2025 Rajya Sabha elections
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11 seats in the Rajya Sabha[a] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2025 Rajya Sabha elections will be held as part of a routine six-year cycle among the State Legislatures in India on July and August 2025 to elect 11 of its 245 members, of which the states through their legislators elect 233, and the President appoints the remaining 4. 3 of the 11 elections are by-elections.[1]
Elections
| # | Previous MP | Term End | Elected MP | Party | Term Start | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mission Ranjan Das | BJP | 14-Jun-2025 | Kanad Purkayastha[2] | BJP | 15-Jun-2025 | ||
| 2 | Birendra Prasad Baishya | AGP | Birendra Prasad Baishya[3] | AGP | ||||
| # | Previous MP | Previous Party | Term End | Elected MP | Party | Term Start | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | N. Chandrasegharan | AIADMK | 24 July 2025 | M. Dhanapal[4] | AIADMK | 25 July 2025 | ||
| 2 | Anbumani Ramadoss | PMK | I. S. Inbadurai[4] | |||||
| 3 | M. M. Abdulla | DMK | Salma[5] | DMK | ||||
| 4 | M. Shanmugam | S. R. Sivalingam[5] | ||||||
| 5 | P. Wilson | P. Wilson[5] | ||||||
| 6 | Vaiko | MDMK | Kamal Haasan[5] | MNM | ||||
By-elections
| # | Previous MP | Party | Vacancy date | Elected MP | Party | Term start | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | V. Vijayasai Reddy | YSRCP | 25-Jan-2025 | P. Venkata Satyanarayana[6] | BJP | 9-May-2025 | ||
| # | Previous MP | Party | Vacancy date | Elected MP | Party | Term start | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shibu Soren | JMM | 4-August-2025 | TBA | JMM | TBA | ||
| # | Previous MP | Party | Vacancy date | Elected MP | Party | Term start | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sanjeev Arora | AAP | 1-July-2025 | TBD | AAP | TBD | ||
Nominations
| # | Previous MP | Affiliation | Nominated MP | Affilation | Field | Term start | Nominated by | Reference | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sonal Mansingh | BJP | Meenakshi Jain | NOM | Diplomacy | 13-July-2025 | Droupadi Murmu | [7] | ||
| 2 | Ram Shakal | Harsh Vardhan Shringla | BJP | Literature and Education | ||||||
| 3 | Rakesh Sinha | Ujjwal Nikam | Law | |||||||
| 4 | Mahesh Jethmalani | C. Sadanandan Master | Social work | |||||||
Notes
- ^ Including two casual vacancies
References
- ^ "Statewise Retirement". rajyasabha.nic.in.
- ^ The Hindu (2025-06-07). "BJP nominates Kanad Purkayastha for Rajya Sabha seat from Assam". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2025-06-09.
- ^ Northeast (2025-06-08). "AGP renominates Birendra Prasad Baishya for Rajya Sabha poll from Assam". Northeast News - Northeast India news 24×7. Retrieved 2025-06-09.
- ^ a b DTNEXT (2025-06-01). "AIADMK nominates ex-MLAs Inbadurai and Dhanapal for Rajya Sabha seats". www.dtnext.in. Retrieved 2025-06-09.
- ^ a b c d The Hindu (2025-05-28). "DMK announces candidates for Rajya Sabha election; allots one seat to Kamal Haasan". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2025-06-09.
- ^ Viswanath, S. (2025-04-23). "Andhra CM Naidu agrees to concede Rajya Sabha seat to BJP". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2025-04-23.
- ^ "Former Foreign Secretary Shringla, Ujjwal Nikam, C. Sadanandan Master, and Meenakshi Jain nominated to Rajya Sabha". The Hindu. 2025-07-13. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2025-07-13.