Elections for the Upper House of Indian Parliament
2020 Rajya Sabha elections Rajya Sabha [ a]
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
2020 Rajya Sabha elections were the set of indirect elections by the members of State legislatures of India, to elect new members to fill vacancies in the Rajya Sabha – the upper house of the Parliament of India . The elections are held annually and throughout the year on an ad hoc basis. The elections in 2020 are for a total of 73 seats of which 55 of them were to be elected by March 26.[ 1] COVID-19 pandemic . The Election Commission of India later announced all the elections for the remaining 24 Rajya Sabha seats were to be held on 19 June 2020.[ 2]
On 12 June 2020, Election commission of India declared unopposed victory over 4 seats of Karnataka and 1 seat of Arunachal Pradesh. Leaving behind 19 seats to go for elections on 19 June 2020.[ 3] [ 4]
On 2 November 2020, Election commission of India declared unopposed victory over 10 seats of Uttar Pradesh and 1 seat of Uttarakhand.[ 5] [ 6]
Results
April Election
June Election
November Election
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.
On 20 January 2020 Birender Singh Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Haryana [ 25] On 8 October 2020, Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan died.[ 26] On 27 March 2020 Beni Prasad Verma died.
On 1 August 2020 Amar Singh died. On 28 May 2020 Veerendra Kumar died. On 17 September 2020 Ashok Gasti died.
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Former MP
Party
Date of Vacancy
Elected MP
Party
Term start
Term end
1
Ashok Gasti
BJP
17-Sep-2020
K. Narayan
BJP
24-Nov-2020
25-Jun-2026
Nominations
Note:
Listed According Date Of Retirement
Notes
References
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