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Rajya Sabha elections were held in India in 2015 to elect eight members of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. Five by-elections were also held. The regular elections were held to fill seats in the States of Jammu and Kashmir, [1] Kerala, [2] and the Union Territory of Pondicherry. [3]
Jammu and Kashmir had an election on 7 February 2015. [1]
Seat No | Previous MP | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Reference | ||
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1 | Ghulam Nabi Azad | Indian National Congress | Ghulam Nabi Azad | Indian National Congress | [4] | ||
2 | Saifuddin Soz | Shamsheer Singh Manhas | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||||
3 | G. N. Ratanpuri | Jammu & Kashmir National Conference | Fayaz Ahmad Mir | Jammu & Kashmir People's Democratic Party | |||
4 | Mohammad Shafi | Nazir Ahmad Laway |
Kerala was supposed to have an election on 16 April 2015. [2] But, the election was postponed to 20 April. [5]
Seat No | Previous MP | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | Reference | ||
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1 | M. P. Achuthan | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | K.K. Ragesh | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | [6] | ||
2 | P Rajeev | P. V. Abdul Wahab | Indian Union Muslim League | ||||
3 | Vayalar Ravi | Indian National Congress | Vayalar Ravi | Indian National Congress |
Pondicherry held the election on 28 September 2015 to elect one Member of Parliament. [3]
Seat No | Previous MP | Previous Party | Elected MP | Elected Party | ||
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1 | P. Kannan | Indian National Congress | N Gokulakrishnan | All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |
The following bye-elections were also held in 2015.
Sr No | State | Previous MP | Party | Reference | Elected MP | Party | Reference | ||
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1 | Maharashtra | Murli Deora | Congress | [7] | Amar Shankar Sable | BJP | [8] | ||
2 | Uttarakhand | Manorama Dobriyal Sharma | Raj Babbar | Congress | |||||
3 | West Bengal | Srinjoy Bose | Trinamool Congress | Dola Sen | Trinamool Congress | ||||
4 | Jharkhand | Kanwar Deep Singh | JMM | [9] | M. J. Akbar | BJP | [10] | ||
5 | Odisha | Kalpataru Das | BJD | [11] | Narendra Kumar Swain | BJD | [12] |
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