Indian Rajya Sabha elections, 2016

Rajya Sabha elections, 2016

March 14 and June 11, 2016

	First party	Second party

Leader	Ghulam Nabi Azad	Arun Jaitley
Party	INC	BJP
Alliance	UPA	NDA
Leader since	June 8, 2014	June 3, 2009
Leader's seat	Jammu and Kashmir	Gujarat
Seats before	66	48
Seats won	60	55
Seat change	6	7

Rajya Sabha elections were held in India on March 14, and June 11, 2016, to elect 13 and 57 members of the Rajya Sabha respectively.^[1]^[2]

March elections

The election of March 14, 2016 was held to elect 13 members to the Rajya Sabha. The seats in following states were up for election:^[2]

Assam - 2 seats.
Himachal Pradesh - 1 seat.
Kerala - 3 seats.
Nagaland - 1 seat.
Tripura - 1 seat.
Punjab - 5 seats.

List of elected candidates

Sr No	State	Elected MP		Reference
1	Assam	Ranee Narah	Congress	^[3]
1	Assam	Ripun Bora	Congress	^[3]
2	Himachal Pradesh	Anand Sharma	Congress	^[4]
3	Kerala	A. K. Antony	Congress	^[5]
		M. P. Veerendra Kumar	JD(U)	^[5]
		K. Somaprasad	CPI(M)	^[4]
4	Nagaland	K. G. Kenye	NPF	^[5]
5	Tripura	Jharna Das	CPI(M)	^[6]
6	Punjab	Pratap Singh Bajwa	Congress	^[4]
		Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa	SAD	^[5]
		Shamsher Singh Dullo	Congress	^[4]
		Naresh Gujral	SAD
		Shwet Malik	BJP

June elections

The election of June 11, 2016 was held to elect 57 members to the Rajya Sabha. The seats in following states were up for election:^[1]

Andhra Pradesh

Seat No	Previous MP		Elected MP		Reference
1	Nirmala Sitaraman	BJP	Suresh Prabhu	BJP	^[5]
2	Y. S. Chowdary	TDP	Y. S. Chowdary	TDP
3	Jairam Ramesh	Congress	T G Venkatesh	TDP
4	Jesudasu Seelam	Congress	V. Vijaysai Reddy	YSRCP

Bihar

Seat No	Previous MP		Elected MP		Reference
1	Sharad Yadav	JD(U)	Sharad Yadav	JD(U)	^[5]
2	Ramchandra Prasad Singh	JD(U)	Ramchandra Prasad Singh	JD(U)
3	K. C. Tyagi	JD(U)	Ram Jethmalani	RJD
4	Gulam Rasool Balyawi	JD(U)	Misa Bharti	RJD
5	Pavan Kumar Varma	JD(U)	Gopal Narayan Singh	BJP

Chhattisgarh

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Nand Kumar Sai		BJP	Ramvichar Netam		BJP	^[5]
2	Mohsina Kidwai		Congress	Chhaya Verma		Congress	^[5]

Haryana

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Birender Singh		BJP	Birender Singh		BJP	^[5]
2	Suresh Prabhu		BJP	Subhash Chandra		Independent	^[5]

Jharkhand

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	M J Akbar		BJP	Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi		BJP	^[5]
2	Dhiraj Prasad Sahu		Congress	Mahesh Poddar		BJP	^[5]

Karnataka

Seat No	Previous MP		Elected MP		Reference
1	Oscar Fernandes	Congress	Oscar Fernandes	Congress	^[5]
2	Aayanur Manjunath	BJP	Jairam Ramesh	Congress
3	Dr Vijay Mallya	Independent	K. C. Ramamurthy	Congress
4	M. Venkaiah Naidu	BJP	Nirmala Sitharaman	BJP

Madhya Pradesh

Seat No	Previous MP		Elected MP		Reference
1	Anil Madhav Dave	BJP	Anil Madhav Dave	BJP	^[5]
2	Chandan Mitra	BJP	M. J. Akbar	BJP
3	Dr Vijayalaxmi Sadho	Congress	Vivek Tankha	Congress

Maharashtra

Seat No	Previous MP		Elected MP		Reference
1	Piyush Goyal	BJP	Piyush Goyal	BJP	^[5]
2	Ishwarlal Jain	BJP	Vinay Sahasrabuddhe	BJP
3	Avinash Pande	Congress	Vikas Mahatme	BJP
4	Vijay J. Darda	Congress	P. Chidambaram	Congress
5	Praful Patel	NCP	Praful Patel	NCP
6	Sanjay Raut	SHS	Sanjay Raut	SHS

Odisha

Seat No	Previous MP		Elected MP		Reference
1	Baishnab Charan Parida	BJD	N. Bhaskar Rao	BJD	^[5]
2	Pyarimohan Mohapatra	BJD	Prasanna Acharya	BJD
3	Bhupinder Singh	BJD	Bishnu Charan Das	BJD

Punjab

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Ambika Soni		Congress	Ambika Soni		Congress	^[5]
2	Balwinder Singh Bhunder		SAD	Balwinder Singh Bhunder		SAD	^[5]

Rajasthan

Seat No	Previous MP		Elected MP		Reference
1	Ashk Ali Tak	BJP	Om Prakash Mathur	BJP	^[5]
2	Ram Jethmalani	BJP	M. Venkaiah Naidu	BJP
3	Vijayendrapal Singh	BJP	Ram Kumar Verma	BJP
4	Anand Sharma	Congress	Harshvardhan Singh	BJP

Tamil Nadu

Seat No	Previous MP		Elected MP		Reference
1	K. P. Ramalingam	DMK	R. S. Bharathi	DMK	^[5]

2	S. Thangavelu	DMK	T. K. S. Elangovan	DMK
3	A. Navaneethakrishnan	ADMK	A. Navaneethakrishnan	ADMK
4	P. H. Paul Manoj Pandian	ADMK	S. R. Balasubramoniyan	ADMK
5	A. W. Rabi Bernard	ADMK	A. Vijayakumar	ADMK
6	E. M. Sudarsana Natchiappan	Congress	R. Vaithilingam	ADMK

Telangana

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Gundu Sudha Rani		TDP	D. Srinivas		TRS	^[5]
2	V. Hanumantha Rao		Congress	V. Lakshmikantha Rao		TRS	^[5]

Uttar Pradesh

Seat No	Previous MP		Elected MP		Reference
1	Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi	BJP	Shiv Pratap Shukla	BJP	^[5]
2	Vishambhar Prasad Nishad	SP	Vishambhar Prasad Nishad	SP
3	Smt Kanak Lata Singh	SP	Amar Singh	SP
4	Arvind Kumar Singh	SP	Surendra Nagar	SP
5	Satish Sharma	Congress	Kapil Sibal	Congress
6	Jugal Kishore	BSP	Sanjay Seth	SP
7	Narendra Kumar Kashyap	BSP	Sukhram Singh Yadav	SP
8	Salim Ansari	BSP	Rewati Raman Singh	SP
9	Rajpal Singh Saini	BSP	Beni Prasad Verma	SP
10	Satish Chandra Mishra	BSP	Satish Chandra Mishra	BSP
11	Ambeth Rajan	BSP	Ashok Siddharth	BSP

Uttarakhand

Seat No	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Tarun Vijay		BJP	Pradeep Tamta		Congress	^[5]

Bye elections

A bye election was held on June 11, to fill the vacancy caused by death of Praveen Rashtrapal, who represented Gujarat.^[7] Parsottambhai Rupala was elected for the vacancy.
Another bye election was held on October 17, to fill the vacancy created by resignation of member Najma Heptullah, who represented Madhya Pradesh, and resigned after being appointed Governor of Manipur.^[8] La Ganesan was elected in the special election.

Sr No	State	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party
1	Gujarat	Praveen Rashtrapal		INC	Parsottambhai Rupala		BJP
2	Madhya Pradesh	Najma Heptullah		BJP	La Ganesan		BJP

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