2014 Rajya Sabha elections

Rajya Sabha elections were held on three dates in 2014, to elect members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber. The elections were held in February, June, and November to elect respectively 55, 6, and 11 of its 245 members, from 16 of the States.^[1][2][3] They are held by an open ballot (for public scrutiny) on a single transferable vote (STV) basis among State legislators. Being even-numbered, 2014 was a year in which about 30% of the State Legislature-elected 233-seat component of the body is elected.

2014 Rajya Sabha elections

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72 seats to the Rajya Sabha
First party Second party   Leader Manmohan Singh[n 1] Arun Jaitley Party INC BJP Alliance UPA NDA Leader since 21 March 1998 3 June 2009 Leader's seat Assam Gujarat Seats before 72 48 Seats won 69 45 Seat change 3 3

In addition to the 72 seats re-filled in this year of the six-year cycle (as the term of seat tenure is six years), 13 by-elections were held in 2014.

As of 2020, this is the last year in which the Bharatiya Janata Party has lost seats.

February elections

The elections in February were from 16 State legislatures, and all were held on February 7, 2014.^[3]

Maharashtra

Has 19 members.

#	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Husain Dalwai		INC	Husain Dalwai		INC	[4]
2	Murli Deora			Murli Deora
3	Yogendra P. Tiwari		NCP	Sharad Pawar		NCP
4	Janardan Waghmare			Majeed Memon
5	Rajkumar Dhoot		SHS	Rajkumar Dhoot		SHS
6	Bharatkumar Raut			Sanjay Kakade		Ind
7	Prakash Javadekar		BJP	Ramdas Athawale		RPI(A)

Odisha

Has 10 members.

#	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Mangala Kisan		BJD	Sarojini Hembram		BJD	[4]
2	Renubala Pradhan			Anubhav Mohanty
3	Balbir Punj		BJP	Ananga Udaya Singh Deo
4	Ramachandra Khuntia		INC	Ranjib Biswal		INC

Tamil Nadu

Has 18 members.

#	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	N. Balaganga		ADMK	S. Muthukaruppan		ADMK	[4]
2	G. K. Vasan		INC	Vijila Sathyananth
3	Jayanthi Natarajan			K. Selvaraj
4	S. Amir Ali Jinnah		DMK	Sasikala Pushpa
5	Vasanthi Stanley			Tiruchi Siva		DMK
6	T. K. Rangarajan		CPM	T. K. Rangarajan		CPM

West Bengal

Has 16 members.

#	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Tarini Kanta Roy		CPM	Ritabrata Banerjee		CPM	[4]
2	Prasanta Chatterjee			Kanwar Deep Singh		TMC
3	Shyamal Chakraborty			Jogen Chowdhury
4	Barun Mukherji		AIFB	Ahmed Hassan Imran
5	Ahmed Saeed Malihabadi		Ind	Mithun Chakraborty

Andhra Pradesh

Has 11 members.

Sr No	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	T. Subbarami Reddy		INC	T. Subbarami Reddy		INC	[4]
2	Mohd. Ali Khan			Mohd. Ali Khan
3	K. V. P. Ramachandra Rao			K. V. P. Ramachandra Rao
4	Nandi Yellaiah			K. Keshava Rao		TRS
5	T. Ratna Bai			Garikapati Mohan Rao		TDP
6	Nandamuri Harikrishna		TDP	Thota Seetharama Lakshmi

Assam

Has 7 members.

#	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Biswajit Daimary		BPF	Biswajit Daimary		BPF	[4]
2	Bhubaneswar Kalita		INC	Bhubaneswar Kalita		INC
3	Birendra Prasad Baishya		AGP	Sanjay Sinh

Bihar

Has 16 members.

#	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	C. P. Thakur		BJP	C. P. Thakur		BJP	[4]
2	Prem Chand Gupta		RJD	Ravindra Kishore Sinha
3	Shivanand Tiwari		JDU	Kahkashan Perween		JDU
4	N. K. Singh			Harivansh Narayan Singh
5	Sabir Ali			Ram Nath Thakur

Chhattisgarh

Has 5 members.

#	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Motilal Vora		INC	Motilal Vora		INC	[4]
2	Shivpratap Singh		BJP	Ranvijay Singh Judev		BJP

Gujarat

Has 11 members.

#	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Parsottambhai Rupala		BJP	Chunibhai K Gohel		BJP	[4]
2	Natubhai Thakore			Shambhuprasad Tundiya
3	Bharatsinh Parmar			Lal Sinh Vadodia
4	Alka Balram Kshatriya		INC	Madhusudan Mistry		INC

Haryana

Has 5 members.

#	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Ram Prakash		INC	Selja Kumari		INC	[4]
2	Ishwar Singh			Ram Kumar Kashyap		INLD

Himachal Pradesh

Has 3 members.

#	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Shanta Kumar		BJP	Viplove Thakur		INC	[4]

Jharkhand

Has 6 members.

#	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Jai Prakash Narayan Singh		BJP	Prem Chand Gupta		RJD	[4]
2	Parimal Nathwani		Ind	Parimal Nathwani		Ind

Madhya Pradesh

Has 11 members.

#	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Prabhat Jha		BJP	Prabhat Jha		BJP	[4]
2	Maya Singh			Satyanarayan Jatiya
3	Raghunandan Sharma			Digvijaya Singh		INC

Manipur

Has 1 member.

#	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Rishang Keishing		INC	Haji Abdul Salam		INC	[4]

Rajasthan

Has 10 members.

#	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Om Prakash Mathur		BJP	Narayan Lal Panchariya		BJP	[4]
2	Gyan Prakash Pilania			Ramnarayan Dudi
3	Prabha Thakur		INC	Vijay Goel

Meghalaya

Has 1 member.

#	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Wansuk Syiem		INC	Wansuk Syiem		INC	[4]

June elections

Arunachal Pradesh

Has 1 member.

#	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Mukut Mithi		INC	Mukut Mithi		INC	[4]

Karnataka

Has 12 members.

#	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	B. K. Hariprasad		INC	B. K. Hariprasad		INC	[4]
2	S M Krishna			Rajeev Gowda
3	Prabhakar Kore		BJP	Prabhakar Kore		BJP
4	Rama Jois			D. Kupendra Reddy		JDS

Mizoram

Has 1 member.

#	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Lalhming Liana		MNF	Ronald Sapa Tlau		INC	[4]

November elections

The elections in November were from Uttar Pradesh and Uttarkhand, and were held on November 20, 2014.^[1]

Uttar Pradesh

Has 31 members.

#	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Kusum Rai		BJP	Manohar Parrikar		BJP	[4]
2	Ram Gopal Yadav		SP	Ram Gopal Yadav		SP
3	Amar Singh		Ind	Chandrapal Singh Yadav
4	Brajesh Pathak		BSP	Javed Ali Khan
5	Brijlal Khabari			Tazeen Fatma
6	Avtar Singh Karimpuri			Neeraj Shekhar
7	Akhilesh Das Gupta			Ravi Prakash Verma
8	Veer Singh			Veer Singh		BSP
9	Rajaram			Rajaram
10	Mohammed Adeeb		Ind	P. L. Punia		INC

Uttarakhand

Has 3 members.

#	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference
1	Bhagat Singh Koshyari		BJP	Manorama Dobriyal Sharma		INC	[4]

Bye-elections

13 by-elections were held (caused by resignation, death or disqualification).

Seat No	State	Party			Party			Reference[4]
1	Uttar Pradesh	S. P. Singh Baghel		BSP	Vishambhar Prasad Nishad		SP	[5][6]
1	Andhra Pradesh	N. Janardhana Reddy		INC	Nirmala Sitharaman		BJP	[7][6][8]
1	Bihar	Rajiv Pratap Rudy		BJP	Sharad Yadav		JD(U)	[9][6]
2		Ram Kripal Yadav		RJD	Pavan Kumar Varma			[9][6]
3	Ram Vilas Paswan		LJP	Gulam Rasool Balyawi	[9][6]
1	Madhya Pradesh	Faggan Singh Kulaste		BJP	Prakash Javdekar		BJP	[4][6]
1	Maharashtra	Tariq Anwar		NCP	Praful Patel		NCP	[4][6]
2	Madhya Pradesh	Kaptan Singh Solanki		BJP	Meghraj Jain		BJP	[10][11]
1	Tamil Nadu	T. M. Selvaganapathy		DMK	A. Navaneethakrishnan		AIADMK	[12][8]
1	Odisha	Shashi Bhusan Behera		BJD	Bhupinder Singh		BJD	[8][13]
2	Rabinarayan Mohapatra	A U Singh Deo	[8][13]
1	Haryana	Ch. Birender Singh		INC	Ch. Birender Singh		BJP	[14]
2	Ranbir Singh Prajapati		INLD	Suresh Prabhu	[14]

Andhra Pradesh

#	State	Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Reference[4]
1	Andhra Pradesh	N. Janardhana Reddy		INC	Nirmala Sitharaman		BJP	[7][6][8]

Bihar

Seat No	State	Previous MP	Previous Party		Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference[4]
1	Bihar	Rajiv Pratap Rudy		BJP	Sharad Yadav		JD(U)	[9][6]
2		Ram Kripal Yadav		RJD	Pavan Kumar Varma			[9][6]
3	Ram Vilas Paswan		LJP	Gulam Rasool Balyawi	[9][6]

Notes

1. Ghulam Nabi Azad was elected Leader of the Indian National Congress, on June 8, 2014, succeeding Dr. Manmohan Singh.

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