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 73 seats of which 55 of them were to be elected by March 26.^[1] 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.^[2]

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2020 Rajya Sabha elections

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79 seats in the Rajya Sabha[lower-alpha 1]

Party Leader Seats +/– BJP Thawar Chand Gehlot 32 +10 INC Ghulam Nabi Azad 9 −8 AITC Derek O' Brien 4 0 BJD Sasmit Patra 4 +1 YSRCP V. Vijayasai Reddy 4 +4 DMK Tiruchi Siva 3 +1 AIADMK A. Navaneethakrishnan 2 −1 JD(U) Ram Nath Thakur 2 −1 NCP Sharad Pawar 2 0 RJD Prem Chand Gupta 2 +2 TRS K. Keshava Rao 2 +2 BSP Satish Mishra 1 −1 BPF Biswajit Daimary 1 0 CPI(M) Elamaram Kareem 1 +1 JD(S) D. Kupendra Reddy 1 0 JMM - 1 +1 LJD - 1 +1 MNF - 1 +1 NPP - 1 +1 RPI(A) Ramdas Athawale 1 +1 SP Ram Gopal Yadav 1 −3 SHS Sanjay Raut 1 0 TMC(M) - 1 +1 Independent - 1 −2 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

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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.^[3][4]

On 2 November 2020, Election commission of India declared unopposed victory over 10 seats of Uttar Pradesh and 1 seat of Uttarakhand.^[5][6]

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• Listed According Date Of Retirement