2022 Rajya Sabha elections explained

Country:	India
Previous Election:	2021
Next Election:	2023
Election Date:	31 March – 22 September 2022
Seats For Election:	74 seats in the Rajya Sabha
Nopercentage:	yes
Party1:	Bharatiya Janata Party
Leader1:	Piyush Goyal
Seats1:	27
Last Election1:	27
Party2:	Indian National Congress
Leader2:	Mallikarjun Kharge
Seats2:	10
Last Election2:	14
Party3:	Aam Aadmi Party
Leader3:	Sanjay Singh
Seats3:	7
Last Election3:	0
Party4:	Biju Janata Dal
Leader4:	Sasmit Patra
Seats4:	4
Last Election4:	4
Party5:	YSR Congress Party
Leader5:	V. Vijayasai Reddy
Seats5:	4
Last Election5:	1
Party6:	Bharat Rashtra Samithi
Leader6:	K. Keshava Rao
Seats6:	3
Last Election6:	3
Party7:	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Leader7:	Tiruchi Siva
Seats7:	3
Last Election7:	3
Party8:	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Leader8:	M. Thambidurai
Seats8:	2
Last Election8:	3
Party9:	Janata Dal (United)
Leader9:	Ram Nath Thakur
Seats9:	2
Last Election9:	3
Party10:	Rashtriya Janata Dal
Leader10:	Prem Chand Gupta
Seats10:	2
Last Election10:	1
Party11:	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Leader11:	Elamaram Kareem
Seats11:	1
Last Election11:	2
Party12:	Communist Party of India
Leader12:	Binoy Viswam
Seats12:	1
Last Election12:	0
Party13:	Nationalist Congress Party
Leader13:	Sharad Pawar
Seats13:	1
Last Election13:	1
Party14:	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
Leader14:	Shibu Soren
Seats14:	1
Last Election14:	0
Party15:	Rashtriya Lok Dal
Leader15:	-
Seats15:	1
Last Election15:	0
Party16:	Samajwadi Party
Leader16:	Ram Gopal Yadav
Seats16:	1
Last Election16:	3
Party17:	Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)
Leader17:	Sanjay Raut
Seats17:	1
Last Election17:	1
Party18:	United People's Party Liberal
Leader18:	-
Seats18:	1
Last Election18:	0
Party19:	Independent
Leader19:	-
Seats19:	2
Last Election19:	1

Rajya Sabha elections were held throughout 2022, to elect the retiring members of the Rajya Sabha, the Indian Parliament's upper house.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Elections to the 4 vacant seats from Jammu and Kashmir were not held in February as the union territory is under President's rule and the assembly has been dissolved.^[4]

List of elections by states

• Listed according to the dates

State	Members retiring	Date of retirement
Assam	2	2 April 2022
Himachal Pradesh	1
Kerala	3
Nagaland	1
Tripura	1
Punjab	5	9 April 2022
Andhra Pradesh	4	21 June 2022
Telangana	2
Chhattisgarh	2	29 June 2022
Madhya Pradesh	3
Tamil Nadu	6
Karnataka	4	30 June 2022
Odisha	3	1 July 2022
Maharashtra	6	4 July 2022
Punjab	2	4 July 2022
Rajasthan	4
Uttar Pradesh	11
Uttarakhand	1
Bihar	5	7 July 2022
Jharkhand	2
Haryana	2	1 August 2022
Total	70

State	Vacant seats	Date of vacancy
Telangana	1	4 December 2021
Bihar	1	26 December 2021
Odisha	1	27 April 2022
Tripura	1	26 June 2022

Results

Members retiring and elected

Note:

• Listed according to date of retirement

Assam

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	Ripun Bora		02-Apr-2022	Rwngwra Narzary		^[5]
2	Ranee Narah		02-Apr-2022	Pabitra Margherita

Kerala

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	A. K. Antony		02-Apr-2022	Jebi Mather		^[7]
2	K. Somaprasad		02-Apr-2022	A. A. Rahim
3	M. V. Shreyams Kumar		02-Apr-2022	P. Santhosh Kumar

Punjab

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa		9 April 2022	Harbhajan Singh		^[10]
2	Naresh Gujral	Raghav Chadha
3	Pratap Singh Bajwa			Sandeep Pathak
4	Shamsher Singh Dullo	Ashok Mittal
5	Shwait Malik			Sanjeev Arora
6	Balwinder Singh Bhunder		4 July 2022	Balbir Singh Seechewal
7	Ambika Soni			Vikramjit Singh Sahney

Andhra Pradesh

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	V. Vijayasai Reddy		21 June 2022	V. Vijayasai Reddy		^[11]
2	Suresh Prabhu		21 June 2022	R. Krishnaiah
3	Sujana Chowdary	21 June 2022	S. Niranjan Reddy
4	T. G. Venkatesh	21 June 2022	Beeda Masthan Rao

Telangana

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	V. Lakshmikantha Rao		21 June 2022	B. Parthasaradhi Reddy		^[12]
2	D. Srinivas	21 June 2022	D. Damodar Rao

Chhattisgarh

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	Ramvichar Netam		29-Jun-2022	Rajeev Shukla		^[13]
2	Chhaya Verma		29-Jun-2022	Ranjeet Ranjan

Madhya Pradesh

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	M. J. Akbar		29-Jun-2022	Kavita Patidar		^[14]
2	Sampatiya Uikey	29-Jun-2022	Sumitra Valmiki
3	Vivek Tankha		29-Jun-2022	Vivek Tankha

Tamil Nadu

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	R. S. Bharathi		29-Jun-2022	R. Girirajan		^[15]
2	T. K. S. Elangovan	29-Jun-2022	S. Kalyanasundaram
3	K. R. N. Rajeshkumar	29-Jun-2022	K. R. N. Rajeshkumar
4	A. Navaneethakrishnan		29-Jun-2022	P. Chidambaram
5	S. R. Balasubramoniyan	29-Jun-2022	C. V. Shanmugam
6	A. Vijayakumar	29-Jun-2022	R. Dharmar

Karnataka

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	Nirmala Sitharaman		30-Jun-2022	Nirmala Sitharaman		^[16]
2	K. C. Ramamurthy	30-Jun-2022	Jaggesh
3	Oscar Fernandes		30-Jun-2022	Lehar Singh Siroya
4	Jairam Ramesh	30-Jun-2022	Jairam Ramesh

Odisha

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	Sasmit Patra		1 July 2022	Sasmit Patra		^[17]
2	Prasanna Acharya	Manas Ranjan Mangaraj
3	N. Bhaskar Rao	Sulata Deo

Maharashtra

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	Piyush Goyal		04-Jul-2022	Piyush Goyal		^[18]
2	Vinay Sahasrabuddhe	04-Jul-2022	Anil Sukhdevrao Bonde
3	Vikas Mahatme	04-Jul-2022	Dhananjay Mahadik
4	Praful Patel		04-Jul-2022	Praful Patel
5	P. Chidambaram		04-Jul-2022	Imran Pratapgarhi
6	Sanjay Raut		04-Jul-2022	Sanjay Raut

Rajasthan

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	Om Prakash Mathur		04-Jul-2022	Randeep Surjewala		^[19]
2	Ram Kumar Verma	04-Jul-2022	Mukul Wasnik
3	Harshvardhan Singh Dungarpur	04-Jul-2022	Pramod Tiwari
4	Alphons Kannanthanam	04-Jul-2022	Ghanshyam Tiwari

Uttar Pradesh

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	Surendra Singh Nagar		04-Jul-2022	Surendra Singh Nagar		^[20]
2	Shiv Pratap Shukla	04-Jul-2022
3	Sanjay Seth	04-Jul-2022	Radha Mohan Das Agarwal
4	Jai Prakash Nishad	04-Jul-2022	Baburam Nishad
5	Syed Zafar Islam	04-Jul-2022	Sangeeta Yadav
6	Rewati Raman Singh		04-Jul-2022	Darshana Singh
7	Sukhram Singh Yadav	04-Jul-2022	Mithlesh Kumar
8	Vishambhar Prasad Nishad	04-Jul-2022	K. Laxman
9	Satish Chandra Mishra		04-Jul-2022	Jayant Chaudhary
10	Ashok Siddharth	04-Jul-2022	Javed Ali Khan
11	Kapil Sibal		04-Jul-2022	Kapil Sibal			IND

Bihar

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	Gopal Narayan Singh		07-Jul-2022	Shambhu Sharan Patel		^[22]
2	Satish Chandra Dubey	07-Jul-2022	Satish Chandra Dubey
3	Ramchandra Prasad Singh		07-Jul-2022	Khiru Mahto
4	Sharad Yadav	07-Jul-2022	Faiyaz Ahmad
5	Misa Bharti		07-Jul-2022	Misa Bharti

Jharkhand

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi		07-Jul-2022	Aditya Sahu		^[23]
2	Mahesh Poddar		07-Jul-2022	Mahua Maji

Haryana

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Ref.
1	Dushyant Kumar Gautam		01-Aug-2022	Krishan Lal Panwar		^[24]
2	Subhash Chandra		IND	01-Aug-2022	Kartikeya Sharma			IND

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.

Bihar

• On 26 December 2021, Mahendra Prasad died

Telangana

• On 4 December 2021, Banda Prakash resigned

Odisha

• On 27 April 2022, Subhash Chandra Singh was elected the Mayor of Cuttack.

Tripura

• On 26 June 2022 Manik Saha was elected to the Tripura Legislative Assembly.

Nominations

Nominated members

No	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Nominated MP	Party		Date of appointment	Ref.
1	Narendra Jadhav		Nominated	24-Apr-2022	Ilaiyaraaja		Nominated	06-Jul-2022	^[29]
2	Mary Kom		Nominated	24-Apr-2022	P. T. Usha		Nominated	06-Jul-2022
3	Roopa Ganguly		Nominated (BJP)	24-Apr-2022	V. Vijayendra Prasad		Nominated	06-Jul-2022
4	Swapan Dasgupta		Nominated (BJP)	24-Apr-2022	Veerendra Heggade		Nominated	06-Jul-2022
5	Suresh Gopi		Nominated (BJP)	24-Apr-2022	Ghulam Ali Khatana		Nominated (BJP)	10-Sep-2022	^[30]

See also

• 2022 elections in India
• List of current members of the Rajya Sabha

Notes and References

1. Web site: Statewise Retirement. 164.100.47.5.
2. News: NDA likely to get majority in Rajya Sabha by 2021. May 27, 2019. The Economic Times.
3. News: BJP's Rajya Sabha tally will marginally drop after March, but real worry will be after 2022 . 31 May 2022 . 2 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220531080115/https://theprint.in/politics/bjps-rajya-sabha-tally-will-marginally-drop-after-march-but-real-worry-will-be-after-2022/372061/ . 31 May 2022.
4. Web site: Jammu and Kashmir set to lose representation in Rajya Sabha.
5. Web site: 2022-04-01 . Team BJP wins both Rajya Sabha seats in Assam as Opposition unity crumbles . 2023-01-20 . Hindustan Times . en.
6. Web site: 2022-03-24 . Dr. Sikandar Kumar becomes Rajya Sabha MP from Himachal - HIMACHAL HEADLINES . 2023-01-20 . en.
7. Web site: A A Rahim, Jebi Mather and P Santhosh Kumar elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha . 2023-01-20 . English.Mathrubhumi.
8. Web site: Phangnon Konyak elected unopposed as Nagaland's first woman RS MP . 2023-01-20 . MorungExpress.
9. Web site: 2022-03-31 . Tripura BJP gets first Rajya Sabha member as state president wins lone seat . 2023-01-20 . The Indian Express . en.
10. Web site: 2022-06-03 . AAP nominees Seechewal, Sahney elected unopposed to RS from Punjab . 2023-01-20 . Hindustan Times . en.
11. News: Jonathan . P. Samuel . 2022-06-03 . Andhra Pradesh: Four YSRCP nominees elected to Rajya Sabha unopposed . en-IN . The Hindu . 2023-01-20 . 0971-751X.
12. Web site: TRS candidates Damodar Rao, B Parthasaradhi Reddy elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha . 2023-01-20 . newsonair.gov.in.
13. Web site: 2022-06-03 . Cong candidates Rajeev Shukla, Ranjeet Ranjan elected unopposed to RS from Chhattisgarh . 2023-01-20 . The Indian Express . en.
14. Web site: Suchanda . Gupta . June 4, 2022 . All three from Madhya Pradesh elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha . 2023-01-20 . The Times of India . en.
15. Web site: Six Rajya Sabha candidates from Tamil Nadu elected unopposed . 2023-01-20 . newsonair.gov.in.
16. Web site: Karnataka Rajya Sabha: 3 Seats For BJP, 1 For Congress, None For Deve Gowda's JDS . 2023-01-20 . NDTV.com.
17. Web site: 2022-06-03 . Three BJD candidates elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha . 2023-01-20 . Pragativadi . en-US.
18. Web site: PTI. Jun 11, 2022 . Maharashtra: BJP wins 3 of 6 Rajya Sabha seats in major setback to ruling Sena-NCP-Congress alliance India News - Times of India . 2023-01-20 . The Times of India . en.
19. Web site: Congress bags 3 Rajya Sabha seats in Rajasthan, BJP manages 1 . 2023-01-20 . India Today . en.
20. News: 2022-06-04 . 11 Rajya Sabha candidates in UP, including 8 from BJP elected unopposed . Business Standard India . 2023-01-20.
21. Web site: Kautilya Singh. Jun 4, 2022 . Bjp's Kalpana Saini Elected To Rajya Sabha Dehradun News - Times of India . 2023-01-20 . The Times of India . en.
22. News: 2016-06-03 . All Rajya Sabha nominees from Bihar elected unopposed . Business Standard India . 2023-01-20.
23. Web site: Sahu, Majhi gets elected to RS unopposed . 2023-01-20 . The Pioneer . en.
24. Web site: Rajya Sabha polls: BJP's Krishan Lal Panwar, Independent candidate Kartikeya Sharma elected from Haryana; Cong's Ajay Makan loses . 2023-01-20 . Tribuneindia News Service . en.
25. Web site: JD(U) Leader Anil Hegde Elected Unopposed To Rajya Sabha . 2023-01-20 . NDTV.com.
26. Web site: TRS nominee elected uncontested to Rajya Sabha . 2023-01-20 . www.newsdrum.in . en.
27. Web site: BJD candidate Niranjan Bishi elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha - Dinalipi . 2023-01-20 . en-US.
28. Web site: 2022-09-22 . Former Tripura chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb elected as Rajya Sabha MP . 2023-01-20 . Hindustan Times . en.
29. Web site: 2022-07-06 . Ilaiyaraaja, P T Usha, Veerendra Heggade and Vijayendra Prasad nominated as RS members . 2023-01-20 . The Indian Express . en.
30. Web site: 2022-09-11 . Gulam Ali, a Gurjar Muslim from J&K, nominated to RS . 2023-01-20 . Kashmir Convener . en-US.