2025 Rajya Sabha elections
June - October 2025
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14[a] of the 233[b] elected seats in the Rajya Sabha 123[c] total seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2025 Rajya Sabha elections were held as part of a routine six-year cycle of the upper house of the Parliament of India from 19 June to 24 October 2025 to elect 14 of its 245 members (including 2 by-elections), of which the states through their legislators elect 233, and the remaining 12 are appointed by the President.[1][2][3]
The ruling National Democratic Alliance retained its majority in the house.
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. Candidate have to reach a specific quota of votes in order to win a seat.[4]
For a single-seat election, each ballot is valued at one. When multiple seats are filled, the ballot value is set to one hundred.[5]
A candidate is elected unopposed when the number of candidates matches the number of available seats after nominations and withdrawals period.[6]
Results
| Alliance/ Party | Seats | +/– | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NDA | Bharatiya Janata Party | 3 | +2 | ||
| All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | 2 | +1 | |||
| Asom Gana Parishad | 1 | 0 | |||
| Total | 6 | +3 | |||
| INDIA | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | 3 | 0 | ||
| Jammu & Kashmir National Conference | 3 | +3 | |||
| Makkal Needhi Maiam | 1 | +1 | |||
| Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | 0 | -1 | |||
| Total | 7 | +3 | |||
| Others | Aam Aadmi Party | 1 | 0 | ||
| Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party | 0 | -1 | |||
Members retiring and elected
June election
| # | Previous MP | Term end | Elected MP | Party | Term start | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mission Ranjan Das | BJP | 14-Jun-2025 | Kanad Purkayastha[7] | BJP | 15-Jun-2025 | ||
| 2 | Birendra Prasad Baishya | AGP | Birendra Prasad Baishya[7] | AGP | ||||
| # | Previous MP | Previous Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | Term start | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | N. Chandrasegharan | AIADMK | 24 July 2025 | M. Dhanapal[8] | AIADMK | 25 July 2025 | ||
| 2 | Anbumani Ramadoss | PMK | I. S. Inbadurai[8] | |||||
| 3 | M. M. Abdulla | DMK | Salma[8] | DMK | ||||
| 4 | M. Shanmugam | S. R. Sivalingam[8] | ||||||
| 5 | P. Wilson | P. Wilson[8] | ||||||
| 6 | Vaiko | MDMK | Kamal Haasan[8] | MNM | ||||
October election
| # | Previous MP | Party | Vacancy date | Elected MP | Party | Term start | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vacant (Shamsheer Singh Manhas) | 10-Feb-2021 | Chowdhary Mohammad Ramzan[9] | JKNC | 25-Oct-2025 | |||
| 2 | Vacant (Fayaz Ahmad Mir) | Sajjad Ahmad Kichloo[9] | ||||||
| 3 | Vacant (Nazir Ahmad Laway) | 15-Feb-2021 | Gurvinder Singh Oberoi[9] | |||||
| 4 | Vacant (Ghulam Nabi Azad) | Sat Paul Sharma[9] | BJP | |||||
By-elections
| # | Previous MP | Party | Vacancy date | Elected MP | Party | Term start | Term end | Reason for Vacancy | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | V. Vijayasai Reddy | YSRCP | 25-Jan-2025 | P. Venkata Satyanarayana[10] | BJP | 9-May-2025 | 21-Jun-2028 | Resignation | ||
| # | Previous MP | Party | Vacancy date | Elected MP | Party | Term start | Term end | Reason for Vacancy | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sanjeev Arora | AAP | 1-July-2025 | Rajinder Gupta[11] | AAP | 17-Oct-2025 | 09-Apr-2028 | Elected to 16th Punjab Assembly | ||
Nominations
| # | Nominated MP | Affiliation | Field | Term start | Nominated by | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meenakshi Jain | NOM | Literature and Education | 13-July-2025 | Droupadi Murmu | [12] | |
| 2 | Harsh Vardhan Shringla | BJP | Diplomacy | ||||
| 3 | Ujjwal Nikam | Law | |||||
| 4 | C. Sadanandan Master | Social work | |||||
Notes
- ^ Including two casual vacancies
- ^ excluding 12 nominated seats
- ^ out of 244 (excluding one vacancy and including 12 nominated seats)
- ^ excluding two nominated members
- ^ excluding 5 nominated members
- ^ excluding 8 nominated members
- ^ excluding 12 nominated members
- ^ including the support of 8 nominated members
- ^ including the support of 12 nominated members
References
- ^ "Statewise Retirement". rajyasabha.nic.in.
- ^ "Elections to 8 Rajya Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu, Assam on June 19". The Economic Times. 2025-05-26. ISSN 0013-0389. Archived from the original on 2025-07-11. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
- ^ "Election Commission announces polls for 4 Rajya Sabha seats of Jammu and Kashmir on October 24". India TV News. 2025-09-24. Archived from the original on 2025-10-01. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
- ^ "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.
- ^ a b "Assam: BJP's Kanad Purkayastha, AGP's Birendra Prasad Baishya elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha". The Economic Times. 2025-06-13. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 2025-11-23.
- ^ a b c d e f "Kamal Haasan, five others declared elected to Rajya Sabha unopposed". The New Indian Express. 2025-06-13. Retrieved 2025-11-23.
- ^ a b c d "National Conference wins three Rajya Sabha seats in J&K; 'cross-voting' gives BJP one". The Hindu. 2025-10-24. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2025-11-23.
- ^ "BJP's P Venkata Satyanarayana wins Andhra Pradesh Rajya Sabha seat unopposed". India Today. 2025-05-06. Retrieved 2025-11-23.
- ^ "AAP's Rajinder Gupta elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha". The Times of India. 2025-10-17. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2025-11-23.
- ^ "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.