2025 Rajya Sabha elections

The 2025 Rajya Sabha elections were held as part of a routine six-year cycle of the upper house of the Parliament of India from 19 June to 24 October 2025 to elect 14 of its 245 members (including 2 by-elections), of which the states through their legislators elect 233, and the remaining 12 are appointed by the President.

2025 Rajya Sabha elections

← 2024 June - October 2025 2026 →
14 of the 233 elected seats in the Rajya Sabha 123 total seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Leader J. P. Nadda Mallikarjun Kharge Party BJP INC Alliance NDA INDIA Leader since 24 June 2024 16 February 2021 Seats before 96 27 Seats after 98 27 Seat change 2 Alliance seats before 119 77 Alliance seats after 121 80 Seat change 2 3
Majority before election National Democratic Alliance Majority after election National Democratic Alliance

The ruling National Democratic Alliance retained its majority in the house.

Results

Alliance/ Party				Seats	+/–
					NDA		Bharatiya Janata Party	3	+2
	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	2	+1
	Asom Gana Parishad	1	0
	Pattali Makkal Katchi	0	-1
Total		6	+2
	INDIA		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	3	0
			Jammu & Kashmir National Conference	3	+3
			Makkal Needhi Maiam	1	+1
			Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	0	-1
		Total		7	+3
	Others		Aam Aadmi Party	1	0
			Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party	0	-1

Elections

Assam

#	Previous MP			Term end	Elected MP	Party		Term start
1	Mission Ranjan Das		BJP	14-Jun-2025	Kanad Purkayastha		BJP	15-Jun-2025
2	Birendra Prasad Baishya		AGP		Birendra Prasad Baishya		AGP

Tamil Nadu

#	Previous MP	Previous Party		Term end	Elected MP	Party		Term start
1	N. Chandrasegharan		AIADMK	24 July 2025	M. Dhanapal		AIADMK	25 July 2025
2	Anbumani Ramadoss		PMK		I. S. Inbadurai
3	M. M. Abdulla		DMK		Salma		DMK
4	M. Shanmugam				S. R. Sivalingam
5	P. Wilson				P. Wilson
6	Vaiko		MDMK		Kamal Haasan		MNM

Jammu and Kashmir

#	Previous MP	Party		Vacancy date	Elected MP	Party		Term start
1	Vacant (Shamsheer Singh Manhas)			10-Feb-2021	Chowdhary Mohammad Ramzan		JKNC	25-Oct-2025
2	Vacant (Fayaz Ahmad Mir)				Sajjad Ahmad Kichloo
3	Vacant (Nazir Ahmad Laway)			15-Feb-2021	Gurvinder Singh Oberoi
4	Vacant (Ghulam Nabi Azad)				Sat Paul Sharma		BJP

By-elections

Andhra Pradesh

#	Previous MP	Party		Vacancy date	Elected MP	Party		Term start
1	V. Vijayasai Reddy		YSRCP	25-Jan-2025	P. Venkata Satyanarayana		BJP	9-May-2025

Punjab

#	Previous MP	Party		Vacancy date	Elected MP	Party		Term start
1	Sanjeev Arora		AAP	1-July-2025	Rajinder Gupta		AAP	17-Oct-2025

Nominations

#	Previous MP	Affiliation		Nominated MP	Affiliation		Field	Term start	Nominated by	Reference
1	Sonal Mansingh		BJP	Meenakshi Jain		NOM	Literature and Education	13-July-2025	Droupadi Murmu
2	Ram Shakal			Harsh Vardhan Shringla		BJP	Diplomacy
3	Rakesh Sinha			Ujjwal Nikam			Law
4	Mahesh Jethmalani			C. Sadanandan Master			Social work

Notes

1. Including two casual vacancies
2. excluding 12 nominated seats
3. out of 244 (excluding one vacancy and including 12 nominated seats)
4. excluding two nominated members
5. excluding 5 nominated members
6. excluding 8 nominated members
7. excluding 12 nominated members
8. including the support of 8 nominated members
9. including the support of 12 nominated members