunachal Pradesh

Has 1 member.

Karnataka

Has 12 members.

	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	B. K. Hariprasad		INC	B. K. Hariprasad		INC
2	S M Krishna	Rajeev Gowda
3	Prabhakar Kore		BJP	Prabhakar Kore		BJP
4	Rama Jois	D. Kupendra Reddy			JDS

Mizoram

Has 1 member.

November elections

The elections in November were from Uttar Pradesh and Uttarkhand, and were held on November 20, 2014.

Has 31 members.

	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Kusum Rai		BJP	Manohar Parrikar		BJP
2	Ram Gopal Yadav		SP	Ram Gopal Yadav		SP
3	Amar Singh		Ind	Chandrapal Singh Yadav
4	Brajesh Pathak		BSP	Javed Ali Khan
5	Brijlal Khabari	Tazeen Fatma
6	Avtar Singh Karimpuri	Neeraj Shekhar
7	Akhilesh Das Gupta	Ravi Prakash Verma
8	Veer Singh	Veer Singh			BSP
9	Rajaram	Rajaram
10	Mohammed Adeeb		Ind	P. L. Punia		INC

Has 3 members.

Bye-elections

13 by-elections were held (caused by resignation, death or disqualification).

Seat No	State	Party			Party			Reference
1	Uttar Pradesh	S. P. Singh Baghel		BSP	Vishambhar Prasad Nishad		SP	^[5] ^[6]
1	Andhra Pradesh	N. Janardhana Reddy		INC	Nirmala Sitharaman		BJP	^[7]
1	Bihar	Rajiv Pratap Rudy		BJP	Sharad Yadav		JD(U)	^[8]
2		Ram Kripal Yadav		RJD	Pavan Kumar Varma
3		Ram Vilas Paswan		LJP	Gulam Rasool Balyawi
1	Madhya Pradesh	Faggan Singh Kulaste		BJP	Prakash Javdekar		BJP
1	Maharashtra	Tariq Anwar		NCP	Praful Patel		NCP
2	Madhya Pradesh	Kaptan Singh Solanki		BJP	Meghraj Jain		BJP	^[9] ^[10]
1	Tamil Nadu	T. M. Selvaganapathy		DMK	A. Navaneethakrishnan		AIADMK	^[11] ^[12]
1	Odisha	Shashi Bhusan Behera		BJD	Bhupinder Singh		BJD	^[13]
2		Rabinarayan Mohapatra	A U Singh Deo
1	Haryana	Ch. Birender Singh		INC	Ch. Birender Singh		BJP	^[14]
2		Ranbir Singh Prajapati		INLD	Suresh Prabhu

Bihar

Seat No	State	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Bihar	Rajiv Pratap Rudy		BJP	Sharad Yadav		JD(U)
2		Ram Kripal Yadav		RJD	Pavan Kumar Varma
3		Ram Vilas Paswan		LJP	Gulam Rasool Balyawi

Notes and References

1. Web site: Archived copy . eci.nic.in . 15 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150426004038/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/PN55_27102014.pdf . 26 April 2015 . dead.
2. Web site: Archived copy . eci.nic.in . 15 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140720003547/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/PN25_19052014.pdf . 20 July 2014 . dead.
3. Web site: Archived copy . eci.nic.in . 15 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140203023949/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/PN_13012014.pdf . 3 February 2014 . dead.
4. Web site: Statewise Retirement. 164.100.47.5. 12 June 2016.
5. Web site: SP Candidate Nishad Elected Unopposed to Rajya Sabha . Outlook Magazine . 16 August 2017.
6. Web site: Bye-elections to the Council of States from various States.. https://web.archive.org/web/20140719210133/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/PN27_27052014.pdf. dead. 19 July 2014. Election Commission of India, New Delhi.. 16 August 2017.
7. Web site: Union minister Nirmala Sitharaman files Rajya Sabha nomination.
8. Web site: JD-U nominates Sharad Yadav for Rajya Sabha poll. economictimes.indiatimes.com/. 16 August 2017. 16 August 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170816203953/http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/jd-u-nominates-sharad-yadav-for-rajya-sabha-poll/articleshow/36304482.cms. dead.
9. Web site: Bye-Election to the Council of States from Madhya Pradesh.. https://web.archive.org/web/20150426112735/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/PN40_01092014.pdf. dead. 26 April 2015. Election Commission of India, New Delhi.. 16 August 2017.
10. Web site: Meghraj Jain of BJP elected to Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh. 18 August 2017.
11. Web site: Jayalalithaa nominates four for RS polls. The Hindu. 16 August 2017.
12. Web site: Bye-elections to the Council of States from various States. https://web.archive.org/web/20140705055354/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/PN33_12062014.pdf. dead. 5 July 2014. Election Commission of India, New Delhi.. 16 August 2017.
13. Web site: BJD's Singh and Singhdeo elected to Rajya Sabha unopposed. Business Standard. 16 August 2017.
14. Web site: Bye-elections to the Council of States from Haryana.. https://web.archive.org/web/20150426121020/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/PN59_14112014.pdf. dead. 26 April 2015. Election Commission of India, New Delhi. 16 August 2017.