2026 Rajya Sabha elections

2026 Rajya Sabha elections
16 March, 18 June and November 2026
78 of the 233 elected seats in the Rajya Sabha; 123 total seats needed for a majority
Incumbent Majority; National Democratic Alliance;	; ;

The 2026 Rajya Sabha elections will be held as part of a routine six-year cycle of the upper house of the Parliament of India from 16 March to November 2026 to elect 72 of its 245 members, of which the states through their legislators elect 233, and the remaining 12 are appointed by the President.^[1]^[2]

Electoral system

MPs are elected through indirect election by the members of the State legislative assemblies using the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote. Each voter (MLA) ranks candidates in the order of preference (marking 1, 2, 3 and so on) under an open ballot system. Candidates have to reach a specific quota of votes in order to win a seat.^[3]

${\text{Quota}}=\left({\frac {\text{Total valid votes}}{{\text{Vacancies}}+1}}\right)+1$

For a single-seat election, each ballot is valued at one. When multiple seats are filled, the ballot value is set to one hundred.^[4]

A candidate is elected unopposed when the number of candidates matches the number of available seats after nominations and withdrawals period.^[5]

Schedule

Poll event	March election^[2]	June election^[6]
Date of Notification	26 February 2026	1 June 2026
Last date for filing nomination	5 March 2026	8 June 2026
Scrutiny of nomination	6 March 2026	9 June 2026
Last date for withdrawal of nomination	9 March 2026	11 June 2026
Date of Poll (if necessary) & Declaration of Result	16 March 2026	18 June 2026

Results

			Seats Before	Seats After
NDA		Bharatiya Janata Party	30	27
		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	2	1
		Janata Dal (United)	2	2
		Janata Dal (Secular)	1	0
		Nationalist Congress Party	1	2
		National People's Party	1	1
		Rashtriya Lok Morcha	1	1
		Republican Party of India (Athawale)	1	1
		Telugu Desam Party	1	3
		Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar)	1	0
		Janasena Party	0	1
		Pattali Makkal Katchi	0	1
		Shiv Sena	0	1
		Independent (Dilip Ray and Parimal Nathwani)	0	2
	Total		41	43
INDIA		Indian National Congress	8	11
		All India Trinamool Congress	7	4
		Nationalist Congress Party - Sharadchandra Pawar	2	1
		Rashtriya Janata Dal	2	0
		Assam Jatiya Parishad	1	0
		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1	0
		Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	1	1
		Samajwadi Party	1
		Shiv Sena (UBT)	1	0
	Total		24	17
Others		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	4	2
		Biju Janata Dal	3	1
		Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party	3	0
		Bahujan Samaj Party	1
		Mizo National Front	1	0
		Bharat Rashtra Samiti	1	0
		Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam	0	1
		United People's Party Liberal	0	1
		Zoram People's Movement	0	1
	Total		13	6

March Election

Elections were held in Bihar, Haryana & Odisha to elect those states' Rajya Sabha MPs on 16 March 2026. For the rest of the states, MPs were elected unopposed as the number of candidates matched the number of available seats after the nomination and withdrawal period.^[7]

Assam

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP
1	Bhubaneshwar Kalita	BJP	9-Apr-2026	Jogen Mohan	BJP
2	Rameswar Teli	BJP		Terash Gowalla	BJP
3	Ajit Kumar Bhuyan	AJP		Pramod Boro	UPPL

Bihar

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP
1	Harivansh Narayan Singh	JD(U)	9-Apr-2026	Nitish Kumar	JD(U)
2	Ram Nath Thakur	JD(U)		Ram Nath Thakur	JD(U)
3	Prem Chand Gupta	RJD		Nitin Nabin	BJP
4	Amarendra Dhari Singh	RJD		Shivesh Kumar	BJP
5	Upendra Kushwaha	RLM		Upendra Kushwaha	RLM

Chhattisgarh

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	K. T. S. Tulsi		INC	9-Apr-2026	Laxmi Verma		BJP
2	Phulo Devi Netam		INC	9-Apr-2026	Phulo Devi Netam		INC

Haryana

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Kiran Chaudhary		BJP	9-Apr-2026	Sanjay Bhatia		BJP
2	Ram Chander Jangra		BJP	9-Apr-2026	Karamvir Singh Boudh		INC

Himachal Pradesh

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Indu Goswami		BJP	9-Apr-2026	Anurag Sharma		INC

Maharashtra

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP
1	Dhairyashil Patil	BJP	2-Apr-2026	Vinod Tawde	BJP
2	Bhagwat Karad	BJP		Ramrao Wadkute
3	Rajani Patil	INC		Maya Ivnate
4	Priyanka Chaturvedi	SS(UBT)		Jyoti Waghmare	SHS
5	Ramdas Athawale	RPI(A)		Ramdas Athawale	RPI(A)
6	Fouzia Khan	NCP-SP		Parth Pawar	NCP
7	Sharad Pawar	NCP-SP		Sharad Pawar	NCP-SP

Odisha

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP
1	Mamata Mohanta	BJP	2-Apr-2026	Manmohan Samal	BJP
2	Sujeet Kumar	BJP		Sujeet Kumar	BJP
3	Munna Khan	BJD		Santrupt Misra	BJD
4	Niranjan Bishi	BJD		Dilip Ray	IND

Tamil Nadu

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP
1	Tiruchi Siva	DMK	2-Apr-2026	Tiruchi Siva	DMK
2	N. R. Elango			J. Constantine Ravindran	DMK
3	P. Selvarasu			M. Christopher Tilak	INC
4	Kanimozhi N. V. N. Somu			L. K. Sudhish	DMDK
5	M. Thambidurai	AIADMK		M. Thambidurai	AIADMK
6	G. K. Vasan	TMC(M)		Anbumani Ramadoss	PMK

Telangana

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Abhishek Manu Singhvi		INC	9-Apr-2026	Abhishek Manu Singhvi		INC
2	K. R. Suresh Reddy		BRS	9-Apr-2026	Vem Narender Reddy		INC

West Bengal

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP
1	Subrata Bakshi	AITC	2-Apr-2026	Babul Supriyo	AITC
2	Ritabrata Banerjee			Koel Mallick
3	Mausam Noor^[g]			Menaka Guruswamy
4	Saket Gokhale			Rajeev Kumar
5	Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya	CPI(M)		Rahul Sinha	BJP

June Election

Andhra Pradesh

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP
1	Sana Satish	TDP	21-Jun-2026	Sana Satish	TDP
2	Alla Ayodhya Rami Reddy	YSRCP		Bhashyam Rama Krishna
3	Pilli Subhash Chandra Bose			Chintakayala Vijay
4	Parimal Nathwani			Lingamaneni Ramesh	JSP

Arunachal Pradesh

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Nabam Rebia		BJP	23-Jun-2026	Tai Tagak		BJP

Gujarat

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP
1	Rambhai Mokariya	BJP	21-Jun-2026	Rajubhai Shukla	BJP
2	Ramilaben Bara			Mukeshbhai Rathwa
3	Narhari Amin			Mansingh Parmar
4	Shaktisinh Gohil	INC		Jitendra Kanzariya

Jharkhand

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Vacant^[h]				Baidyanath Ram		JMM
2	Deepak Prakash		BJP	21-Jun-2026	Parimal Nathwani^[9]		IND

Karnataka

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP
1	Iranna B. Kadadi	BJP	25-Jun-2026	M. Nagaraja	BJP
2	K. Narayan	BJP		Pawan Khera	INC
3	Mallikarjun Kharge	INC		Mallikarjun Kharge
4	H. D. Deve Gowda	JD(S)		Mansoor Ali Khan

Madhya Pradesh

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP
1	George Kurian	BJP	21-Jun-2026	Tarun Chugh	BJP
2	Sumer Singh Solanki	BJP		Rajneesh Agrawal
3	Digvijaya Singh	INC		Mahesh Kewat

Manipur

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Leishemba Sanajaoba		BJP	21-Jun-2026	Adhikarimayum Sharda Devi		BJP

Meghalaya

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Wanweiroy Kharlukhi		NPP	21-Jun-2026	James Sangma		NPP

Mizoram

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	K. Vanlalvena		MNF	19-Jul-2026	K. Laltluangkima		ZPM

Rajasthan

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP
1	Rajendra Gehlot	BJP	21-Jun-2026	Satish Poonia	BJP
2	Ravneet Singh Bittu	BJP		Alka Gurjar	BJP
3	Neeraj Dangi	INC		Neeraj Dangi	INC

November Election

Uttarakhand

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Naresh Bansal		BJP	25-Nov-2026			BJP

Uttar Pradesh

#	Previous MP		Term end
1	Hardeep Singh Puri	BJP	25-Nov-2026	BJP
2	Dinesh Sharma
3	Seema Dwivedi
4	Brij Lal
5	Arun Singh
6	Neeraj Shekhar
7	Geeta Shakya
8	B. L. Verma
9	Ram Gopal Yadav	SP		SP
10	Ramji Gautam	BSP		SP

Nominated

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Nominated MP	Party
1	Ranjan Gogoi		NOM	16-Mar-2026	Harivansh Narayan Singh		NOM

By-elections

Maharashtra

#	Previous MP	Party		Vacancy date	Elected MP	Party		Term start	Term End	Reason for Vacancy
1	Sunetra Pawar		NCP	6-May-2026	Rajendra Jain		NCP	18-Jun-2026	4-Jul-2028	Elected to 15th Maharashtra Assembly

Odisha

#	Previous MP	Party		Vacancy date	Elected MP	Party		Term start	Term end	Reason for Vacancy
1	Debashish Samantaray		BJD	25-May-2026	Debashish Samantaray		BJP	18-Jun-2026	3-Apr-2030	Resignation

Tamil Nadu

#	Previous MP	Party		Vacancy date	Elected MP	Party		Term start	Term end	Reason for Vacancy
1	C. V. Shanmugam		AIADMK	7-May-2026	Praveen Chakravarty		INC	18-Jun-2026	29-Jun-2028	Elected to 17th Tamil Nadu Assembly

West Bengal

#	Previous MP		Vacancy date	Elected MP		Term start	Term end	Reason for Vacancy
1	Sukhendu Sekhar Roy	AITC	8-Jun-2026	Sukhendu Sekhar Roy	BJP	17-Jul-2026	18-Aug-2029	Resignation
2	Sushmita Dev		10-Jun-2026	Sushmita Dev		17-Jul-2026	2-Apr-2030
3	Prakash Chik Baraik		11-Jun-2026	Prakash Chik Baraik		17-Jul-2026	18-Aug-2029
4	Koel Mallick		16-Jul-2026				3-Apr-2032

Notes

↑ including 7 casual vacancies
↑ excluding 12 nominated seats.
↑ out of 245 (including 12 nominated seats.)
↑ excluding 5 nominated members.
↑ excluding 12 nominated members.
↑ including the support of 12 nominated members
↑ Defected from TMC to INC in January 2026.^[8]
↑ Death of Shibu Soren

References

↑ "Statewise Retirement". rajyasabha.nic.in.
1 2 "Elections To 37 Rajya Sabha Seats Falling Vacant Across 10 States On March 16: EC". ETV Bharat News. 2026-02-18. Retrieved 2026-02-22.
↑ "Membership of Rajya Sabha" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2025-11-21.
↑ Dutta, Prabhash K. (2020-06-19). "Rajya Sabha election: How MPs are elected to the upper house". India Today. Retrieved 2025-11-22.
↑ "Handbook for Returning Officers" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-02.
↑ https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1079531448269548&set=pcb.1079531534936206
↑ "Rajya Sabha polls: Tight contests loom in Bihar, Odisha, Haryana after 26 elected unopposed". Moneycontrol. 2026-03-16. Retrieved 2026-03-16.
↑ "Ahead of Bengal polls, TMC Rajya Sabha MP Mausam Noor quits party, returns to Congress". The New Indian Express. 2026-01-04. Retrieved 2026-02-28.
↑ "Parimal Nathwani, BJP-backed candidate, wins Jharkhand Rajya Sabha polls in big jolt to Congress". India TV. Retrieved 18 June 2026.

[1] uding 7 casual vacancies

[2] xcluding 12 nominated seats.

[3] ut of 245 (including 12 nominated seats.)

[4] xcluding 5 nominated members.

[5] xcluding 12 nominated members.

[6] uding the support of 12 nominated members

[15] Defected from TMC to INC in January 2026.^[8]

[16] Death of Shibu Soren

[7] "Statewise Retirement". rajyasabha.nic.in.

[:0-8] 1 2 "Elections To 37 Rajya Sabha Seats Falling Vacant Across 10 States On March 16: EC". ETV Bharat News. 2026-02-18. Retrieved 2026-02-22.

[9] "Membership of Rajya Sabha" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2025-11-21.

[10] Dutta, Prabhash K. (2020-06-19). "Rajya Sabha election: How MPs are elected to the upper house". India Today. Retrieved 2025-11-22.

[11] "Handbook for Returning Officers" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-02.

[12] ttps://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1079531448269548&set=pcb.1079531534936206

[13] "Rajya Sabha polls: Tight contests loom in Bihar, Odisha, Haryana after 26 elected unopposed". Moneycontrol. 2026-03-16. Retrieved 2026-03-16.

[14] "Ahead of Bengal polls, TMC Rajya Sabha MP Mausam Noor quits party, returns to Congress". The New Indian Express. 2026-01-04. Retrieved 2026-02-28.

[17] "Parimal Nathwani, BJP-backed candidate, wins Jharkhand Rajya Sabha polls in big jolt to Congress". India TV. Retrieved 18 June 2026.

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