Rajya Sabha election: Full list of winners — Sonia Gandhi, JP Nadda, Sagarika Ghose among others elected unopposed

Here is the full list of winners for the 56 seats of Rajya Sabha

Congress's Sonia Gandhi and BJP national president JP Nadda have been elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha (Express File Photo)

The elections to 15 seats of Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka are underway. Last week, as many as 41 candidates were declared winners as there were no other candidates in the fray on those seats.

The biennial elections for the 56 seats were necessitated as 50 members will complete their term on April 2 and six will retire on April 3.

In Uttar Pradesh, 10 seats are up for grabs — with BJP expected to win seven of them. In Karnataka, there are five candidates in the fray for four seats, while in Himachal, Congress has the numbers to win the lone Rajya Sabha seat.

Here’s a full list of winners:

Name	Party	State
G Babu Rao	YSR Congress	Andhra Pradesh
Y V Subba Reddy	YSR Congress	Andhra Pradesh
M Raghunath Reddy	YSR Congress	Andhra Pradesh
Sanjay Kumar Jha	JD(U)	Bihar
Dharmshila Gupta	BJP	Bihar
Bhim Singh	BJP	Bihar
Manoj Kumar Jha	RJD	Bihar
Sanjay Yadav	RJD	Bihar
Akhilesh Prasad Singh	Congress	Bihar
Devendra Pratap Singh	BJP	Chhattisgarh
JP Nadda	BJP	Gujarat
Jasvantsinh Parmar	BJP	Gujarat
Mayank Nayak	BJP	Gujarat
Govindbhai Dholakia	BJP	Gujarat
Subhash Barala	BJP	Haryana
Murugan	BJP	Madhya Pradesh
Umesh Nath Maharaj	BJP	Madhya Pradesh
Banshilal Gurjar	BJP	Madhya Pradesh
Maya Naroliya	BJP	Madhya Pradesh
Ashok Chavan	BJP	Maharashtra
Medha Kulkarni	BJP	Maharashtra
Ajit Gopchhade	BJP	Maharashtra
Milind Deora	Shiv Sena	Maharashtra
Praful Patel	NCP	Maharashtra
Chandrakant Handore	Congress	Maharashtra
Ashwini Vaishnaw	BJP	Odisha
Debashish Samantray	BJD	Odisha
Subhashish Khuntia	BJD	Odisha
Sonia Gandhi	Congress	Rajasthan
Chunnilal Garasiya	BJP	Rajasthan
Madan Rathore	BJP	Rajasthan
Renuka Chowdhury	Congress	Telangana
Anil Kumar Yadav	Congress	Telangana
V Ravichandra	BRS	Telangana
Mahendra Bhatt	BJP	Uttarakhand
Sushmita Dev	TMC	West Bengal
Sagarika Ghose	TMC	West Bengal
Mamata Thakur	TMC	West Bengal
Md Nadimul Haque	TMC	West Bengal
Samik Bhattacharya	BJP	West Bengal
Harsh Mahajan	BJP	Himachal Pradesh
Ajay Maken	Congress	Karnataka
Syed Nasir Hussain	Congress	Karnataka
G C Chandrashekar	Congress	Karnataka
Narayansa Bhadage	Congress	Karnataka
Jaya Bachchan	Samajwadi Party	Uttar Pradesh
Ramji Lal Suman	Samajwadi Party	Uttar Pradesh
Naveen Jain	BJP	Uttar Pradesh
R P N Singh	BJP	Uttar Pradesh
Sadhana Singh	BJP	Uttar Pradesh
Chaudhary Tejveer Singh	BJP	Uttar Pradesh
Sudhanshu Trivedi	BJP	Uttar Pradesh
Sanjay Seth	BJP	Uttar Pradesh
Amarpal Maurya	BJP	Uttar Pradesh
Sangeeta Balwant	BJP	Uttar Pradesh

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