Rajya Sabha poll results: list of winners

June 12, 2016 02:41 am | Updated November 17, 2021 05:08 am IST

In the 27 seats spread across seven states that were up for grabs on Saturday, 11 went to the BJP, six to the Congress, seven to the Samajwadi Party, two to the BSP and one to Independent candidate. Thirty of the 57 seats in the current round of biennial elections were decided without contest last week.

Here are the winners:

CandidatePartyState
Birender SinghBJPHaryana
Subhash ChandraBJPHaryana
M.J. AkbarBJPMadhya Pradesh
Anil Madhav DaveBJPMadhya Pradesh
Vivek TankhaCongressCongress
M. Venkaiah NaiduBJPRajasthan
Om Prakash MathurBJPRajasthan
Harshvardhan SinghBJPRajasthan
Ramkumar VermaBJPRajasthan
Mukhtar Abbas NaqviBJPJharkhand
Mahesh PodaarBJPJharkhand
Nirmala SitharamanBJPKarnataka
Oscar Fernandes, andCongressKarnataka
Jairam RameshCongressKarnataka
K.C. RamamurthyCongressKarnataka
Amar SinghSamajwadi PartyUttar Pradesh
Beni Prasad VermaSamajwadi PartyUttar Pradesh
Sanjay SethSamajwadi PartyUttar Pradesh
Reoti Raman SinghSamajwadi PartyUttar Pradesh
Sukhram YadavSamajwadi PartyUttar Pradesh
Surender NagarSamajwadi PartyUttar Pradesh
Vishambhar Prasad NishadSamajwadi PartyUttar Pradesh
Satish MishraBSPUttar Pradesh
Ashok SiddharthaBSPUttar Pradesh
Shiv Pratap ShuklaBJPUttar Pradesh
Kapil SibalCongressUttar Pradesh
Pradeep TamtaCongressUttarakhand

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