2020 Indian Rajya Sabha elections


2020 Rajya Sabha elections is the set of indirect elections by the members of State legislatures of India, to elect new members to fill vacancies in the Rajya Sabha – the upper house of the Parliament of India. The elections are held annually and throughout the year on an ad hoc basis. The elections in 2020 are for a total of 73 seats of which 55 of them were to be elected by March 26. The remaining were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Election Commission of India later announced all the elections for the remaining 24 Rajya Sabha seats were to be held on 19 June 2020.
On 12 June 2020, Election commission of India declared unopposed victory over 4 seats of Karnataka and 1 seat of Arunachal Pradesh. Leaving behind 19 seats to go for elections on 19 June 2020.

Elections

StateMembers retiringDate of retirement
Uttar Pradesh10 + 1 22 June 2022
25 November 2020
Kerala1 22 March 2022
Uttarakhand125 November 2020

Members retiring

Note:

Maharashtra">List of Rajya Sabha members from Maharashtra">Maharashtra

Odisha">List of Rajya Sabha members from Odisha">Odisha

Tamil Nadu">List of Rajya Sabha members from Tamil Nadu">Tamil Nadu

West Bengal">List of Rajya Sabha members from West Bengal">West Bengal

Andhra Pradesh">List of Rajya Sabha members from Andhra Pradesh">Andhra Pradesh

Assam">List of Rajya Sabha members from Assam">Assam

Bihar">List of Rajya Sabha members from Bihar">Bihar

Chhattisgarh">List of Rajya Sabha members from Chhattisgarh">Chhattisgarh

Gujarat">List of Rajya Sabha members from Gujarat">Gujarat

Haryana">List of Rajya Sabha members from Haryana">Haryana

Himachal Pradesh">List of Rajya Sabha members from Himachal Pradesh">Himachal Pradesh

Jharkhand">List of Rajya Sabha members from Jharkhand">Jharkhand

Madhya Pradesh">List of Rajya Sabha members from Madhya Pradesh">Madhya Pradesh

Manipur">List of Rajya Sabha members from Manipur">Manipur

Rajasthan">List of Rajya Sabha members from Rajasthan">Rajasthan

Telangana">List of Rajya Sabha members from Telangana">Telangana

Meghalaya">List of Rajya Sabha members from Meghalaya">Meghalaya

Arunachal Pradesh">List of Rajya Sabha members from Arunachal Pradesh">Arunachal Pradesh

Karnataka">List of Rajya Sabha members from Karnataka">Karnataka

Mizoram">List of Rajya Sabha members from Mizoram">Mizoram

Uttar Pradesh">List of Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh">Uttar Pradesh

Uttarakhand">List of Rajya Sabha members from Uttarakhand">Uttarakhand

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.

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