# 2019 Rajya Sabha elections

2019 Rajya Sabha elections were held throughout 2019, to fill the vacancies in the Rajya Sabha, the Indian Parliament's upper chamber. The elections were held to elect 2 members from Assam as well as 6 members from Tamil Nadu. By-elections were held for 14 seats among various states.
The elections resulted in the ruling BJP maintaining and increasing their majority with a net gain of 6 seats.

## Results
### Elections
#### Assam

| Seat No | Previous MP | Previous Party | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Elected Party | Reference |
| 1 | Manmohan Singh | | Indian National Congress | Kamakhya Prasad Tasa | | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2 | Santiuse Kujur | | Indian National Congress | Birendra Prasad Baishya | | Asom Gana Parishad | |

#### Tamil Nadu

| Seat No | Previous MP | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party |
| 1 | R. Lakshmanan | All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | A. Mohammedjan | All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |
| 2 | V. Maitreyan | All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | N. Chandrasekaran | All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |
| 3 | K. R. Arjunan | All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | Anbumani Ramadoss | Pattali Makkal Katchi |
| 4 | T. Rathinavel | All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | M. Shanmugam | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |
| 5 | Kanimozhi | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | P. Wilson | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |
| 6 | D. Raja | Communist Party of India | Vaiko | Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |

### By-elections

Aside from automatic elections, unforeseen vacancies caused by members' resignation, death or disqualification, are unless a few months before the expected natural expiry of the term of tenure, filled via by-elections, which for the Rajya Sabha often take some months to organise.

#### Bihar

* On 23 May 2019 Ravi Shankar Prasad Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Bihar due to his election as the member of Lok Sabha From Patna Sahib
* On 8 September 2019 Ram Jethmalani Had Died
| S.No | Former MP | Party | Party | Date of Vacancy | Elected MP | Party | Party | Date of appointment | Date of retirement |
| 1 | Ravi Shankar Prasad | | Bharatiya Janata Party | 23 May 2019 | Ram Vilas Paswan | | Lok Janshakti Party | 28 June 2019 | 2 April 2024 |
| 2 | Ram Jethmalani | | Rashtriya Janata Dal | 8 September 2019 | Satish Chandra Dubey | | Bharatiya Janata Party | 9 October 2019 | 7 July 2022 |

#### Gujarat

* On 23 May 2019 Amit Shah Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat due to his election as the member of Lok Sabha From Gandhinagar
* On 24 May 2019 Smriti Irani Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat due to her election as the member of Lok Sabha From Amethi
| S.No | Former MP | Party | Party | Date of Vacancy | Elected MP | Party | Party | Date of appointment | Date of retirement |
| 1 | Amit Shah | | Bharatiya Janata Party | 23 May 2019 | S. Jaishankar | | Bharatiya Janata Party | 5 July 2019 | 18 August 2023 |
| 2 | Smriti Irani | | Bharatiya Janata Party | 24 May 2019 | Jugalji Thakore | | Bharatiya Janata Party | 5 July 2019 | 18 August 2023 |

#### Odisha

* On 24 May 2019 Achyuta Samanta Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Odisha due to his election as the member of Lok Sabha From Kandhamal
* On 6 June 2019 Soumya Ranjan Patnaik Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Odisha due to his election as the member of Odisha Legislative Assembly From Khandapada
* On 6 June 2019 Pratap Keshari Deb Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Odisha due to his election as the member of Odisha Legislative Assembly From Aul
| S.No | Former MP | Party | Date of Vacancy | Elected MP | Party | Date of appointment | Date of retirement |
| 1 | Achyuta Samanta | Biju Janata Dal | 24 May 2019 | Ashwini Vaishnaw | Bharatiya Janata Party | 28 June 2019 | 3 April 2024 |
| 2 | Soumya Ranjan Patnaik | Biju Janata Dal | 6 June 2019 | Amar Patnaik | Biju Janata Dal | 28 June 2019 | 3 April 2024 |
| 3 | Pratap Keshari Deb | Biju Janata Dal | 9 June 2019 | Sasmit Patra | Biju Janata Dal | 28 June 2019 | 1 July 2022 |

#### Rajasthan

* 24 June 2019 Madan Lal Saini Had Died
| S.No | Former MP | Party | Party | Date of Vacancy | Elected MP | Party | Party | Date of appointment | Date of retirement |
| 1 | Madan Lal Saini | | Bharatiya Janata Party | 24 June 2019 | Manmohan Singh | | Indian National Congress | 26 August 2019 | 3 April 2024 |

#### Uttar Pradesh

* On 15 July 2019 Neeraj Sekhar Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh And Membership Of Samajwadi Party And Joined Bharatiya Janata Party
* On 2 August 2019 Surendra Singh Nagar Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh And Membership Of Samajwadi Party And Joined Bharatiya Janata Party
* On 5 August 2019 Sanjay Seth Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh And Membership Of Samajwadi Party And Joined Bharatiya Janata Party
* On 24 August 2019 Arun Jaitley Had Died
* On 24 October 2019 Tazeen Fatma Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh due to her election as the member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly On 21 October by-poll From Rampur
| S.No | Former MP | Party | Date of Vacancy | Elected MP | Party | Date of appointment | Date of retirement |
| 1 | Neeraj Shekhar | Samajwadi Party | 15 July 2019 | Neeraj Shekhar | Bharatiya Janata Party | 26 August 2019 | 25 November 2020 |
| 2 | Surendra Singh Nagar | Samajwadi Party | 2 August 2019 | Surendra Singh Nagar | Bharatiya Janata Party | 16 September 2019 | 4 July 2022 |
| 3 | Sanjay Seth | Samajwadi Party | 5 August 2019 | Sanjay Seth | Bharatiya Janata Party | 16 September 2019 | 4 July 2022 |
| 4 | Arun Jaitley | Bharatiya Janata Party | 24 August 2019 | Sudhanshu Trivedi | Bharatiya Janata Party | 9 October 2019 | 2 April 2024 |
| 5 | Tazeen Fatma | Samajwadi Party | 24 October 2019 | Arun Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | 5 December 2019 | 25 November 2020 |

#### Karnataka

* On 16 October 2019 K. C. Ramamurthy Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka And Membership of Indian National Congress And Joined Bharatiya Janata Party
| S.No | Former MP | Party | Party | Date of Vacancy | Elected MP | Party | Party | Date of appointment | Date of retirement |
| 1 | K. C. Ramamurthy | | Indian National Congress | 16 October 2019 | K. C. Ramamurthy | | Bharatiya Janata Party | 5 December 2019 | 30 June 2022 |