# 2012 Rajya Sabha elections

Rajya Sabha elections were held on various dates in 2012, to elect members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber. The elections were held in January to elect respectively 3 members from NCT of Delhi, one member from Sikkim, and in March for 57 members from 15 States for the Rajya Sabha and in June for three members from Kerala.
The bye-elections to Council of States were also held from the States of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra.

## January Elections
### NCT of Delhi

| Seat No | Previous MP | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party |
| 1 | Karan Singh | Congress | Karan Singh | Congress |
| 2 | Janardan Dwivedi | Congress | Janardan Dwivedi | Congress |
| 3 | Parvez Hashmi | Congress | Parvez Hashmi | Congress |

### Sikkim

| Seat No | Previous MP | Previous Party | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Elected Party | Reference |
| 1 | O. T. Lepcha | | SDF | Hishey Lachungpa | | SDF | |

## March Elections
### Andhra Pradesh

| Seat No | Previous MP | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party |
| 1 | Raashid Alvi | Congress | Chiranjeevi | Congress |
| 2 | K. Keshava Rao | Congress | Renuka Chowdary | Congress |
| 3 | Dasari Narayana Rao | Congress | Rapolu Ananda Bhaskar | Congress |
| 4 | G. Sanjeeva Reddy | Congress | P. Govardhan Reddy | Congress |
| 5 | M. V. Mysura Reddy | TDP | T.Devender Goud | TDP |
| 6 | Syed Azeez Pasha | CPI | C. M. Ramesh | TDP |

### Bihar

| Seat No | Previous MP | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party |
| 1 | Ravi Shankar Prasad | BJP | Ravi Shankar Prasad | BJP |
| 2 | Jabir Husain | RJD | Dharmendra Pradhan | BJP |
| 3 | Mahendra Prasad | JD(U) | Mahendra Prasad | JD(U) |
| 4 | Ali Anwar Ansari | JD(U) | Ali Anwar Ansari | JD(U) |
| 5 | Anil Kumar Sahani | JD(U) | Anil Kumar Sahani | JD(U) |
| 6 | Rajniti Prasad | RJD | Bashistha Narain Singh | JD(U) |

### Chhattisgarh

| Sr No | Previous MP | Previous Party | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Elected Party | Reference |
| 1 | Shreegopal Vyas | | BJP | Dr Bhushan Lal Jangde | | BJP | |

### Gujarat

| Seat No | Previous MP | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party |
| 1 | Arun Jaitley | BJP | Arun Jaitley | BJP |
| 2 | Vijay Rupani | BJP | Shankarbhai Vegad | BJP |
| 3 | Kanjibhai Patel | BJP | Mansukh L. Mandaviya | BJP |
| 4 | Praveen Rashtrapal | Congress | Praveen Rashtrapal | Congress |

### Haryana

| Seat No | Previous MP | Previous Party | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Elected Party | Reference |
| 1 | Shadi Lal Batra | | Congress | Shadi Lal Batra | | Congress | |

### Himachal Pradesh

| Sr No | Previous MP | Previous Party | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Elected Party | Reference |
| 1 | Viplove Thakur | | Congress | Jagat Prakash Nadda | | BJP | |

### Jharkhand

| Seat No | Previous MP | Previous Party | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Elected Party | Reference |
| 1 | S. S. Ahluwalia | | BJP | Sanjiv Kumar | | JMM | |
| 2 | Mabel Rebello | | Congress | Pradeep Kumar Balmuchu | | Congress | |

### Karnataka

| Seat No | Previous MP | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party |
| 1 | Hema Malini | BJP | R Ramakrishna | BJP |
| 2 | K. B. Shanappa | BJP | Basavaraj Patil Sedam | BJP |
| 3 | K. Rahman Khan | Congress | K. Rahman Khan | Congress |
| 4 | Rajeev Chandrasekhar | Independent | Rajeev Chandrasekhar | Independent |

### Madhya Pradesh

| Seat No | Previous MP | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party |
| 1 | Kaptan Singh Solanki | BJP | Kaptan Singh Solanki | BJP |
| 2 | Anusuiya Uikey | BJP | Najma Heptulla | BJP |
| 3 | Meghraj Jain | BJP | Faggan Singh Kulaste | BJP |
| 4 | Narayan Singh Kesari | BJP | Thawar Chand Gehlot | BJP |
| 5 | Vikram Singh | BJP | Satyavrat Chaturvedi | Congress |

### Maharashtra

| Seat No | Previous MP | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party |
| 1 | Balavant Apte | BJP | Ajay Sancheti | BJP |
| 2 | Vilasrao Deshmukh | Congress | Vilasrao Deshmukh | Congress |
| 3 | Rajeev Shukla | Congress | Rajeev Shukla | Congress |
| 4 | Govindrao Adik | NCP | Vandana Chavan | NCP |
| 5 | Ranjitsinh Mohite-Patil | NCP | D.P.Tripathi | NCP |
| 6 | Manohar Joshi | SHS | Anil Desai | SHS |

### Odisha

| Seat No | Previous MP | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party |
| 1 | Kishore Kumar Mohanti | BJD | Dilip Tirkey | BJD |
| 2 | Rudra Narayan Pany | BJP | A V Swamy | BJD |
| 3 | Sushila Tiriya | Congress | Ananga Udaya Singh Deo | BJD |

### Rajasthan

| Seat No | Previous MP | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party |
| 1 | Abhishek Manu Singhvi | Congress | Abhishek Manu Singhvi | Congress |
| 2 | Narendra Budania | Congress | Narendra Budania | Congress |
| 3 | Ramdas Agarwal | BJP | Bhupender Yadav | BJP |

### Uttar Pradesh

| Seat No | Previous MP | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Reference |
| 1 | Kalraj Mishra | BJP | Jaya Bachchan | SP | |
| 2 | Naresh Agrawal | SP | Naresh Agrawal | SP | |
| 3 | Veerpal Singh Yadav | SP | Darshan Singh Yadav | SP | |
| 4 | Mahendra Mohan | SP | Munvvar Saleem | SP | |
| 5 | Jai Prakash | BSP | Mayawati | BSP | |
| 6 | Ganga Charan Rajput | BSP | Munquad Ali | BSP | |
| 7 | Pramod Kureel | BSP | Brij Bhushan Tiwari | SP | |
| 8 | Munkad | BSP | Kiranmay Nanda | SP | |
| 9 | Vinay Katiyar | BJP | Vinay Katiyar | BJP | |
| 10 | Mahmood Madani | RLD | Rasheed Masood | Congress | Disq 19/09/2013 |

### Uttarakhand

| Seat No | Previous MP | Previous Party | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Elected Party | Reference |
| 1 | Satyavrat Chaturvedi | | INC | Mahendra Singh Mahra | | INC | |

### West Bengal

| Seat No | Previous MP | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party |
| 1 | Tapan Kumar Sen | CPM | Tapan Kumar Sen | CPM |
| 2 | Moinul Hassan | CPM | Md. Nadimul Haque | AITC |
| 3 | Saman Pathak | CPM | Vivek Gupta | AITC |
| 4 | R. C. Singh | CPM | Kunal Kumar Ghosh | AITC |
| 5 | Mukul Roy | AITC | Mukul Roy | AITC |

## June Election
### Kerala

| Seat No | Previous MP | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party |
| 1 | P. J. Kurien | Congress | P. J. Kurien | Congress |
| 2 | K. E. Ismail | CPI | Joy Abraham | KC(M) |
| 3 | P. R. Rajan | CPM | C.P. Narayanan | CPM |

## Bye-elections

The following bye-elections were held in the year 2012.
* The bye election was held, to fill the vacancy caused by death of Brij Bhushan Tiwari representing Uttar Pradesh. Alok Tiwari was elected unopposed on June 18, 2012, with the term till 2 April 2018.
* The bye election was held, to fill the vacancy caused by death of Vilasrao Deshmukh representing Maharashtra. Rajni Patil was elected unopposed on December 30, with the term till 2 April 2018.
| Seat No | State | Previous MP | Previous Party | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Elected Party | Reference |
| 1 | Uttar Pradesh | Brij Bhushan Tiwari | | SP | Alok Tiwari | | SP | |
| 2 | Maharashtra | Vilasrao Deshmukh | | INC | Rajni Patil | | INC | |