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.
Results
| Alliance/ Party | Seats | +/– | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NDA | Bharatiya Janata Party | 3 | +2 | ||
| All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | 2 | +1 | |||
| Asom Gana Parishad | 1 | 0 | |||
| Pattali Makkal Katchi | 0 | -1 | |||
| Total | 6 | +2 | |||
| 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 | |||
Elections
| # | Previous MP | Term end | Elected MP | Party | Term start | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mission Ranjan Das | BJP | 14-Jun-2025 | Kanad Purkayastha[4] | BJP | 15-Jun-2025 | ||
| 2 | Birendra Prasad Baishya | AGP | Birendra Prasad Baishya[4] | AGP | ||||
| # | Previous MP | Previous Party | Term end | Elected MP | Party | Term start | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | N. Chandrasegharan | AIADMK | 24 July 2025 | M. Dhanapal[5] | AIADMK | 25 July 2025 | ||
| 2 | Anbumani Ramadoss | PMK | I. S. Inbadurai[5] | |||||
| 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 | ||||
| # | Previous MP | Party | Vacancy date | Elected MP | Party | Term start | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vacant (Shamsheer Singh Manhas) | 10-Feb-2021 | Chowdhary Mohammad Ramzan[6] | JKNC | 25-Oct-2025 | |||
| 2 | Vacant (Fayaz Ahmad Mir) | Sajjad Ahmad Kichloo[6] | ||||||
| 3 | Vacant (Nazir Ahmad Laway) | 15-Feb-2021 | Gurvinder Singh Oberoi[6] | |||||
| 4 | Vacant (Ghulam Nabi Azad) | Sat Paul Sharma[6] | BJP | |||||
By-elections
| # | Previous MP | Party | Vacancy date | Elected MP | Party | Term start | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | V. Vijayasai Reddy | YSRCP | 25-Jan-2025 | P. Venkata Satyanarayana[7] | BJP | 9-May-2025 | ||
| # | Previous MP | Party | Vacancy date | Elected MP | Party | Term start | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sanjeev Arora | AAP | 1-July-2025 | Rajinder Gupta[8] | AAP | 17-Oct-2025 | ||
Nominations
| # | Previous MP | Affiliation | Nominated MP | Affiliation | Field | Term start | Nominated by | Reference | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sonal Mansingh | BJP | Meenakshi Jain | NOM | Literature and Education | 13-July-2025 | Droupadi Murmu | [9] | ||
| 2 | Ram Shakal | Harsh Vardhan Shringla | BJP | Diplomacy | ||||||
| 3 | Rakesh Sinha | Ujjwal Nikam | Law | |||||||
| 4 | Mahesh Jethmalani | 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.
- ^ 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.