2014 Rajya Election Results Feb 07,2014

The Rajya Sabha has 250 members; 12 of them are nominated by the President and the rest are representatives of the states and union territories and are elected by members of the legislative assemblies for six year terms.

Unlike the Lok Sabha, the upper house is never dissolved. Elections are held to one-third of its seats every second year.

 Election Commission of India(ECI)announced election for 55 Rajya Sabha seats to be held on Feb 07,2014

37 Candidates elected unopposed 

Maharashtra - 7 Seats
Sharad Pawar(NCP)Murali Deora(Congress)Majid Memon (NCP), Hussain Dalwai (Congress), Rajkumar Dhoot (Shiv Sena), Sanjay Kakade (Independent) and Athavale, who was supported by BJP.

Rajasthan - 3 Seats
Vijay Goel,BJP Delhi unit chief,Ram Narain Dudi(BJP) and Narain Pachariy(BJP)

Bihar - 5 Seats
JD(U)'s Ramnath Thakur, Harivansh, Kahkasha Parveen and
BJP's C P Thakur and R K Sinha

Tamil Nadu - 6 Seats
AIADMK -L Sasikala Pushpa, Vijila Satyananth, S Muthukaruppan and AK Selvaraj
DMK -Tiruchi N Siva
CPI(M) - T K Rangarajan


Gujarat - 4 Seats
BJP's Shambhuprasad Tundiya, Chunibhai Gohil and Lalsinh Vadodiya and
Congress's Madhusudan Mistry

Haryana - 2 Seats
Former Union Minister Kumari Selja of Congress and
Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) candidate Ram Kumar Kashyap

Madhya Pradesh  -3 Seats
Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh
BJP vice-president Prabhat Jha and party leader Satya Narayan Jatiya

Jharkhand - 2 Seats
Former Union Minister Prem Chand Gupta of RJD and sitting MP Parimal Nathwani

Congress candidates Abdul Salam (Manipur), sitting MP Wansuk Syiem (Meghalaya) and Viplov Thakur (Himchal Pradesh)

Chhattisgarh  -2 Seats
AICC treasurer Motilal Vora and the nephew of late Dilip Singh Judeo, Ranvijay Pratap Singh Judeo

Elected Candidates on Poll held on Feb 07,2014 -18 Seats

Andhra Pradesh 

• Subbarami Reddy, Ramachandra Rao and MA Khan of the Congress, 

• T Sitarama Lakshmi and G Mohan Rao of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and 

• Keshava Rao of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS)

were the 6 candidates elected

Assam

Sultanpur MP Sanjay Singh and Bhubaneswar Kalita, the party's state unit chief of Congress and

Bodoland People's Front

were the 3 candidates elected

West Bengal

Bollywood actor Mithun Chakraborty, artist Jogen Chowdhury, industrialist KD Singh and journalist Ahmed Hasan Imran of Trinamool Congress(TMC)and

Ritabrata Banerjee of CPI(M)

were the 5 candidates elected

In West Bengal(Total 294 Assembly Seats) from where five upper house seats filled, there is high drama with allegations of horse-trading and even abduction.TMC has 184 seats;Congress 42 Seats 

 Odisha

 Kalpataru Das,  Sarojini Hembram and  Ananga Udaya Singh Deo of BJD and

Ranjib Biswal of Congress

were the 4 candidates elected

In what could be an embarrassment for BJD chief and Orissa CM Naveen Patnaik, sculptor Ragunath Mohapatra failed to get elected as an Independent candidate sponsored by the BJD despite BJP’s support. While all three BJD candidates got elected, it was opposition Congress’s Ranjib Biswal who won the fourth seat as Ragunath Mohapatra failed