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Rajya Sabha

Rajya Sabha is the upper house of the Indian Parliament. It has a maximum of 250 members who are elected indirectly by state legislative assemblies rather than directly by the people. One-third of its members retire every two years, and it is a permanent body not subject to dissolution. Twelve members are nominated by the President. At present there are 245 members representing states and union territories. Elections for one-third of seats happen every two years using the single transferable vote system where voters rank candidates by preference.

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Rajya Sabha

Rajya Sabha is the upper house of the Indian Parliament. It has a maximum of 250 members who are elected indirectly by state legislative assemblies rather than directly by the people. One-third of its members retire every two years, and it is a permanent body not subject to dissolution. Twelve members are nominated by the President. At present there are 245 members representing states and union territories. Elections for one-third of seats happen every two years using the single transferable vote system where voters rank candidates by preference.

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ELECTION PROCESS : RAJYA

SABHA

SUBMITTED BY : VASUDHA THAPA


SHRADHA CHANDAN
Rajya Sabha, also known as the Council of States, is the Upper
House of Parliament. It has not more than 250 members.
Members of Rajya Sabha are not elected by the people directly
but indirectly by the legislative assemblies of the various states.

Rajya Sabha is a permanent body. It is not subject to dissolution


but one-third of its members retire every two years. Twelve of
Rajya Sabha members are nominated by the President from
persons who have earned distinction in the fields of literature,
art, science and social service.
At present, there are 245 members in Rajya Sabha, distributed
among different states and Union Territories, out of which 233
are representatives of the states and Union territories of Delhi
and Puducherry and 12 are nominated by the President.

Every state is allotted a certain number of members. No


member of Rajya Sabha can be under 30 years of age. The
allocation of seats is made on the basis of the population of
each State. Based on the reorganisation of states and birth of
new States, the number of elected seats allotted to States and
Union Territories also changes.
Elections to one-third of these seats happen every two years.
Members of a state's legislative assembly vote in the Rajya
Sabha elections in what is called the proportional representation
with the single transferable vote (STV) system. Each voter's
vote is counted only once.

To win a Rajya Sabha seat, a candidate should get a required


number of votes. A candidate requires one-fourth of the total
number of votes plus one to get elected. Each voter ranks his
preferences and if the first choice candidate has enough votes
already or no chance of being elected, the vote is transferred to
the second choice and so on.
The number of elected seats in the Rajya
Sabha allotted to States and Union Territories.
Name of State No. of Seats Name of State No. of Seats

Andhra Pradesh 18 Meghalaya 1


Arunachal Pradesh 1 Mizoram 1
Assam 7 Nagaland 1
Bihar 16 National Capital Territory (Delhi) 3
Chhattisgarh 5
Nominated 12
Goa 1
Odisha 10
Gujarat 11
Pondicherry 1
Haryana 5
Punjab 7
Himachal Pradesh 3
Rajasthan 10
Jammu & Kashmir 4
Jharkhand6 Sikkim 1
Karnataka12 Tamil Nadu 18
Kerala 9 Tripura 1
Madhya Pradesh 11 Uttar Pradesh 31
Maharashtra 19 Uttarakhand 3
Manipur 1 West Bengal 16
The Vice President of India is the ex-officio chairman of Rajya
Sabha. He is elected by the members of an electoral college
consisting of members of both Houses of Parliament. Rajya
Sabha also elects one of its members to be the Deputy
Chairman.
Elections to Rajya sabha are conducted every 2 years. The quota
for each state is fixed as per Schedule 4 of the constitution.
Elections to 1/3 rd of these seats occur every 2 years.

Suppose the election is for 10 seats and for simplicity let us


assume there are only 2 parties. Of 100 seats in Legislative
Assembly suppose Party X has 80 seats and Party Y has 20
seats.Both party fields 10 candidates each i.e. in total 20
candidates are fielded!

To win a candidate must acquire following number of votes :


Quotient of ( Number of MLAs/(No. of seats contested + 1)) + 1.

For our case, a candidate requires :


(100/(10+1)) + 1 = 10 votes to win.
ELECTION PROCESS :
Members dont vote for each seat. If that had been the case then
only the ruling party representatives will make it through . Rather,
they are given a paper with the names of all 20 candidates. They
have to give their preferences for each candidate as 1,2,3,.....so on
till 20. If 10 or more members choose a candidate as their first
choice, he gets elected. So the opposition with 20 seats can get 2
members elected .
The ruling party on the other hand can get only 8 members elected
(with 80 MLAs giving 10 votes each to their party candidate). Thus 2
candidate
SINGLE TRANSFERABLE
of party X andVOTE
8 candidates
: of party Y are redundant

Only option no.1 will be counted as the vote. But if the requisite
number of
candidates do not get elected in this process, the candidate
with the minimum no. of votes (members putting him as no.1)
will be eliminated. The votes of these members will now be
transferred to their respective second choices (ones marked as
no.2).We use the same system for election of the President of
India.

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