Rajya Sabha Elections 2018: Full List of State-Wise Winning Candidates
BJP emerged as the maximum gainer, sending 27 nominees to the Upper House.
New Delhi, Mar 24: Elections to the 59 seats of Rajya Sabha were held on Friday. While 33 candidates were elected unopposed, a contest was witnessed for the remaining 26 berths in the Parliament's Upper House. The parties whose candidates were deployed in the fray had tasked their assembly chief whips and state-unit in-charge to prevent defection from their ranks.
The polls were marred with controversy in Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka, where at least two MLAs each cross-voted in favour of the BJP.
BJP emerged as maximum gainer in this round of the polls, sending a total of 27 nominees to the Upper House, followed by Congress, whose 10 MPs were elected.
Rajya Sabha Elections 2018: Full List of State-Wise Winners
| State | Candidate | Party | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andhra Pradesh | CM Ramesh | TDP | Won |
| Andhra Pradesh | Kanakamedala Ravindra Kumar | TDP | Won |
| Andhra Pradesh | Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy | YSRCP | Won |
| Bihar | Ahmad Ashfaque Karim | RJD | Won |
| Bihar | Akhilesh Prasad Singh | INC | Won |
| Bihar | Bashishtha Narayan Singh | JD(U) | Won |
| Bihar | Mahendra Prasad | JD(U) | Won |
| Bihar | Manoj Kumar Jha | RJD | Won |
| Bihar | Ravi Shankar Prasad | BJP | Won |
| Chhattisgarh | Saroj Pandey | BJP | Won |
| Chhattisgarh | Lekhram Sahu | INC | Awaited |
| Gujarat | Parshottam Rupala | BJP | Won |
| Gujarat | Mansukh Mandaviya | BJP | Won |
| Gujarat | Naran Rathwa | INC | Won |
| Gujarat | Amee Yajnik | INC | Won |
| Haryana | Devender Paul Vats | BJP | Won |
| Himachal Pradesh | JP Nadda | BJP | Won |
| Jharkhand | Sameer Uranv | BJP | Won |
| Jharkhand | Pradeep Kumar Sonthalia | BJP | Awaited |
| Jharkhand | Dheeraj Sahu | INC | Won |
| Karnataka | GC Chandrashekar | INC | Won |
| Karnataka | BM Farooq | JD(S) | Awaited |
| Karnataka | Rajeev Chandrasekhar | BJP | Won |
| Karnataka | Syed Nasir Hussain | INC | Won |
| Karnataka | L Hanumanthaiah | INC | Won |
| Kerala | Babu Prasad | INC | Awaited |
| Kerala | MP Veerendra Kumar | Ind | Won |
| Madhya Pradesh | Ajay Pratap Singh | BJP | Won |
| Madhya Pradesh | Kailash Soni | BJP | Won |
| Madhya Pradesh | Thawarchand Gehlot | BJP | Won |
| Madhya Pradesh | Dharmendra Pradhan | BJP | Won |
| Madhya Pradesh | Rajmani Patel | INC | Won |
| Maharashtra | Anil Desai | SS | Won |
| Maharashtra | Vandana Chavan | NCP | Won |
| Maharashtra | Prakash Javadekar | BJP | Won |
| Maharashtra | V Muraleedharan | BJP | Won |
| Maharashtra | Narayan Rane | BJP | Won |
| Maharashtra | Kumar Ketkar | INC | Won |
| Odisha | Achyuta Samanta | BJD | Won |
| Odisha | Prashanta Nanda | BJD | Won |
| Odisha | Soumya Ranjan Patnaik | BJD | Won |
| Rajasthan | Kirodi Lal | BJP | Won |
| Rajasthan | Bhupender Yadav | BJP | Won |
| Rajasthan | Madanlal Saini | BJP | Won |
| Telangana | Banda Prakash | TRS | Won |
| Telangana | P Balram | INC | Awaited |
| Telangana | Joginipally Santhosh Kumar | TRS | Won |
| Telangana | B Lingaiah Yadav | TRS | Won |
| Uttar Pradesh | Anil Agrawal | BJP | Won |
| Uttar Pradesh | Anil Kumar Jain | BJP | Won |
| Uttar Pradesh | Arun Jaitely | BJP | Won |
| Uttar Pradesh | Ashok Bajpayi | BJP | Won |
| Uttar Pradesh | Bheem Rao Ambedkar | BSP | Awaited |
| Uttar Pradesh | GVL Narasimha Rao | BJP | Won |
| Uttar Pradesh | Harnath Singh Yadao | BJP | Won |
| Uttar Pradesh | Kanta Kadam | BJP | Won |
| Uttar Pradesh | Sakaldeep | BJP | Won |
| Uttar Pradesh | Vijaypal Singh | BJP | Won |
| Uttar Pradesh | Jaya Bachchan | SP | Won |
| Uttarakhand | Anil Baluni | BJP | Won |
| West Bengal | Abhishek Manu Singhvi | INC | Won |
| West Bengal | Abir Ranjan Biswas | AITC | Won |
| West Bengal | Md. Nadimul Haque | AITC | Won |
| West Bengal | Rabin Deb | CPI(M) | Awaited |
| West Bengal | Santanu Sen | AITC | Won |
| West Bengal | Subhasish Chakraborty | AITC | Won |
The BSP's lone candidate in the fray, Bhim Rao Ambedkar, was stalled from entering the Rajya Sabha as a couple of MLAs from the SP-BSP combine voted in favour of the BJP. In his place, the saffron party succeeded in getting its ninth nominee - businessman Anil Agarwal - elected through second preference votes.
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