2019 Rajya Sabha elections
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2019 Rajya Sabha elections were held throughout 2019, to fill the vacancies in the Rajya Sabha, the Indian Parliament's upper chamber. The elections were held to elect 2 members from Assam as well as 6 members from Tamil Nadu. By-elections were held for 14 seats among various states.
The elections resulted in the ruling BJP maintaining and increasing their majority with a net gain of 6 seats.
Results
[edit]Elections
[edit]Seat No | Previous MP | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Reference | ||
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1 | Manmohan Singh | Indian National Congress | Kamakhya Prasad Tasa | Bharatiya Janata Party | [1] | ||
2 | Santiuse Kujur | Indian National Congress | Birendra Prasad Baishya | Asom Gana Parishad |
By-elections
[edit]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 23 May 2019 Ravi Shankar Prasad Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Bihar due to his election as the member of Lok Sabha From Patna Sahib
- On 8 September 2019 Ram Jethmalani Had Died
S.No | Former MP | Party | Date of Vacancy | Elected MP | Party | Date of appointment | Date of retirement | ||
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1 | Ravi Shankar Prasad | Bharatiya Janata Party | 23 May 2019 | Ram Vilas Paswan | Lok Janshakti Party | 28 June 2019 | 2 April 2024 | ||
2 | Ram Jethmalani | Rashtriya Janata Dal | 8 September 2019 | Satish Chandra Dubey | Bharatiya Janata Party | 9 October 2019 | 7 July 2022 |
- On 23 May 2019 Amit Shah Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat due to his election as the member of Lok Sabha From Gandhinagar
- On 24 May 2019 Smriti Irani Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat due to her election as the member of Lok Sabha From Amethi
S.No | Former MP | Party | Date of Vacancy | Elected MP | Party | Date of appointment | Date of retirement | ||
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1 | Amit Shah | Bharatiya Janata Party | 23 May 2019 | S. Jaishankar | Bharatiya Janata Party | 5 July 2019 | 18 August 2023 | ||
2 | Smriti Irani | Bharatiya Janata Party | 24 May 2019 | Jugalji Thakore | Bharatiya Janata Party | 5 July 2019 | 18 August 2023 |
- On 24 May 2019 Achyuta Samanta Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Odisha due to his election as the member of Lok Sabha From Kandhamal
- On 6 June 2019 Soumya Ranjan Patnaik Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Odisha due to his election as the member of Odisha Legislative Assembly From Khandapada
- On 6 June 2019 Pratap Keshari Deb Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Odisha due to his election as the member of Odisha Legislative Assembly From Aul
S.No | Former MP | Party | Date of Vacancy | Elected MP | Party | Date of appointment | Date of retirement | ||
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1 | Achyuta Samanta | Biju Janata Dal | 24 May 2019 | Ashwini Vaishnaw | Bharatiya Janata Party | 28 June 2019 | 3 April 2024 | ||
2 | Soumya Ranjan Patnaik | Biju Janata Dal | 6 June 2019 | Amar Patnaik | Biju Janata Dal | 28 June 2019 | 3 April 2024 | ||
3 | Pratap Keshari Deb | Biju Janata Dal | 9 June 2019 | Sasmit Patra | Biju Janata Dal | 28 June 2019 | 1 July 2022 |
- 24 June 2019 Madan Lal Saini Had Died
S.No | Former MP | Party | Date of Vacancy | Elected MP | Party | Date of appointment | Date of retirement | ||
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1 | Madan Lal Saini | Bharatiya Janata Party | 24 June 2019 | Manmohan Singh | Indian National Congress | 26 August 2019 | 3 April 2024 |
- On 15 July 2019 Neeraj Sekhar Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh And Membership Of Samajwadi Party And Joined Bharatiya Janata Party
- On 2 August 2019 Surendra Singh Nagar Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh And Membership Of Samajwadi Party And Joined Bharatiya Janata Party
- On 5 August 2019 Sanjay Seth Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh And Membership Of Samajwadi Party And Joined Bharatiya Janata Party
- On 24 August 2019 Arun Jaitley Had Died
- On 24 October 2019 Tazeen Fatma Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh due to her election as the member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly On 21 October by-poll From Rampur
S.No | Former MP | Party | Date of Vacancy | Elected MP | Party | Date of appointment | Date of retirement | ||
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1 | Neeraj Shekhar | Samajwadi Party | 15 July 2019 | Neeraj Shekhar | Bharatiya Janata Party | 26 August 2019 | 25 November 2020 | ||
2 | Surendra Singh Nagar | Samajwadi Party | 2 August 2019 | Surendra Singh Nagar | Bharatiya Janata Party | 16 September 2019 | 4 July 2022 | ||
3 | Sanjay Seth | Samajwadi Party | 5 August 2019 | Sanjay Seth | Bharatiya Janata Party | 16 September 2019 | 4 July 2022 | ||
4 | Arun Jaitley | Bharatiya Janata Party | 24 August 2019 | Sudhanshu Trivedi | Bharatiya Janata Party | 9 October 2019 | 2 April 2024 | ||
5 | Tazeen Fatma | Samajwadi Party | 24 October 2019 | Arun Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | 5 December 2019 | 25 November 2020 |
- On 16 October 2019 K. C. Ramamurthy Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka And Membership of Indian National Congress And Joined Bharatiya Janata Party
S.No | Former MP | Party | Date of Vacancy | Elected MP | Party | Date of appointment | Date of retirement | ||
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1 | K. C. Ramamurthy | Indian National Congress | 16 October 2019 | K. C. Ramamurthy | Bharatiya Janata Party | 5 December 2019 | 30 June 2022 |
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Nominees of BJP, AGP elected unopposed to two RS seats in Assam". Business Standard. 31 May 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
- ^ "Six candidates elected unopposed as Rajya Sabha MPs". The Hindu. 11 July 2019. Retrieved 8 February 2020.