2018 Indian Rajya Sabha elections

Rajya Sabha elections were held in 2018 to elect the 65 retiring members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber. There were, as routine, three such elections held among relevant State and Union Territory legislators by single transferable vote (STV) and Open Ballot: on 16 January to elect 3 members from Delhi and 1 member from Sikkim; on 23 March to elect 58 members from 16 States; and lastly on 21 June to elect 3 members from Kerala. Being even-numbered, 2018 was a year in which about 30% of the State Legislature-elected 233-seat component of the body is elected. The other 12 seats of the body are appointed by the President.

2018 Rajya Sabha elections

16 January, 23 March and 21 June 2018
69 seats to the Rajya Sabha
Leader Arun Jaitley Ghulam Nabi Azad Party BJP INC Alliance NDA UPA Leader since 2 June 2014 8 June 2014 Leader's seat Uttar Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir Seats before 58 58 Seats after 73 50 Seat change 15 8   Leader Derek O'Brien Ram Gopal Yadav Party AITC SP Leader since 19 August 2011 26 November 2014 Leader's seat West Bengal Uttar Pradesh Seats before 13 18 Seats after 13 13 Seat change  – 5

Not as part of a six-yearly cycle, a by-election was held to elect 1 member from Kerala in March, which proved to be a re-election but as an independent member, of M. P. Veerendra Kumar, the only by-election of the year.[1]

Elections

The elections were held to elect 3 members from National Capital Territory of Delhi and 1 member from Sikkim. 3 members from the National Capital Territory of Delhi retired on 27 January 2018 and 1 member from Sikkim retired on 23 February 2018. Elections for 58 seats and a by-election for 1 seat were held on 23 March 2018. The election was held for 3 seats of Kerala on 21 June 2018.

State	Members retiring	Date of retirement
Delhi	3	27 January 2018
Sikkim	1	23 February 2018
Andhra Pradesh	3	2 April 2018
Bihar	6	2 April 2018
Chhattisgarh	1	2 April 2018
Gujarat	4	2 April 2018
Haryana	1	2 April 2018
Himachal Pradesh	1	2 April 2018
Karnataka	4	2 April 2018
Madhya Pradesh	5	2 April 2018
Maharashtra	6	2 April 2018
Telangana	3	2 April 2018
Uttar Pradesh	10	2 April 2018
Uttarakhand	1	2 April 2018
West Bengal	5	2 April 2018
Odisha	3	3 April 2018
Rajasthan	3	3 April 2018
Jharkhand	2	3 May 2018
Kerala	3	1 July 2018
Nominated	4	14 July 2018

Members Elected

National Capital Territory of Delhi

Delhi had an election for 3 Rajya Sabha seats on 16 January 2018 to replace members retiring on 27 January 2018.

Seat No	Former MP	Former Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Karan Singh		INC	Sanjay Singh		AAP
2	Parvez Hashmi			Sushil Gupta
3	Janardan Dwivedi			N. D. Gupta

Sikkim

Sikkim had an election for 1 Rajya Sabha seat on 16 January 2018 to replace member retiring on 23 February 2018.

Seat No	Former MP	Former Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Hishey Lachungpa		SDF	Hishey Lachungpa		SDF

Andhra Pradesh

From Andhra Pradesh State, 3 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.[2]

Seat No	Former MP	Former Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Tulla Devender Goud		TDP	C. M. Ramesh		TDP	[2]
2	Renuka Chowdhury		INC	Kanakamedala Ravindra Kumar
3	Chiranjeevi			Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy		YSRCP

Bihar

From Bihar State, 6 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.[3]

Seat No	Former MP	Former Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Ravi Shankar Prasad		BJP	Ravi Shankar Prasad		BJP	[3]
2	Dharmendra Pradhan			Akhilesh Prasad Singh		INC
3	Mahendra Prasad		JD(U)	Mahendra Prasad		JD(U)
4	Bashistha Narain Singh			Bashistha Narain Singh
5	Anil Kumar Sahani			Ashfaque Karim		RJD
6	Vacant (Ali Anwar)			Manoj Jha

Chhattisgarh

From Chhattisgarh State, 1 member is elected for the Rajya Sabha seat on 23 March 2018, to replace member retiring on 2 April 2018.[4]

Seat No	Former MP	Former Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Bhushan Lal Jangde		BJP	Saroj Pandey		BJP	[5][4]

Gujarat

From Gujarat State, 4 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.[6]

Seat No	Former MP	Former Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Parshottam Rupala		BJP	Parshottam Rupala		BJP	[6]
2	Mansukh L. Mandaviya			Mansukh L. Mandaviya
3	Arun Jaitley			Naranbhai Rathwa		INC
4	Shankarbhai Vegad			Amee Yajnik

Haryana

From Haryana State, 1 member is elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace member retiring on 2 April 2018.[7]

Seat No	Former MP	Former Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Shadi Lal Batra		INC	D.P. Vats		BJP	[7]

Himachal Pradesh

From Himachal Pradesh State, 1 member is elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace member retiring on 2 April 2018.[8]

Seat No	Former MP	Former Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Jagat Prakash Nadda		BJP	Jagat Prakash Nadda		BJP	[8][7]

Jharkhand

From Jharkhand State, 2 members are elected for the Rajya Sabha seats on 23 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 3 May 2018.[9]

Seat No	Former MP	Former Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Sanjiv Kumar		JMM	Sameer Oraon		BJP	[9][5]
2	Pradeep Kumar Balmuchu		INC	Dhiraj Prasad Sahu		INC

Karnataka

From Karnataka State, 4 members are elected for the Rajya Sabha seats on 23 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.[10]

Seat No	Former MP	Former Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	R Ramakrishna		BJP	Syed Naseer Hussain		INC	[5][10]
2	Basavaraj Patil Sedam			L. Hanumanthaiah
3	K. Rahman Khan		INC	G C Chandrasekhar
4	Vacant (Rajeev Chandrasekhar)		Independent	Rajeev Chandrasekhar		BJP

Madhya Pradesh

From Madhya Pradesh State, 5 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.[11]

Seat No	Former MP	Former Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Satyavrat Chaturvedi		INC	Rajmani Patel		INC	[11]
2	Meghraj Jain		BJP	Dharmendra Pradhan		BJP
3	Prakash Javadekar			Kailash Soni
4	La Ganesan			Ajay Pratap Singh
5	Thawar Chand Gehlot			Thawar Chand Gehlot

Maharashtra

From Maharashtra State, 6 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.[12]

Seat No	Former MP	Former Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Ajay Sancheti		BJP	Prakash Javadekar		BJP	[12]
2	D. P. Tripathi		NCP	Narayan Rane
3	Rajeev Shukla		INC	V. Muraleedharan
4	Rajni Patil			Kumar Ketkar		INC
5	Vandana Chavan		NCP	Vandana Chavan		NCP
6	Anil Desai		SS	Anil Desai		SS

Odisha

From Odisha State, 3 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 3 April 2018.[13]

Seat No	Former MP	Former Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Ananga Udaya Singh Deo		BJD	Prashanta Nanda		BJD	[13]
2	Dilip Tirkey			Achyuta Samanta
3	A V Swamy		Independent	Soumya Ranjan Patnaik

Rajasthan

From Rajasthan State, 3 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 3 April 2018.[14]

Seat No	Former MP	Former Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Abhishek Singhvi		INC	Kirodi Lal Meena		BJP	[14]
2	Narendra Budania			Madan Lal Saini
3	Bhupender Yadav		BJP	Bhupender Yadav

Telangana

From Telangana State, 3 members are elected for the Rajya Sabha seats on 23 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.[15]

Seat No	Former MP	Former Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	C. M. Ramesh		TDP	Joginapally Santosh Kumar		TRS	[5][15]
2	Rapolu Ananda Bhaskar		INC	Badulgula Lingaiah Yadav
3	Vacant (P. Govardhan Reddy)			Banda Prakash

Uttarakhand

From Uttarakhand State, 1 member is elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace member retiring on 2 April 2018.[16]

Seat No	Former MP	Former Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Mahendra Singh Mahra		INC	Anil Baluni		BJP	[16]

Uttar Pradesh

From Uttar Pradesh State, 10 members are elected for the Rajya Sabha seats on 23 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.[17]

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Jaya Bachchan		SP	Jaya Bachchan		SP	[5][17]
2	Naresh Chandra Agrawal			Arun Jaitley		BJP
3	Alok Tiwari			Anil Jain
4	Munvvar Saleem			Ashok Bajpai
5	Darshan Singh Yadav			Harnath Singh Yadav
6	Kiranmay Nanda			Anil Agrawal
7	Munquad Ali		BSP	Sakal Deep Rajbhar
8	Vacant (Mayawati)			Kanta Kardam
9	Pramod Tiwari		INC	G. V. L. Narasimha Rao
10	Vinay Katiyar		BJP	Vijaypal Singh Tomar

West Bengal

From West Bengal State, 5 members are elected for the Rajya Sabha seats on 23 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Tapan Kumar Sen		CPI(M)	Abhishek Singhvi		INC	[5]
2	Nadimul Haque		AITC	Nadimul Haque		AITC
3	Vivek Gupta			Abir Biswas
4	Kunal Kumar Ghosh			Santunu Sen
5	Vacant (Mukul Roy)			Subhasish Chakraborty

Kerala

From Kerala State, 3 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 14 June 2018, to replace members retiring on 1 July 2018.

Seat No	Former MP	Former Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	C.P. Narayanan		CPI(M)	Elamaram Kareem		CPI(M)	[18]
2	P. J. Kurien		INC	Binoy Viswam		CPI
3	Joy Abraham		KC(M)	Jose K. Mani		KC(M)

Nominated

Seat No	Former MP	Former Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Anu Aga		Nominated	Raghunath Mohapatra		BJP	[19]
2	K. Parasaran		Nominated	Sonal Mansingh		BJP
3	Rekha		Nominated	Ram Shakal		BJP
4	Sachin Tendulkar		Nominated	Rakesh Sinha		BJP

By-elections

In addition to scheduled elections, unforeseen vacancies, caused by members' resignation, death or disqualification, may also be filled via By-elections.

• On 2 September 2017, Manohar Parrikar resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh, due to his election as the member of Goa Legislative Assembly on 23 August by-poll.[20]

Uttar Pradesh

S.No	Former MP	Party		Date of Vacancy	Elected MP	Party		Date of appointment	Date of retirement
1	Manohar Parrikar		BJP	2 September 2017	Hardeep Singh Puri		BJP	9 January 2018	25 November 2020

Kerala

• On 20 December 2017, M. P. Veerendra Kumar resigned from Rajya Sabha due to disqualification of Sharad Yadav.

S.No	Former MP	Party		Date of Vacancy	Elected MP	Party		Date of appointment	Date of retirement
1	M. P. Veerendra Kumar		Janata Dal (United)	20 December 2017	M. P. Veerendra Kumar		IND	24 March 2018	2 April 2022

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