2026 Rajya Sabha elections

2026 Rajya Sabha elections
← 2025 March – November 2026 2027 →
73 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]
Date of Notification	26 February 2026
Last date for filing nomination	5 March 2026
Scrutiny of nomination	6 March 2026
Last date for withdrawal of nomination	9 March 2026
Date of Poll (if necessary) & Declaration of Result	16 March 2026

Members Retiring and Elected

March Election

Election were held in Bihar, Haryana & Odisha to elect its Rajya Sabha MPs on 16 March 2026. For rest of the states, MPs have won uncontested as number of candidates matched the number of available seats after nominations and withdrawals period.^[6]

Assam

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP
1	Bhubaneshwar Kalita	BJP	09-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)	09-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	09-Apr-2026	Laxmi Verma		BJP
2	Phulo Devi Netam		INC	09-Apr-2026	Phulo Devi Netam		INC

Haryana

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Kiran Chaudhary		BJP	09-Apr-2026	Sanjay Bhatia		BJP
2	Ram Chander Jangra		BJP	09-Apr-2026	Karamvir Singh Boudh		INC

Himachal Pradesh

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Indu Goswami		BJP	09-Apr-2026	Anurag Sharma		INC

Maharashtra

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP
1	Dhairyashil Patil	BJP	02-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	02-Apr-2026	Manmohan Samal	BJP
2	Sujeet Kumar	BJP		Sujeet Kumar	BJP
3	Munna Khan	BJD		Santrupta Mishra	BJD
4	Niranjan Bishi	BJD		Dilip Ray	IND

Tamil Nadu

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP
1	Tiruchi Siva	DMK	02-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	09-Apr-2026	Abhishek Manu Singhvi		INC
2	K. R. Suresh Reddy		BRS	09-Apr-2026	Vem Narender Reddy		INC

West Bengal

#	Previous MP		Term end	Elected MP
1	Subrata Bakshi	AITC	02-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

May Election

Andhra Pradesh

#	Previous MP		Term end
1	Sana Satish	TDP	21-Jun-2026	TDP
2	Alla Ayodhya Rami Reddy	YSRCP
3	Pilli Subhash Chandra Bose
4	Parimal Nathwani			JSP

Arunachal Pradesh

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

Gujarat

#	Previous MP		Term end
1	Rambhai Mokariya	BJP	21-Jun-2026	BJP
2	Ramilaben Bara
3	Narhari Amin
4	Shaktisinh Gohil	INC

Jharkhand

#	Previous MP	Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party
1	Vacant (Shibu Soren)						JMM
2	Deepak Prakash		BJP	21-Jun-2026			JMM

Karnataka

#	Previous MP		Term end
1	Iranna B. Kadadi	BJP	25-Jun-2026	BJP
2	K. Narayan	BJP		INC
3	Mallikarjun Kharge	INC
4	H. D. Deve Gowda	JD(S)

Madhya Pradesh

#	Previous MP		Term end
1	George Kurian	BJP	21-Jun-2026	BJP
2	Sumer Singh Solanki	BJP		BJP
3	Digvijaya Singh	INC		INC

Manipur

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

Meghalaya

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

Mizoram

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

Rajasthan

#	Previous MP		Term end
1	Rajendra Gehlot	BJP	21-Jun-2026	BJP
2	Ravneet Singh Bittu	BJP		BJP
3	Neeraj Dangi	INC		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	Party
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				SP
9	Ram Gopal Yadav	SP			SP
10	Ramji Gautam	BSP		^[h]

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	TBD

Notes

^ including 1 casual vacancy
^ 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.^[7]
^ Quota = 403 ÷ (10+1) + 1 = 37 votes. NDA with 294 MLAs could win seven seats and INDIA with 104 MLAs could win two seats; the remaining votes are NDA 35, INDIA 30 and Others 3. Since none reach 37, the result of the tenth seat depends on the stand of the three Other MLAs (JD(L)-2, BSP-1) and three by-elections.

References

^ "Statewise Retirement". rajyasabha.nic.in.
^ ^a ^b "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.
^ "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.

[1] uding 1 casual vacancy

[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

[14] Defected from TMC to INC in January 2026.^[7]

[15] Quota = 403 ÷ (10+1) + 1 = 37 votes. NDA with 294 MLAs could win seven seats and INDIA with 104 MLAs could win two seats; the remaining votes are NDA 35, INDIA 30 and Others 3. Since none reach 37, the result of the tenth seat depends on the stand of the three Other MLAs (JD(L)-2, BSP-1) and three by-elections.

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

[:0-8] "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] "Rajya Sabha polls: Tight contests loom in Bihar, Odisha, Haryana after 26 elected unopposed". Moneycontrol. 2026-03-16. Retrieved 2026-03-16.

[13] "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.

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