2020 Rajya Sabha elections

2020 Rajya Sabha elections
April – December 2020
78 of the 233 elected seats in the Rajya Sabha
122 total seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Thawar Chand Gehlot Ghulam Nabi Azad
Party BJP INC
Alliance NDA UPA
Leader since 11 June 2019 8 June 2014
Seats before 75 44
Seats after 85 36
Seat change 10 8
Alliance seats before 99 62
Alliance seats after 107 59
Seat change 8 3
Majority before election

None

 Majority after
election

None

2020 Rajya Sabha elections were 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 72 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.

On 2 November 2020, Election commission of India declared unopposed victory over 10 seats of Uttar Pradesh and 1 seat of Uttarakhand.


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