Rajya Sabha Election Results 2022: Congress sweeps Rajasthan; BJP wins 3 in Karnataka and Cong bags 1

The elections to fill 57 vacant Rajya Sabha (Upper House) seats were held on Friday. The contest was shortened to 16 seats in four states — Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Haryana and Karnataka — after 41 members in 11 states were elected unopposed. The Election Commission has appointed special observers and ordered videography of the entire exercise.

The counting of votes for the Rajya Sabha elections was delayed on Friday in Maharashtra and Haryana over alleged violation of rules, officials said.

The counting was held up in Maharashtra after opposition BJP alleged three MLAs of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA)--Cabinet ministers Jitendra Awhad (NCP) and Yashomati Thakur (Congress), besides Shiv Sena legislator Suhas Kande violated the model code for voting.


Here is how the election played itself out-

-BJP won three out of the four seats in the Rajya Sabha polls in Karnataka while the Congress bagged the fourth seat.
- .Congress sweeps Rajasthan
- Randeep Singh Surjewala, Pramod Tiwari and Mukul Wasnik won for the Congress whereas Ghanshyam Tiwari bagged the fourth seat for the BJP.
- BJP has won three seats in Nirmala Sitharaman, Jaggesh and Lehar Singh while the Congress has managed to send Jairam Ramesh to the RS. The JDS failed to secure victory for its only candidate.